Evening Star Newspaper, December 29, 1926, Page 20

20 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1926. . ing the time of all the assistants, it | | ginning to appreciate its true worth |the twelfth century when Marco Polo | manuscript coples of this work now nue, Detroit, Mich., was found dead ) calculated that about 10,000 years of | Consequently no efforts are being | \isited it and called it the most beau- | are known in China. Several valuable AIHSHAFT PLUNGE FATAL at the foot of an air shaft at the RAPERY MATERIAL labor were given by scholars and | spared to enlarge the collection with | tiful city in the world. Chinese works were sent as a gift Abingd s Hotel terda: scribes o putting this monumenta | rare and valuable books. The most important single Chinese | during the year from T. L. Yuan, |Man Commits Suicide on Eve ot|APInsdon Sauare THotel yesterday. At Big Savings All §ilk Tmported Pongee. work in shape. Some 8,000 year: | During the past year 2,891 volumes | vvork acquired during the year is the | librarian of the Metropolitan Library . | at Peking, who spent three Summers Sailing for Germany. Edenhoefer registered at the hotel | 4o inch’ French Marquisette, k. m"- more of labor wero spent in copyin: | were added. The outstanding acqulsl | chuan tang pel tau, in 20 volumes and proof reading. jtion was 359 volumes of Chinese | 'he famous work, which dates from | working on the Chinese books in the yesterday and was assigned to a goown | 30-inen Sunfamt "\L e ok e thought to have been | medlcal works -purchased from Dr. | tae midale of the thirtsenth century, | Library of Congress. One is a chrons. | NEW YORK, December 20 UP.—On | |\ %0 P oiyin foor. Today his Fodv, | e Surtuat Lelon Police listed the death’ as sulcide. lost when the Han Lin College at| Percy T. Watson. The library also |11 & botanical encyclopedia of great | logical table of Chinese history, with the eve of salling for Germany, a pass P e o horned during the Boxe | secured a gazeteor, in 50 volumes, of | i1terest not only to scientists but to | corresponding dates in the Gregorian, | port Indicated, George Edenhoefer, 5 | 1Y dressed, was found at the bottor: War. A few volumes were rescuec | Hangchow, the capital of China in'etudents of Chinese letters. Onlv |.jullan and Mohammedan calendars. !years old, of 2430 Jose Campen ave- of an air shaft. o . . e i i s by the col Oriental Collcction Housed in| feee. oiiciaie and by gaests at the | S : #er nearby legations. I envv»:;hl‘flmggurg} %2227, 2% The Julius Lansburgh Furniture Co., 909 F St. 22227 whether many o s werd Library HereA Held burned, but a good many of them : have been lost. - Largest in U. S. sty S SIS I Each volume contains two or threc Vi i popular 1 books and is bound in reddish yellow | 2 s of the |silk. The writing is clear and legible Chinese ¢ 3 The complete work, it is estimated There n would fill about a seventh of a mil: largest 3 ry outside of | of floor space, standing two feet high Chi John C Kwei |and one foot deep. se collections at| The Library of Congress comtain: ° P who is examin- | one complete Chinese encyclopedia, a all ‘7 Oor am es an leces a rea e uce rlces re volumes and | gift from the Chinese government % A al division | which includes more than 3,000 books This is printed. It is a later_anc more serviceable work than the Yung < Lo ta tien, but 1s far from belng as such an inc ec the | valuable. There are, Mr. Kwei ex Chinese cl; e i sl plained, three great encyclopedias In ophy. £ . ateris the Chinese language, which are pre gather S sumed to cover the whole field of n China. | Oriental knowledge at the time they e manu- | were written. 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