Contents -- Series Editors' Foreword -- Introduction -- Translator's Introduction -- Preface -- Chinese Poetry and Chinese Painting -- On Reading Laokoon -- Synaesthesia -- Lin Shu's Translations -- Poetry as a Vehicle of Grief -- Longfellow's "A Psalm of Life"-the First EnglishPoem Translated into Chinese-and Several OtherRelated Matters -- An Historical Anecdote, a Religious Parable,and a Novel -- Appendix -- Preface, Four Old Essays ( Jiuwen sipian 文四篇) -- Preface, This Also Collection (Yeshi ji 也是 ) -- Index of Proper Names, Book Titles, & Terms.