SECTION VI.— ALCHEMY.

* Hermetic (The) Museum, restored and enlarged, most faithfully in- structing all the disciples of the sopho-spagyric art how that greatest and truest medicine of the Philosophers' Stone may be found and held. Now first done into English from the rare Latin original published at Frankfurt in the year 1678. Containing twenty-two most celebrated tracts. London, 1892. 2 vols., 4to. Vol. i, pp. xi-357 ; plates. Vol. 11, pp. [iv]-32 2 ; plates.
The name of the translator is not given ; the preface is signed Arthur Edward Waite. Edition limited to 250 copies.
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* Chang PiH TuAN.
Wu-chen-pien. 2 vols., 8vo, Vol, i, pp. [99] ; 11, pp. [156].
Written about 1075 A.D. There are three Commentaries on this work pub- lished together. A few extracts from Wu-chen-pien will be found in Dr. W. A. P. Martin's " The Chinese," New York, 1881, pp. 182, 183. My copy is a reprint issued during the reign of the present Emperor of China, Kuang Hsu.
*Ts'an T'ung Ch'i. pp. [165], 8vo.
The earliest Chinese work on alchemy now extant. My copy is a reprint issued during the reign of the present Emperor of China, Kuang HsU, The clearest Commentary of recent times is by a scholar of the Yuen dynasty, named Ch'en Chih Hsu. For these Chinese alchemical works I am indebted to the courtesy of John Fryer, LL.D., of Shanghai.