Excerpt from A Course in German Composition, Conversation and Grammar Review: For Use in Schools and Colleges Of the reading matter at the disposal of the author, thirty-two pieces have been selected for this volume as the groundwork for just as many lessons, which the author thinks can be thoroughly studied in one school year of thirty-six weeks, allowing one recitation at the end of each quarter for reviewing, sight reading, or extempore writing. The German selections include narrative, epistolary, descriptive, and easy essay styles, and, being carefully graded, they rise from the light and pleasing mystery of the nursery tale to the sober disquisition of the scientific theorem. For this reason, and Since no two of these selec tions have come from the pen of the same writer, they naturally differ greatly in regard to diction and phrase ology, a feature not to be underrated in a book purporting to serve as an introduction to composition 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.