ON FEBRUARY 8, 1902, THE
NEW YORK TIMES published an article that opened with the dramatic paragraph, "What is perhaps the greatest tragedy in the history of literature is recalled by the appearance of two sections of the Chinese Encyclopedia, lent to the London Library by a man who picked them up for a song in a bookshop of the British metropolis. These two volumes are among the meagre [
sic] remains of the most colossal literary work ever carried out by man..."
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