Word: emperors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese literature, printing, and bookbinding are to be found among its volumes. Among the most valuable of these recently received are two books are the largest and most comprehensive encyclopedia over complied in the history of mankind, done by a commission of 2000 scholars at the behest of the emperor Yung--lo, of the Ming dynasty, who reigned from 1403 to 1424. Only one set was printed; it contained 22,211 books bound in 11,095 volumes, or over 500,000 pages. Most of it was destroyed by the great fire in Peking in 1900 when the allied troops captured...
...original palace edition of an anthology of prose from authors of all ages down to the end of the 12th century, compiled for the Emperor K'ang-hsi, is printed on specially treated paper in multiple colors, using black, red, yellow, and green inks to produce a brilliant display. The colors have remained fast to the present day. Many monumental works were produced in the reign K'anghsi, who was a great patron of letters. In the Harvard Chinese library is the original palace edition of a concordance of phrases found in classical, poetical, historical, and philosophical literature, arranged...
House of Peers said privately that the government must fall. But how? There was no sign that the Army & Navy, which in Japan are responsible to the Emperor alone, and can hamstring the politicians, had wavered. The Army was last week engaged in annual "Grand Maneuvers." Suddenly at night a typhoon burst upon Tokyo, plunged the Capital into darkness as power lines were torn down, silenced telephones and telegraphs, engulfed 30,000 flimsy houses. Japan must expand, say her sabre-rattlers, because of her "population pressure." This is exerted by a population roughly half as great as that...
Bewildered, rudely awakened from his dream of independent wealth in three years, Hector 0. Hamilton could tell correspondents no more than that he thought the Soviet authorities have recently learned for the first time that he is a subject of King-Emperor George V though his home is in East Orange, N. J. For a Palace of Soviets to be designed by a King-Emperor's subject would perhaps be too incongruous...
...DAYS-Philip Gibbs-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Story of an old-fashioned English gentleman, by England's popular journalist-author. MEN AGAINST DEATH-Paul de Kruif - Harcourt, Brace ($3.50). True tales of little-known fighters against disease. THE CAT WHO SAW GOD-Anna Gordon Keown-Morrow ($2.50). Late great Emperor Nero takes possession of the body of a cat, settles down with an English spinster. Amusing in the English manner...