With guide to pronunciation and 40 "practical" Dialogues. (One asks another to ask a 16 year old girl of interest in an affair, where the friend is "simply doing my best to help in an emergency" [170]!). Facing pages contain vocabulary study of new characters in both Romanized and Chinese form. "Most Chinese characters have many meanings." [3]

This book, with dialogues between a Western master and his Chinese servant on topics such as "hiring a rickshaw", is quite dated now, but interesting for that reason!