Note 1 — THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS (continued 2)

The rather inappropriate name given by foreigners to the songs or ballads contained in the Shih Ching or Book of Poetry (see note on p. 78). Confucius is said to have selected these three hundred odd pieces from a much larger pre-existing mass of material, but his language here hardly strikes us as that likely to be used by a man speaking of his own compilation.