First translated into Chinese, at the command of the Emperor, by a Cabal of Seventy Philosophers; and now retranslated into English, by the Son of a Mandarin, residing in London.

Captain Jurianse hired a boat, and we immediately went on shore, where each person on landing had to pay half a Spanish dollar (2s.) to the mandarin: I subsequently heard that this imposition was shortly afterwards abolished.

They pay down a certain sum, as caution-money, to some mandarin, and the latter answers for them.

During my excursions up and down the Pearl stream, I had frequent opportunities of hearing artistic performances of this description on board the mandarin and flower-boats.

{102a} The merchants enter into a private understanding with the officers and mandarins, agreeing to give them a certain sum for every pikul, and it is no rare occurrence for a mandarin to land whole cargoes under the protection of his own flag.

It was a kind of mass for the dead, which a mandarin had ordered for his deceased wife.

At the middle altar was the mandarin, piously engaged in prayer, while two stood beside him, fanning him with large fans.

He ought to be some mandarin of mark.

There is a name I must know as soon as possible, that of the mandarin returning to China in the form of a mortuary parcel.

With regard to my newspaper, and that telegram relative to the mandarin our train is "conveying" in the funereal acceptation of the word?

" "And it is?" "Yen Lou, the great mandarin Yen Lou of Pekin.

Took from Douchak the body of the great mandarin Yen Lou coming from Persia to Pekin.

Surely he will not have to worry himself about the mandarin Yen Lou, shut up in this traveling catafalque!

In the rear of the train the Persians are keeping faithful guard round the mandarin Yen Lou.

As we are leaving the car I am near Major Noltitz, who asks young Pan Chao: "Have you ever heard of this mandarin Yen Lou, whose body is being taken to Pekin?" "Never, major.

" "And so, this mandarin, Yen Lou?" "I never heard him mentioned.

A waste of time for the sake of a mandarinand a dead mandarin!

Was it the mandarin, Yen Lou?

The aim of modern education in China is to work towards the establishment of "High Chinese", the former official (Mandarin) language, throughout the country, and to set limits to the use of the various dialects.

He bowed, and in the mandarin language invoked good fortune upon me.

R109310, 20Mar53, Felix Riesenberg, Jr. (C) RILEY, ALICE C. D. The mandarin coat, and five other one act plays.

The mandarin coat.

Claire had to acknowledge that at a distance her aunt gave a wonderful illusion of arrested youth as she stood with one hand grasping the collar of her gorgeous mandarin coat.

[Illustration: MILITARY MANDARIN.]

At the same time the I.G. took care to suggest the removal of an excuse for future misunderstandings in the person of an officious, inefficient interpreter whom Robert Hart himself described as a "'Talkee talkee, me-no-savey,' the sort of person whose attempt at Mandarin [official Chinese] is even viler than his English.