PREFACE IX

persons and tenses of verbs and a few plirase-renderiiigs of difficult expressions, thinkiug that anything further would hâve niade undue calls npon tlie tinie of " Junior " pupils for whoni tliis volume was first design éd.

Sbould the Vocabulary be thought excessive, " / am jirmly convinced tliat in reading a fureign language the young require much more help than they usually get " (R. H. Quick). Tliese words, which I quoted twenty years ago, I still écho now ; young readers seldoui possess the knowledge and retentive memory expected from them. When we set them to read standard poetry we may assume that ail hâve learnt verbs in ail their forms, and many comraon words, but very few remember them accurately. The Vocabulary is complète in order to help them to avoid common mistakes, and ' encourage them to try and do well wliat remains a very difficult task.

But feeling how much lias been left undone, which I should bave wished to hâve doue, I shall be glad to receive the criticisms wliich the use of this volume may suggest to my colleagues and students.