the Architect of the Capitol shall have charge of all structural work at the Library Building and on the grounds, including all necessary repairs, the operation, maintenance, and repair of the mechanical plant and elevators, the care and maintenance of the grounds, and the purchasing and supplying of all furniture and equipment for the building. The employees required for the performance of the foregoing duties shall be appointed by the Architect of the Capitol. All other duties required to be performed by the Superintendent of the Library Building and Grounds shall be performed thereafter under the direction of the Librarian of Congress, who shall appoint the employees necessary therefor. The position of administrative assistant and disbursing officer is hereby created in the Library of Congress, effective on July 1, 1922. The salary of such position shall be at the rate of $3,000 per annum, and appointments thereto shall be made by the Librarian. The administrative assistant and disbursing officer shall disburse the appropriations for the Library of Congress and the Botanic Garden and shall perform such services in connection with the duties hereby imposed upon the Librarian as he may direct, and shall give bond payable to the United States in the sum of $30,000, with sureties approved by the Secretary of the Treasury for the faithful discharge of his duties.

SEC. 2. That all books, documents, papers, furniture, and equipment of the office of Superintendent of the Library Building and Grounds shall be divided between and transferred to the Architect of the Capitol and the Library of Congress on the basis of duties transferred.

SEC. 3. That the appropriation of $3,600 for the fiscal year 1923 for the salary of the Superintendent of the Library Building and Grounds is made available for the payment of the salary of the administrative assistant and disbursing officer at the rate of $3,000 per annum during such fiscal year. All appropriations for the fiscal year 1923 for the Library Building and Grounds shall be apportioned between, transferred to, and made available for the Architect of the Capitol and the Library of Congress on the basis of duties transferred. The appropriation for the fiscal year 1923 for printing and binding for the Library of Congress shall be

made to him on account of the Library Building and Grounds shall be disbursed for that purpose in the same manner as other appropriations under his control.

Approved, June 29, 1922.

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plies and service.

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pair of motor vehicles.

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historical records.

discovered by the Chinese. That the whole world owes to the Chinese the discovery of the basic art of civilization, printing on paper, can not longer be doubted.

As usual a number of Ming Dynasty historical records Ming Dynasty have been added to the Chinese collection during the past year. Perhaps the most interesting of these works is the Huang Ming tien li chih by Kuo Chêng-yü, a treatise on the court ceremonials of the Ming Dynasty. The copy secured is an original edition published in 1610 A. D.; it is in 12 books and is bound in 8 volumes.

Japanese books.

A work of some interest classed by Chinese bibliographers as belonging to the class of "Miscellaneous Writers" is the Lü shih ch'un ch'iu, by Lü Pu-wei who lived during the third century B. C. It is said by Wylie to contain a great amount of historical data not found in any other book. Kao Yen-hu, a Hanlin scholar, has annotated this copy in red ink and certifies that it was formerly the property of Yao Yuan-chih, a noted scholar and artist of the Chia Ch'ing period (1796-1821). This copy seems to be a Ming edition but has only the cyclic date of printing (chia hsü); it is in 26 books and is bound in 6 volumes.

The most important acquisitions of Japanese books during the past year are the two noted below:

The Kokuyaku dai-zo-kyo is a translation into Japanese of the Buddhistic Canon heretofore published only in Chinese, both in Korea and Japan. The Library of Congress has had for some years the last Japanese reprint of the Buddhistic Canon published (in Chinese) at Tokyo in 1885. Together with the latest Chinese reprint made at Shanghai in 1913, the Library of Congress has three copies of this great work. The Kokuyaku dai-zo-kyo is in 116 volumes and 29 portfolios, old Japanese style.

The Shisho saku-in by K. Morimoto, in 2 volumes (western style), is a valuable index to the Four Classics of Confucianism and a good sample of the application of the Japanese system of indexing to the old literature of China. The Japanese phonetic syllables permit readily of the indexing of Chinese and Japanese books, but unfortunately such indexes can only be used by those having a thorough knowledge of the often arbitrary Japanese pronunciation of

good. I foresee that you will make your mark in days to come. I would like to ask who is this Choi Rip?" One of the scholars answered, "He is a choongin (middle class man) gifted, indeed, but with little notion of literary form."

Minister No said, "I'd like to see him."

When summoned, he came and took the lowest place, but the minister called him close up beside him, took him by the hand and said, "For five hundred years we have had no great writers in Korea. Who would have guessed that you were the man destined to restore our honor? This is not a matter for 'I' or 'thou,' it is a matter of unbounded congratulation for the State. You will be the man to write our dispatches to the Emperor and win glory for our nation. Go forward in your studies with all diligence."

The fifteen looked on with faces pale as "dry earth."

Following this, Minister No was frequently heard to say, “Our coming literatus is Choi Rip. He will undoubtedly win first place in the examination and be the man for the country to depend on in days to come.”

Choi became a great literary master. Though of the lower classes he was Vice Governor of Seoul, Governor of Whang-hai, and when he died was honored with the title of Minister of Home Affairs.

The copy of Kan i chip secured by Doctor Gale for the Library of Congress was published in 1623 A. D. by order of King In Jo with Government funds. It consists of a preface by Chang Yu and nine books of the writings of Choi Rip. It is bound in nine large volumes. Three of the nine books consist of official memorials, dispatches, and correspondence with the Ming court and the Chinese The other books contain prefaces, inscriptions, poems, etc., usual in Korean literary collections as in Chinese literary collections upon which the Korean works of this character are modeled.

envoys.

As in case of the other works secured by him for the Library of Congress, Doctor Gale has prepared for the Kan i chip a manuscript table of contents and an index to the more important matters treated. The index covers eleven pages and is arranged by the radical under which falls the initial character of the phrase indexed. This index is a great help in consulting the writings of Choi Rip.

During the past year, a provisional catalogue has been made of all the Korean books in the Library of Congress, a card being made for each work giving the title, author, date of publication, number of books and in some cases other miormation, all in Chinese characters written in vertical