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ADVERTISEMENTS.

NOW READY AT THE "DAILY PRESS" OFFICE.

PART SECOND,

OP A NEW

ANGLO-CHINESE DICTIONARY,

QUARTO,

BY THE

REV. W. LOESCHEID.

COURT AND PUNTI DIALECTS.

PUBLISHER'S NOTICE.

HIS WORK was commenced in November, 1864, the computation of the author then being that it could be comprised in ore the need four Lundred pages, and would occupy two years. Many unlooked for obstructions, chiefly of a typographical nature, materially retarded the progress of the work in the first instance, and these being over- come, the author discovered that he had underestimated the extent and the importance of the vast task he had undertaken, and that it would occupy fully double the time and which he had at the outset computed,

space

The publication of a work of such magnitude, and prescuting so many and such varied obstacles, seldom falls to the limited resources of one single individual as occurs in this case. The first and second parts of the work are Low issued, partly at the request of the author and partly to afford the Foreign Community of China an opportunity of extending that assistance to the publisher, which under the circumstances is usually so freely accorded.

The price of the book complete will be $30, and it will be published in four parts at $7.50 each. But this objection presents itself to the sale of the parts separately, should the purchaser of one or more parts not take the others, a number of incomplete, and consequently valueless, copies will be left on the publisher's hands. To remedy this objection, in consideration of the circumstances already alluded to, it is hoped that those who see fit to patronise the undertaking by purchasing the first and second parts, will not object to signing an engagement to take the remaining parts as they appear, or should they prefer it, to pay for the entire work in advance.

Missionaries supplied at Trade Price.

The Daily Press Office, Hongkong, 1st January, 1868.

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