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534 a Knight Commander of the Victorian Order. In November of the same year he was nominated as Minister to the Court of St. Junes', and entered upon his duties in May 1897. He speaks English fluently, and is the author of a translation into Chinese of Problems on Nautical Astronomy and Navigation, by Jeans, and also of a pamphlet on Indeterminate Equations.

  Lo Fu 羅敷. A very beautiful and chaste woman who lived under the Han dynasty. One day, when she was out picking mulberries, the Prince of Chao, in whose service her husband was, began to make advances to her. She at once seized her lute and broke into song, in order to express her feelings.

  Lo Jao-tien 羅繞典 (T. 蘇溪). A.D. 1793-1854. Graduated as chin shih in 1829, and by 1849 was Governor of Hupeh. In 1852 he was commissioned to inspect the defences of Hunan, and successfully held Ch'ang-sha against the T'ai-p'ings. In 1853 he went as Viceroy to Yünnan, where he managed to keep the rebellious Mahomedans under control. He died while engaged in an attack upon a local rebel, and was canonised as 文僖.

  Lo Kuan-Chung 羅貫中. 12th cent. A.D. A native of Ch'ien-t'ang in Chehkiang, and a novelist to whose pen the famous romance, 水滸傳, has been wrongly attributed. See .

  Lo Kung-yüan 羅公遠. A magician, who is said to have conducted the Emperor Ming Huang to the palace of the moon. He threw his staff into the air, and it became a dazzling bridge over which the adventurous travellers passed with safety. In the moon the Emperor witnessed a performance of singing and dancing by beautiful maidens, and on his return to earth he organised the famous body of operatic artists known as the 梨園子弟 Pear-Garden Performers.

  Lo Pi 羅泌 (T. 長源). 12th cent. A.D. A native of Lu-ling in Kiangsi, and a distinguished scholar. Author of the 路史, a