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"Documentary Course," up to, say, Document No. 57, being careful to study all the notes contained in the "Key," and consulting the Dictionary in preference to the native teacher. At this stage he will be sufficiently prepared to commence systematic studies, and he should devote a certain time every day to reading these Notes, which have been so arranged as to give him as little work with the Dictionary as possible. If by this means he contract a taste for making grammatical observations himself, by collecting examples of an analogous character in order to find the rule governing each mode of expression which may be new to him, the object of this publication will be best fulfilled.
How to continue his studies thereafter will be a question of individual need. The "Documentary Course" and the "Text Book" will furnish him ample material for home study, and the student in China will soon find there is no lack of opportunity for practice in the routine of daily life.
