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 PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION. xv 610 to 785 pages, and the illustrations in the text increased by 98, besides the addition of 34 plates from photographs. The chapters on Further India, Java and China have been edited and partly rewritten by Mr. R. Phene Spiers, the editor of Mr. Fergusson's larger work, the ' History of Ancient and Medieval Architecture,' published in 1893. Mr. Spiers has recast these chapters, adding much fresh and important in- formation to each, whilst he has also added a new chapter on the Architecture of Japan. For Burma, Mr. Spiers has had to depend largely upon the few works published during the last thirty years describing the buildings there found, on the photographs in the India Office and on the somewhat meagre notes contained in the ' Progress Reports ' of the Archaeological Survey. For Cambodia, Siam and Java, on the other hand, were available the excellent publications of the French Archaeological Surveys carried out at first under the supervision of the Ecole Fran9aise d'Extreme Orient, and now under the skilled direction of the Archaeological Commission of Indo - China, and of the Java Surveys under the direction of the Dutch Government Archaeological Commission. This section occupied 100 pages with 49 woodcuts in the former edition ; now, with the addition of Japan, it has been extended to 163 pages, with 67 woodcuts and 31 plates. J. BURGESS. EDINBURGH, February 1910.