Chip bonnet, Chiphat

A head-covering made of thin chips of wood or straw. Chip'-munk, n. (Zool.) The striped squirrel. See STRIPED SQUIRREL. lections that have yet to be made known to us. As -A material obtained from the leaves of the palm called lyric poets, the names of Tu-su and Li-thai-pe, who flourished about the 8th century, are specially famous. Of their numerous poems little is as yet known. - The romances of the Chinese are not characterized by any great flights of the imagination, but are valuable as giving an insight into the domestic life, and the modes of thinking, feeling, and acting of the people. Their dramatic poetry follows peculiar rules, and approaches partly the romantic plays of the Germans, partly the commedie delle arti of the Italians. They have also a kind of dialogue novels, which form a subordinate species of drama. The best-known collection of dramas is Yuen-dschin-pe-tschong, i. e. the "Hundred Dramas from the Mongolian dynasty" (1260-1341), out of which all the dramas that are yet known to us have been taken; as the Lao-seng-urh, or an "Heir in his Old Age," by Davis (London, 1817). The richest collections of Chinese books in Europe are at Paris, London, Ber lin, Munich, and St. Petersburg. We po e as yet no history of Chinese literature. The Chinese themselves have numerous works of this cla ; but they are very meagre, and are almost entirely confined to bibliographical and critical sketches.