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Excerpt from A First German Reader and Writer It is hoped that such a method as the above will avoid both the evils of the abstract grammatical method and the difficulties of unsystematic teaching. The Reader and Writer serve as a guide to the Grammar, showing in what order the facts there marshalled may be taught and learnt. 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.

Excerpt from Glück Auf: A First German Reader The material has been graded as carefully as was consistent with the desire of the authors not to present difficulty after difficulty without affording the student an occasional opportunity to pause to take breath. It will be seen that in the beginning the sentences are of the very simplest construction that, gradually, a more difficult vocabulary is introduced, and dependent as well as participial clauses increase in number. 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.

Excerpt from First German Reader Our first german reader is simple. Nevertheless, since we are addressing ourselves to adolescents, it is never childish, nor does it overlook the importance of introducing the student to a German atmosphere. The selections for reading, consist ing of description, narration, and conversation, are arranged upon sound pedagogical principles, proceeding from the known to the unknown, from the better known to the less known, from the less difficult to the more difficult, from the imme diate environment to which the pupil adjusts himself more readily, to the more remote. Definite grammatical phenomena are embodied in each piece. The self-activity of the student is stimulated everywhere. 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.

Excerpt from A Preparatory German Reader for Beginners Much of the reading material ordinarily presented to beginners in German consists of popular fairy tales sometimes even of translations or adaptations from other languages. It has seemed to the author that teachers might prefer simple and graded prose, referring to the life of Germany, allowing at least a glimpse at the history of the country, and telling something about a few of its most illustrious sons. 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.

Excerpt from An Elementary German Reader BY including in this German Reader poems, historical writings, and forms of correspondence as well as tales, legends, and romances, the author has hoped to make a comprehensive book that shall be no less useful than enter taining. Thanks to the number of writers and the dif ferent styles represented, the book provides for the student a variety of interests and gives him, also, an extensive vocabulary and a familiarity with different kinds of liter ature. The Reader may be taken up early in the course and may be used in connection with the study of German Grammar. The reading material should prove sufficient for a reasonably full year's work. 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.

Excerpt from The First German Reader: To Succeed the "First Book in German" The selections in poetry are great favorites with the children, many of these being famil iar as household words to every German child. Their popularity is owing to their charming fresh and nervous style, and their earnest appeals to the best feelings of the human heart. It would be an interesting exercise for the pupil to commit these little poems to memory. 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.

Excerpt from Elementary German Reader: With Notes and Vocabulary This book will accordingly be found to contain more easy reading than any other book of its class. Many German Readers begin well enough, but the average pupil's powers of acquisition do not increase in the same ratio with the increase in difficulty of the selections, and he is, therefore, likely to find the latter part of the book discouragingly difficult and, consequently, uninteresting. If Lessing's Fables or Grimm's Tales are proper reading for a pupil to-day, it is scarcely probable that he will, in a few weeks, be able to read with profit and enjoyment selections from Humboldt's Kosmos or Kant's Ethics, yet this seems to be the theory of the compilers of some books of this kind. A more rational proceeding would seem to be to have a larger quantity of easy reading, and as the pupil's knowledge increased, he could take longer lessons and so be encouraged by being able to observe his own improvement. Inasmuch as this book is intended primarily for the school and not for the college, it does not profess to contain specimens of German literature. Like Hamlet, the average beginner reads only words, words, words, and graces of style and even beautiful thoughts are nu appreciated on account of the difficulty experienced in getting at the meaning of individual words. A study of these things should be relegated to a later stage of the student's career, after grammar and vocabulary have ceased to require constant attention. N 0 authors' names are attached to the prose selections, because, in the first place, they have been taken from a great variety of sources, and the original writer was not, in every case, known. In the second place, even in familiar selections, great liberties have sometimes been taken with the text, so that the original author cannot properly be held responsible for what is said or for the manner in which it is said. For most Of the historical selections. 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.