The Archive · 1926

Part LI, Cognate Words and

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Part I, Hes a compact but very copious English Index. The book is more than worth the price to any one acquainted with Chinese. At the reduced rate to missionaries, it is excusable to be without a copy. A few errors, inevitable in text and notation, are largely reeceerable on pages, 522-523, Occasionslly, the author presumes on the intelligence of the veadar-user, a fault that may be forgiven on better acquaintance with the book. Erudition pervades the pages with a gentle insistence. upton at ie wer Memo] SOME CHINA SKETCHES tat of tain in les tine Elite lished by ind mont yet, compete economically This is a good book of short: with majority mot accustomed such a standard." accustomed t0 ies, Perhaps one should cal ing accomplished is the burton of them wom essays, but resting that it is impossible to cesaxs, but they they are so me put the book aside when once you have started reading it; so we

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