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 ANNOUNCEMENT

At the urgent request of many missionaries and others who use the Foochow dialect, and with the consent of Dr. T. B. Adam, the system of Romanization formerly used in this dictionary (see "") has been changed to correspond with the system now in use in the Maclay and Baldwin Alphabetic Dictionary and the Foochow Handbook.

The hope expressed by Dr. Adam in his preface that some one more competent would "put his learning into the form of a first class English-Foochow dictionary" has not been realized and it has been necessary to issue this edition as a mere reprint with the system of Romanization changed.

Our thanks are due to the author for this privilege and for the great service the first edition has been to the public.

Foochow, January 30, 1905.