). My own copy of his work is in the 12th section of the large Collection of the Yüeh-ya Hall , published in 1853. Writing of Wu Chʽêng in 1865 (“ Proleg. ” to the Shu , p. 36), I said that he was “a bold thinker and a daring critic, handling his text with a freedom which I had not seen in any other Chinese scholar.” The subsequent study of his writings has confirmed me in this opinion of him. Perhaps he might be characterised as an independent, rather than as a bold, thinking, and the daring of his criticism must not be supposed to be without caution. (See “ Introd., ”