Note 50 — Chapter XII · PIDGIN AND CONGENERS

There are many specimens in Charles G. Leland, Pidgin-English Sing-Song, or Songs and Stories in the China-English Dialect, with a Vocabulary (5th ed., London, 1900), but they make the impression of being artificially made-up to amuse the readers, and contain a much larger proportion of Chinese words than the rest of my sources would warrant. Besides various articles in newspapers I have used W. Simpson, “China’s Future Place in Philology” (Macmillan’s Magazine, November 1873) and Dr. Legge’s article “Pigeon English” in Chambers’s Encyclopædia, 1901 (s.v. China). The chapters devoted to Pidgin in Karl Lentzner’s Dictionary of the Slang-English of Australia and of some Mixed Languages (Halle, 1892) give little else but wholesale reprints of passages from some of the sources mentioned above.