The Mirror of Kong Ho
INTRODUCTION
LETTER I. Concerning the journey. The unlawful
demons invoked by certain of the barbarians; their power and the manner
of their suppression. suppression. The incredible obtuseness of those
who attend within tea-houses. The harmonious attitude of a person of
commerce.
LETTER II. Concerning the ill-destined manner of
existence of the hound Hercules. The thoughtlessly-expressed desire of
the entrancing maiden and its effect upon a person of susceptible
refinement. The opportune (as it may yet be described) visit of one
Herbert. The behaviour of those around. Reflections.
LETTER III. Concerning the virtuous amusements of
both old and young. The sit-round games. The masterpiece of the divine
Li Tang, and its reception by all, including that same Herbert.
LETTER IV. Concerning a desire to expatiate upon
subjects of philosophical importance and its no accomplishment. Three
examples of the mental concavity sunk into by these barbarians. An
involved episode which had the outward appearance of being otherwise
than what it was.
LETTER V. Concerning the neglect of ancestors and
its discreditable consequences. Two who state the matter definitely.
Concerning the otherside way of looking at things and the
self-contradictory bearing of the maiden Florence.
LETTER VI. Concerning this person's well-sustained
efforts to discover further demons. The behaviour of those invoked on
two occasions.
LETTER VII. Concerning warfare, both as waged by
ourselves and by a nation devoid of true civilisation. The aged man and
the meeting and the parting of our ways. The instance of the one who
expressed emotion by leaping.
LETTER VIII. Concerning the wisdom of the sublime
Wei Chung and its application to the ordinary problems of existence.
The meeting of three, hitherto unknown to each other, about a wayside
inn, and their various manners of conducting the enterprise.
LETTER IX. Concerning the proverb of the
highly-accomplished horse. The various perils to be encountered in the
Beneath Parts. The inexplicable journey performed by this one, and
concerning the obscurity of the witchcraft employed.
LETTER X. Concerning the authority of this high
official, Sir Philip. The side-slipperyness of barbarian etiquette. The
hurl-headlong sportiveness and that achieving its end by means of
curved mallets.
LETTER XI. Concerning the game which we should
call “Locusts,” and the deeper significance of its acts. The solicitous
warning of one passing inwards and the complication occasioned by his
ill-chosen words. Concerning that victory already dimly foreshadowed.
LETTER XII. Concerning the obvious
misunderstanding which has entwined itself about a revered parent's
faculties of passionless discrimination. The all-water disportment and
the two, of different sexes, who after regarding me conflictingly from
the beginning, ended in a like but inverted manner.
LETTER XIII. Concerning a state of necessity; the
arisings engendered thereby, and the turned-away face of those ruling
the literary quarter of the city towards one possessing a style. This
foreign manner of feigning representations, and concerning my dignified
portrayal of two.
LETTER XIV. Concerning a pressing invitation from
an ever benevolently-disposed father to a prosaic but
dutifully-inclined son. The recording of certain matters of no
particular moment. Concerning that ultimate end which is symbolic of
the inexorable wheels of a larger Destiny.
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