A Vocabulary of the English and Malay Languages;
t*8?§*fv e? Vfe Y t * Vc't'fehll Ml* V/BfrllTm ; -vv VOCABULARY OF THE English and Malay LANGUAGES WITH NOTES FRANK A. SWETTENHAM, C.M.G., H.M.'S RESIDENT, SELANGOR, MALAY PENINSULA. REVISED EDITION. VOL. I.—ENGLISH-MALAY. Singapore ; Printed at the Government Printing Office. London : W. B. WHITTINGHAM & Co., 91, Gracechurch Street, E.C. 1889. All Rights Reserved. PC- — — — — vocabulary of the English and malay languages, with notes, BY F. A. SWETTENHAM. Opinions of the Press. These objects appear to us to have been successfully attained. The work is a most scholarly production, which does Mr. SWETTENHAM the highest credit, and must have cost him much time and labour, and it cannot fail to prove a most useful vade-mecum to the student and the business man who wishes to obtain an accurate knowledge of the Malay language, its idiom, pronunciation, and written character. When Part II is published, the complete work will enable any one to learn how to speak and write Malay accurately without help or reference to any other work, such as MARSDEN's Dictionary, now out of print and difficult to get, or CRAWFURD's Grammar and Dictionary, now also more or less out of date and which does not give the Malay character. Singapore Daily Times, 1 8th April, 1881. When we say that the work does credit to his reputation as a Malay scholar and reflects highly on his abilities as an author and an industrious civilian official, we give him but faint praise. There is such small encouragement for a man in the Far East to devote his time to a work of the description referred to above, that we wonder Mr.
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