BOOK VI. THE DECADE OF PIH SHAN. A Picture of Husbandry 215 The Complaint of an Officer 216 BOOK VII. DECADE OF SANG HOO. The Rejoicings of a Bridegroom 219 Against Listening to Slanderers 220 BOOK VIII. THE DECADE OF TOO JIN SZE. In Praise of By-gone Simplicity 221 A Wife Bemoans Her Husband's Absence 222 The Earl of Shaou's Work 223 The Plaint of King Yew's Forsaken Wife 224 Hospitality 226 On the Misery of Soldiers 226 _Part III. Greater Odes of the Kingdom._ BOOK I. DECADE OF KING WAN. Celebrating King Wan 228 [_Book II is omitted_] BOOK III. DECADE OF TANG. King Seuen on the Occasion of a Great Drought 231 _Part IV. Odes of the Temple and Altar._ BOOK I. SACRIFICIAL ODES OF CHOW. Appropriate to a Sacrifice to King Wan 235 On Sacrificing to the Kings Woo, Ching, and K‘ang 236 THE WISDOM OF CONFUCIUS [_Translated into English by William Jennings_] PRONUNCIATION OF PROPER NAMES _j_, as in French. _ng_, commencing a word, like the same letters terminating one. _ai_ or _ei_, as in _aisle_ or _eider_. _au_, as in German, or like _ow_ in _cow_. _é_, as in _fête_. _i_ (not followed by a consonant), as _ee_ in _see_. _u_ (followed by a consonant), as in _bull_. _iu_, as _ew_ in _new_. _úi_, as _ooi_ in _cooing_. _h_ at the end of a name makes the preceding vowel short. ‘ in the middle of a word denotes an aspirate (h), as _K‘ung_ = _Khung_. INTRODUCTION