A highly successful meeting under the auspices of the British Chamber of Commerce was held] on Thursday at the Powattan Club when Sir Everard Fraser presided over a large attendance, which listened with interest to some very able speeches in connexion with the inauguration of a language school by the Chamber. Sir Everard was supported by Messrs. E. 8. Little, T. F. Cobbs, A. Rose, and Dr. Hopkyn Rees, principal of the school.
The chairman remarked in opening the meeting that the British Chamber of Commerce was to be: congratulated on the interest which the scheme, which they were met to inaugurate, had already excited, and that within a year of its institution the Chamber should tackle a matter on which opinions were still strongly divided was! fresh proof of its energy. Of late! years the impression of the extraordinary difficulty of Chinese had weakened owing to the growing number of works giving real aid! to its study. The number of foreigners able to get alonz in Chinese had grown steadily and with that'
lost its initial terror. With ordinary growth the bogey of Chinese had application and proper senso of the initial slowness natural to the/ study of a different cert of language from those ordinarily tackled, no Briton need doubt the result of studying Chinese.
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