The following is prepared a+ a substitute for the student's curriculum now in use in the S.P.M. It is put in print with the desire to recvivs suggestions slong this many of the distinguished echo-lars residing temporarily in Shanghai, also to obtain " fuller list of Chinexe novels and other easy books, translations of which have been publi hed, so a to sav; the time spent in looking twice for a ch"racter in the Dictionary. After all, the dictum of Prof. Gildersleeve holds good: The best way to learn " language is to learn it."
Soochow, 8th December.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.