Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1914 — First Chinese School Book. [ARTICLE]

First Chinese School Book.

There are also fragments of the Chi Chiu-Chaog vocabulary composed by a eunich of the palace In about the year 40 A. D. All the authentic texts of this ancient school book, widely used In the year 2 to teach Chinese children to read and wri(e, had long since disappeared. The paper manuscripts are the oldest examples of such literature in existence. M. Chavannes has succeeded In reconstructing from these heterogeneous and more or lesß ' fragmentary and disconnected a fairly probable picture of the daily life of the Chinese garrisons that held these frontier posts against the Huns and kept open the trade routes to Farghana and Yarkand. The human as well as scientific interest of such a picture is manifest.