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What foreign students have achieved in the department of Chinese literature from the sixteenth century down to quite recent times is well exhibited in the three large volumes which form the /Bibliotheca Sinica/, or /Dictionnaire Bibliographique des Ouvrages rélatifs à l'Empire chinois/, by Henri Cordier: Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1878; with Supplément, 1895.
By far the most important of all the books mentioned in the above collection is a complete translation of the Confucian Canon by the late Dr. James Legge of Aberdeen, under the general title of /The Chinese Classics/. The publication of this work, which forms the greatest existing monument of Anglo-Chinese scholarship, extended from 1861 to 1885.