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Excerpt from Easy Steps in Chinese Studies: A Series of Lessons, Vocabularies, Expressions, Etc; Etc <p>The plan I have adopted is so to familiarise the scholars with the characters in the earlier lessons that these may be recognized at sight, but not necessarily written from memory. Tone-marks are used, but at first no notice whatever is taken of them, the boys being cautioned to depend upon their ear entirely, and give no heed whatever to the transliteration, except as a refresher to the memory. Of the success of this plan there is no doubt. Dr. Edkins, who did us the honour to examine the classes in December 1901, writes thus in his report The pupils whom I heard read have the tone and Pekin accent. Though all are foreign boys they seem to catch the tone from the teacher, a Pekinese belonging to the Imperial city, much more readily than they would do if they had begun to learn at, say, 25 years of age. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.