which is 132 lbs. 2 oz. 964 dec. avoirdupois. The Weighers are often bribed by the Merchants to make the goods shipped off weigh less than they really do.

"One hundred Tales in Sisee money weighed by a Merchant, or by the Rifiner, when carried to the Receivers of the Customs, is found deficient in weight Tls. 1. 3, or thereabouts. Formerly it was only 3 or 4 mace less. This plunder the Hoppo and his people have.

"Wrought silks pay 1 Candareen per piece more than other goods, as a bribe to the Hoppo, to prevent his searching for yellow colors which are prohibited.

"The Emperor has nearly all the money collected from the measurage of ships, and presents of 1950 Tales.

"The distribution of the 1950 Tales viz:

"The Linguist is also obliged to make the following presents per ship, before her departure.

"Also 12 Taels per month, for all the ships, to Hoppo on Danés Island for [having] permitted the English sailors to walk there.

"The charges of unloading a ship at Whampo per day are as follow:

Hoppo man for taking care of the goods

2 0 0

The Hoppo's people eating at the Factory 3 0 0 0

comes to about

For the hire of a Boat

1

4 4 0

Tales

11 2 3 0

"The charge on a Boat of goods from Canton to Whampo, is the same as a Boat from the Ship. "The fees, at going away, to the 3 Hoppo-houses are increased to near 40 dollars per ship. a few dollars, 3 or 5 per ship. can't be known, and what the mentioned.

They were formerly only What the Merchants give Linguists give, is already

"The Hoppo continually wants presents to send to Court. For all clocks, he pays from 40 to 80 Tales; for Pearls about 300 Tales; for what costs the merchants 1000 Tales.

"The Hoppo in 1755 demanded of; Merchants at his leaving Canton, 15,000 Tales, and they by great intercession, got off for Tales 3,300.

"The Linguist gets 2c. 2c. part of the peculage duty but he abates from it 20 per cent that he may be paid in Dollar money, instead of money of 75 or less touch. This reduces it to lc. 7c. 6dec., so that

10000 which is accounted to him only as 9000

because 10 per cent is taken off for packages, his gain Tls. 158

therefore on that is

peculs,

"What he gets by impositions is impossible to be known."

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

CHINESISCHE GRAMMATIK mit Ausschluss des NIEDEREN STILES und der HEUTIGEN UMGANGS-SPRACHE. Von GEORG VON DER GABELENTZ.

F all the Chinese grammars so far published this is the most perfect, inasmuch as it unites with the fulness of Premare's work * the scholarly clearness of Schott's "Chinesische Sprachlehre." Its author is the son of a renowned Chinese and Manchu scholar and now occupies the Chinese chair at the University of Leipsic; he has for a considerable number of years made the analysis of ancient written Chinese his chief study, and appears thus to have been specially qualified for the work he has given us. In writing this exhaustive work

he meant it to become a detailed scientific hand-book for the classical and post-classical language, embracing all the material the present state of sinology furnishes; one of its main purposes would appear to be to enable the student to read and understand Chinese without the assistance of either teacher or translation, and to express his thoughts correctly in the language thus learned.

The Grammar is divided into three books. The first of these contains a sort of introduction to the study of the language and all that had to be said about sounds, tones and characters; also a chapter, quite new to Chinese grammatical literature, regarding the problems connected with the ancient sounds and etymological features of the language. In the introductory chapter a review is given of the history of the language as regards its various literary styles, its dialects and its relation to the languages of neighbouring countries, * It contains in all about 4,000 examples.