Excerpt from Erstes Deutsches Buch Nach Der Naturlichen Methode Fur Schule Und Haus It is hoped that this little book will prove as useful to the school and the home as it has proved to the learners at Chautauqua, and that it may help to quicken the already lively interest of Americans in the language and literature of the Germans, whom Bayard Taylor calls the Greeks of modern civilization. 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.