BY G. J. ADLER

Prof, ofthe German Language and Literature in tne University of the City of New-Y<rrk. One neat Volume, 12mo. $1.

The favourable réception whichOUendorfif's German Grammar has received frorn the American public, has induced the Publishers and the Editor to comply with the very gênerai deraand for a German Reader.

Complaints, more or less loud, hâve been made bothby teacher and leamer, against m st of the Readers heretofore offered to the public in this country, as well as in England and German v. Books of this kind now in the market, may be reduced to two classes : lst. Sélections from t/f German Ciassics, or Elégant Extracts, corresponding somewhat to our English Readers. Oî' thèse, two deserve spécial notice, viz., George Muiil's Prose Axthology, (Carlsrulie and London, 1839,) and in this country, Follen's German Reader. The 'objections to the former are, that it ccntains no poems, and hence lacks an essential élément of an introduction to German Literature, and présents too little variety tothe leamer ; ithas, moreover, no vccabulary, and the most difficult passages are often left unnoticed in the annotations. The latter is, as i< regards the variety and the good taste exhibited in its matter, far superior to any other similai work, and has for many years been almost the only Reader in use among us. To learners noî classically educated, however, (and to many that are,) the pièces near the beginning are by far too difficult, and the assistance too scanty. The arrangement is not progressive, so that pièces near the end ofthe book are much easier than many in the beginning or middle.

2d. The second class of Readers are such as profèss to facilitatc the business of reading. They are geneially based on the Hamiltonian method, i. e., the pièces are accompanied with translations, either interlinear and litcral, cr frce and opposite. The difficulty with the bocks of this class is, that they leave the leamer where they found him, unable by himself to account for the grammatical construction of a sentence ; and when he lays aside the book to take Dp another, he finds that it is one thing to read by the aid of a translation and quiteanother to rea.i unders-tandingly. The principal b «oksof this class are Zimmer's German Tcac/tcr, (Heideiberg and L. ndr.n, 1839,) Gand's lÀtcrary Companion, (Frankfort, lï4J,) better in its sélections than the first. and Hokum's German Reader, (Philadelphia.)

The plan of this German Reader is as follows, viz.:

1. The pièces are both prose and poetry, selected from the best authors, and are so arranged as to présent sufficient variety to keep alive the interest of thescholar.

2. It is progressive in its nature, the pièces being at first very short and easy, and tncreasing in difficulty and length as the leamer advances.

3. At the bottom ofthe page constant références to the Grammar are made, the difficult pas sages are explained and rendered. To encourage the first attempt ofthe learuer as much n possible, the twenty-one pièces ofthe first section are analyzed, and ail the neces>ary words giran at the bottom ofthe page. The notes, which at fir>t are very abundant, diminish as the leamer ad van

4 It containsjîrp secti ns. The first contains easy pièces, chiefly in prose, with ail the words necessary for transla'im' them ; th» second, short pièces in prose and poetry altemately. with o gâoos notes and renderings ; the third, short popular taies of Grimm and others ; the fmirth , sélect ballads and other j oems from Bieroer, Goetite, Schiller, Uhland, Sciiw4.b, CiiAMif so. etc. ; tUefifth, prose extracts from the first ciassics.

5 .\\. the i ini is added a rocABULARY of ail the wnrda occurrin» in the book.

D. Appleton $,- Co. 's Edvcalitmal Publications.

ACCOMPANIMENT TO OLLENDORFFS ITALIAN GRAMMAR,

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