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Specimen.
Japanese  proyerb.
Kagami  fa  sugata  no  yosi-asi  fo  miru  mo}  kokoro  no  ktyokn
tstyoku  wo  tadasi  aratamenu  ga  tame  nan.  Japanese  proverb.
Kon-nitst  wa.  Nani-wo  o  me-ni  kake-masiyo  kaf  Mo  sii-
kosi  oki-no-wo  o  mise.  Ki-ro  wa  nozomi-masenu.  Hei,  zui-bun
deki-maw.  Sore  wa  Nippon-no  fi-doi'i-de  ari-masfika?  Si  gu-
watsu  ziyu  yokka-de  am-masu.  Fito  fako  ffyak  kin  iri-ni  nasare.
San  futo-de  itei  ydto-ni  nari-masu  (three  feet  make  one
yard).  Is-styaku-no  to-wo  itei  ziyo  to  -l-masu.
J.  Hoffmann,  Shopping-dialogues.
JAPANESE.  247

Remarks'.
Of  the  two  Japanese  formes  of  writing,  the  cursive  Firo-kana
and  the  more  square  and  distinct  Kata-kana,  we  have  exhi-
bited above  the  latter,  which  has  been  reduced  already  to
our  Standard  Alphabet  by  J.  Hoffmann  (the  learned  editor
of  Donker  Curtius's  Japanese  Grammar,  Leyden,  1857.)  in  his
^Shopping-dialogues  in  Dutch,  English  and  Japanese,  Leyden.
