F. L. H. P.
April 28th, 1909.
NEW EDITION
In preparing the new edition, the author has received most valuable help from his colleague, Prof. F. C. Cooper. The two new lessons were suggested by him, and the one containing more useful words and phrases is the result of his experience, gained through teaching the book to a class of beginners.
My thanks are also due to him for the time and care he has spent in correcting the proofs, and seeing the book through the press.
The author hopes the book will continue to be a useful stepping-stone in the acquisition of a knowledge of the Shanghai Dialect.
Inasmuch as Davis’s Shanghai Dialect Exercises may be used as a second book after the completion of this, it has not been deemed necessary to add many new lessons.
F. L. H. P.
October 29th, 1913.