GERMAN PROSE COMPOSITION

By CARL W. J . OSTH AUS, Professer ofGerman, Indiana University ; and ERNEST H. BIERM ANN, Instructor in German, Indiana University.

THE work in this book is based on consécutive prose, and is intended to develop rapidly ihe student's sensé of independence. The sélections are really new and fresh, and offer a wide range of material, being anecdotal and historical, taken from Germanie folklore, literature, and real life.

^ A portion ofthe elementary exercises is made up of three parts : a German sélection, a set of questions in German, and an English paraphrase of the preceding German sélection for translation into German. The German sélection forms the basis of the work which foUows, and should be studied thoroughly before the translation is worked out by the class. In the elementary part most of the sélections are preceded by a statement of the grammatical principles involvca, thus making it easy for the instructor to assign certain portions of grammar for review.

^ The questions in German, which are intended to be answered in German, afFord excellent practice work in the transposition of tenses or persons, and the changing from direct to indirect discourse, etc. As the sélections increase in length the questions are omitted. Copions footnotes throughout the book provide the needful suggestions and refer the student to sections of the digest of syntax which foUows the text. This digest, which is intended chiefly for the guidance of the inexperienced, is to be supplemented by the grammar with which the student is familiar. There are full German- English and English- German vocabularies at the end of the book.

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