IN the preface to the former volume, the author related how he had been encouraged and enabled to undertake the publication of the present Work by the munificent assistance of the late Hon. Joseph Jardine, Esq. He has now to record another instance of generosity, in connection with it, on the part of another of the merchant-princes of this island. By an arrangement with the Hon. John Dent, Esq., the volumes will be sold at half price to missionaries;—to Protestant and to Roman Catholic missionaries equally.

In issuing the Works of Mencius, the author is glad to refer to the translation of them, published by Stanislaus Julien, in Paris, 1824-1829. He is not conscious of much obligation to it, because his own version was made in the first place without having seen it, and the plan of his notes differs materially from that of Julien's commentary. He has hardly ever consulted it, however, without finding reason to admire the nice discrimination and accurate scholarship of the translator. The wish has often arisen that Monsieur Julien had spent his life in China, and devoted himself exclusively to Chinese studies;-in which case the author would probably not have had occasion for his present toil.