The San Francisco call., 1913-08-10

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In the evening. and | Will tell you all
have learned.
With which she gave me her hand
to kiss. in the odd little French way
she had
The day of Office work and silence,
which she had enjoined. was exactly
what needed to restore my nerves to
their normal tension. 1t was, in fact,
sort Of counter-irritant, which
brought me up standing, with a re-
vived seIf-confldence and recuperated
energy.
So when. . little before o clock that
afternoon, heard Evelyn's voice over
the telephone, was fairly tingling
with ardor for the game; and her re-
quest to call on Professor Griffin. the
expert in oriental literature. who oc-
cupied chair in Columbia university,
was welcome call to action.
Very briefly she explained that she
had seen the professor that morning,
and had laid before him the original
letter and my copies Of the others. and
that he had kindly promised to make
. careful study of them and acquaint
her with the result later in the day.
She thought 1t better, however, that /
should call upon him for hts con-
clusions, she said, as they would prob
ably be verbal and she doubted her
own ability to convey them to me with
entire accuracy. OF course she had
told him nothing as to the circum-
stances surrounding the letters. AS
they bore no dates, and were unad-
dressed, she had led him to infer that
they were autographic curiosities be-
longing to her uncle in which we were
all three interested.
had met Professor Griffin on sew
eral occasions. He was an oldish,
white haired gentleman, of rather the
ascetic type. He received me In his
study.
I have been deeply interested, Mr..
Clyde he began. in the autographs
and copies which Miss Grayson brought
to me. They are unique specimens of
English composition, in that the orien-
tai influence is SO clearly demonstrated
throughout. Do you, by any chance,
know where Mr.. Cameron obtained
them ?"
| was hardly prepared for this ques-
ton, but | answered as promptly as
possible that they had recently come
into my friends possession, but from
just what source had not learned.
The three writings he went on,
evidently form series. of which, I
take 1t, this is the first
'The one which says, Take warning
Of what shall happen on the seventh
day'?" | queried
Yes. That is the first. The other of
the copies, in which occurs the phrase
once more is, of course, the second
And the original autograph is the last. =
Exactly" l agreed
All three he continued, sagely,
begin. as you must have observed
with the same sentence, That which
you have wrought shall in turn be
wrought upon YOU That is a quota
tion.''
"A quotation exclaimed, in sur
prise.
"A quotation from Mencius, the great
expositor of Confucius, who lived B. G.
S72 to 2S9. In the original, a word
meaning beware precedes the warn
ing, and more literal translation of
the passage would be: Beware, what
proceeds from you will return to you
again.
1t seemed to me that this was TAX
Ing great deal for granted.
The supposition that the words are
a paraphrase of Mencius,' he ex-
planned, would not be tenable, per-
haps, were 1t not that we and run.
ming through the series other quota
tions that are unquestionably Of
Chinese origin. The flrst letter. for
example, concludes with The ways Of
Cur God are many. On the righteous
ne showers blessings; on the evil he
pours forth misery This is from the
Book of History, or 'Shu King, in
which are the documents edited BY
Confucius himself, and again, in the
second letter we find Fine words and
smiling countenance make not yir-
tue which is from the Lunhu, or
'Analects' Of Confucius, in which the
views and maxims Of the sage are re-
tailed by his disciples
Those, Of course. are unmistakablv
translations, / agreed.
And SO the concluding sentences 81
the third, the autograph letter. he
assured me. Say not heaven Is high
abovel Heaven ascends and descends
about our deeds. daily inspecting US.
wheresoever we are / find it in one
OF the sacrificial odes Of Kau, and it is
the best rendered Of all the excerpts
So your conclusion as to the author