FOR BEGINNERS IN SCHOOL OR COLLEGE WITH NOTES AND VOCABULARY BY EDWARD S. JOYNES, M. A. PROFESSOR IN SOUTH CAROLINA UNIVERSITY EDITOR OF JOYNES-MEISSNER GERMAN GRAMMAR, CLASSIC FRENCH THIRD EDITION. BOSTON, U. S. A. PUBLISHED BY D. C. HEATH & COMPANY 1892 AMCATION LIBO Copyright, 1889, Educaties PRESSWORK BY BERWICK & SMITH, BOSTON, U.S.A. Add 1 งา 1789 ΤΟ PROFESSOR M. SCHELE DE VERE, PH. D., J. U. D., LAST SURVIVOR OF MY ILLUSTRIOUS TEACHERS UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA 1850-53 This Tribute of Grateful Remembrance E. S. J. 720 EDUC. LIBRARY PREFACE. THE Scope of this book is indicated in its title: it is a German Reader for Beginners only designed to occupy the first year of German study, or so much thereof as may be assigned to such reading. The need for more elaborate Readers has, happily, ceased to exist. Within recent years we have been supplied with an abundance of independent, and more or less complete, editions of German literature in every style, with all necessary helps. The function of the Reader, therefore, need now be only introductory — giving such more elementary help as may enable the student, in the shortest possible time, to read elsewhere for himself. The aim has been to confine this book, strictly, within these introductory limits. The selections, it is hoped, are all consistent with this design. They are intended as an introduction not to German literature, but simply to the reading of German. No effort has been made to secure novelty. Many of the pieces may be called "well worn but only because of their approved excellence. Even original pieces would soon become well worn, for the teacher, after a few years' use; but all selections are new for the beginner. It is only requisite that they be good and fit - above all, easy and desirable that they be entertaining, too. These requirements, it is believed, are met in the present collection. No piece has been excluded because it has occurred, even frequently, in other Readers; but some lines especially |