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ADDITIONAL NOTE.

As my readers will have seen from the Preface, I originally proposed to make a selection of Wang Ch`ung's Essays, and to translate only 44, i. e. the philosophical ones, being in my opinion the more important. Some of the leading sinologues having pointed out to me the desirability of having a complete version of Wang Ch`ung's work, I now have changed my mind, and am going to translate the essays left out likewise. They will, later on, be published as "Lun-Hêng,Part II, Miscellaneous Essays," in contradistinction to the present volume, which I now call "Lun-Hêng, Part I, Philosophical Essays of Wang Ch ung." The whole work will also appear, later on, in the "Mitteilungen des Seminars für Orientalische Sprachen," probably in 5 parts. The first was already published last year, under the title "Selected Essays of the Philosopher Wang Ch`ung." I am very much indebted to Geheimrat Sachau, Director of the Seminar für Orientalische Sprachen, for kindly having undertaken the publishing of this voluminous work.

Berlin,April 1907.

A. Forke.

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