Excerpt from Grammar of the German Language: For High Schools and Colleges, Designed for Beginners and Advanced Students His is the first thoroughly revised edition. Of the criti cisms of this work, I have been able to accept and embody especially those of Professor A. L. Ripley, of Yale College, and of Professor Geo. O. Curme, of Cornell College (iowa), to both of whom I express my sincere thanks. The strictures made upon my classification of nouns and upon the standard of pronunciation I do not think well founded. The classification of nouns is historical and scientific. If the standard pronunciation should finally settle upon kh, jh 375) for g and not upon lo (surd stop), nothing would please me better. Hard 9 except after u is a bitter pill for a North German. To the objection that the work is too concise, let me say, that I have tried to make it concise. The Accidence and Part II. Were once as large again as they are now. The first contained too much syntax, until, follow ing the excellent method of the French grammarians, I re solved to separate entirely inflection and syntax. I have in this edition transferred several paragraphs from Part I. To Part II. Part II. Is a historical foundation broad enough for Part I. To rest upon. It isnot intended to be a minute his torical reference-grammar for teachers and specialists only. 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.