Excerpt from A Mandarin Primer A small book intended to serve as an introduction to this Primer has been prepared by the Author. It is entitled An Idiom a Lesson, and is intended to give the student such a hold on the common idioms of the language as will enable him to continue his studies with a more intelligent interest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.