One l of the world’s greatest literary undertakings never saw the I'fflit of print. This was the stupendous encyclopaedia planned by the Chinese Einneror Yun" ho. It- was compl'dod in 14051. and consisted of the original manuscript and two conies. It covered the whole ranro of Chinese learning, and ran to nearly a million pages. Th,' original and one copy perished at Nankin" on the downfall of the Ming dynasty? The remaining copy, consisting of no fewer than 11 .ICO volumes ‘2O inches long, 12 inches in breadth, and half-an-inch thick, and bound in yellow silk, wa.s destroyed during the siege of the legations in Peking in 1900.
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Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 120, 6 February 1923, Page 7
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