About Author: James Legge, a Scottish sinologist and Congregationalist, was born on 20th Dec1815 and died on 29th Nov 1897. He was the first professor of Chinese Language at Oxford University. About Book: THE CHINESE CLASSICS With a translation, critical and exegetical notes, prolegomena, and copious indexes IN FIVE VOLUMES CONFUCIAN ANALECTS THE GREAT LEARNING THE DOCTRINE OF THE MEAN PROLEGOMENA