The Educational Association of China hava by no meats done the lest of their kno evidently did." they were doing, and also the committe The giant Wells Williams undertook a uniform system for alk the various dialect of China, and not without " good degree of success. Dr. Mateer attempted a system for Exstern Mandarin or the coast: Manda-Fin from Nanking to Peking and has given all the important syllables of this cons district in s consistent spelling, his new system undertook " larger and different task, to make a uniform practical system for li districts where the Mandarin is u-ed, not as previous systems for foreigners, but for use among the people in their own tongue. This task would have been simpler if previous system had not been red, for the sim was, while thoking it only for use among the people, yet togive
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