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 PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION

This little volume professes merely to be an expansion of Part VII. of Dr. C. C. Baldwin's excellent manual of the Foochow dialect. It is published in the belief that, with all its imperfections, it will supply a want and be serviceable to students of the dialect.

The Orthography of Dr. Baldwin's manual is adopted with but two points of exception: viz.

For explanation of all other points of orthography, and for the significance of the tone marks, reference must be made to Dr. Baldwin's manual.