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and phraseology pupils say is, long us it clo Jourv what their becomes, intelligible to them. But the secret grand of acquiring fluency and correctness in all languages, and particularly in blumes, is the habit of listening to others engaged in conversation, and the particular avenue of the students Jane - considered, I am persuaded that nothing will be much to their advantage _as_constant attendance at the Police boust, or ut any Court or place bung interpreted_ Inve avt are in which examinations at Peking for the the Students of the Mandarin, Volumes use of Dialogues 48, which of have been revised and printed under my directions. The text of these would be easily modified by a Cantonese as to make them some use to bris of pupil. and I have written to request that five copies should be forwarded to the Government of Hong Kong-
[Signed] Thomas Francis Wade, H. B. M. Secretary of Legation
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Madlexand Acting Colonial Secretary