The two most shameless offenders in this respect are Wu

Ch‘i and Huai-nan Tzfi, both of them important historical personages in their day. The former lived only a century after the alleged date of Sun Tan, and his death is known to have taken place in 381 B. C. It was to him, according to Liu Hsiang, that {BI} I13 Tséng Sheri delivered the T so Cfimm, which had been entrusted to him by its author. 1 Now the fact that quotations from the Arz‘ of PVar, acknowledged or otherwise, are to be found in so many authors of different epochs, establishes a very strong probability that there was some common source anterior to them all, — in other words, that Sun Tzfi’s treatise was already in existence towards the end of the 5th century B. C. Further proof of Sun Tz'u’s antiquity is furnished by the archaic or wholly obsolete meanings attaching to a number of the words he uses. A list of these, which might perhaps be extended, is given in the Hsii Lu; and though some of the interpretations are doubtful, the main argument is hardly affected thereby. 2 Again, it must not be forgotten that Yeh Shui-hsin, a scholar and critic of the first rank,

deliberately pronounces the style of the I3 chapters to