STRUCTURE OF THE CHINESE LANGUAGE, 578-625
Influence of the Chinese language upon its literature, 578;
Native accounts of the origin of their characters, 580; Growth
and development of the language, 581; Characters arranged into
six classes, 583; Development from hieroglyphics, 584; Phonetic
and descriptive properties of a character, 587; Arrangement of
the characters in lexicons, 589; Classification according to
radicals, 591; Mass of characters in the language, 593; Six
styles of written characters, 597; Their elementary strokes,
598; Ink, paper, and printing, 599; Manufacture and price of
books, 601; Native and foreign movable types, 603; Phonetic
character of the Chinese language, 605; Manner of distinguishing
words of like sound, 609; The _Shing_, or tones of the language,
610; Number of sounds or words in Chinese, 611; The local
dialects and patois, 612; Court or Mandarin dialect, 613; Other
dialects and variations in pronunciation, 614; Grammar of the
language, 617; Its defects and omissions, 621; Hints for its
study, 623; Pigeon English, 624.