HENRY FROWDE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE AMEN CORNER, E.C. New York MACMILLAN & Co., 66 FIFTh avenue THE WITH A TRANSLATION, CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES, BY JAMES LEGGE PROFESSOR OF CHINESE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD IN SEVEN VOLUMES SECOND EDITION, REVISED VOL. II CONTAINING THE WORKS OF MENCIUS Oxford AT THE CLARENDON PRESS M5 1865 v. 2 578565 為逆志以害不 Mencius, V. Pt. I. iv. 2. 中華民國二十八年影印 REPRINTED IN CHINA 1939 THE reader is referred to what is said in the Preface to Volume I as to how the author was led to undertake the translation of the Chinese Classics, and how he was assisted in the preparation and publication of his earlier volumes by the late Hon. Joseph Jardine, Esq., and after his death by his brother, who is now Sir Robert Jardine, Baronet. When this second volume was ready for the press in 1861, another merchant-prince of China, the late Hon. John Dent, Esq., with a similar generosity, presented a considerable sum to the author, in order that the successive volumes might be sold to missionaries at a much reduced price. And this was done till the amount of his gift was more than exhausted;—to missionaries, without distinction of nationality or creed. The last sale of this kind, it may be stated, was to a missionary in Korea, where at present, we may suppose, all missionary labours are suspended. Of Volume II, as of Volume I, an edition of a thousand copies was printed. Both of these volumes being exhausted, it was necessary to publish new editions of them, which the Delegates of the Clarendon Press undertook to do. The same care has been taken in the printing of this second volume as in that of the former one, and the same alterations adopted in transliterating the pronunciation of Chinese characters. OXFORD, October, 1894. J. L. |