. Review of reviews and world's work. ung Yu (Jadeand Iron), depicting the love of two young peo-ple, almost platonic in its purity; the TsaiShang Yuan (Destined to Wed Again), a met-rical romance full of plot and fine description ;the Yu Chiao Li (Beautiful Cousins), twoyoung ladies whom a student loved and mar-ried ; the Erh Tou Mei (Twice-FloweringPlum Trees) ; the Ping, Shan, Leng, You,which are the names of four young people wholoved and married ; and Hung Lou Meng(Dreams of the Red Chamber), which is consid-ered a work as touching the highest point ofdevelopment reached by the Chinese no
. Review of reviews and world's work. ung Yu (Jadeand Iron), depicting the love of two young peo-ple, almost platonic in its purity; the TsaiShang Yuan (Destined to Wed Again), a met-rical romance full of plot and fine description ;the Yu Chiao Li (Beautiful Cousins), twoyoung ladies whom a student loved and mar-ried ; the Erh Tou Mei (Twice-FloweringPlum Trees) ; the Ping, Shan, Leng, You,which are the names of four young people wholoved and married ; and Hung Lou Meng(Dreams of the Red Chamber), which is consid-ered a work as touching the highest point ofdevelopment reached by the Chinese class of novels forms the favorite readingof the women of the upper classes. Of the religious novels,—those dealing withgods, goddesses, and superhuman agencies,—the Hsi Yu Chi (Record of Travels to theWest) is best known. It is based upon thejourney of Hsuan Tsang, of the Tang dynasty,who went to India in search of books, images,and relics to illustrate the Buddhist - Shin Shea Chi (Battle of the Gods) is a. MR. LIANG-CH1-CHAO. (The most famous living Chineseauthor and editor.) novel extolling the wonderful power and influ-ence of the Taoist gods. It was written withthe avowed purpose of rivaling the Hsi YuChi (Converts to Christianity). Catholics, es-pecially, are not allowed to read such works,and instead read Pilgrims Progress, whichhas been well translated into easy in bulk to the novels of love and ro-mance are the nov-els of Shui Hu isa work on the brig-ands of the twelfthcentury. Some ofthe situations arevery laughable, andthe work is valu-able for the insightgiven of the man-ners and customsof that period ; the Ching HwaYuandeals with a younggraduate who, dis-gusted with thepolicy of the Em-press Woo H o u( 684—706), went on a voyage of Shan Hai Ching (Stories of StrangeLands) is on the order of Gullivers the plays which are widely read maybe mentioned the Pi Pa Chi (Story of theGuita
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