THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL GERMAN GRAMMAR. IN THREE PARTS. BY A. S. DE WELDYCZ, PH.D., PROFESSOR OF THE GERMAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE AT THE BURY GRAMMAR SCHOOL THE BURY ATHENEUM; ETC., ETC. "Mit Unvollkommenheit zu ringen, ist das Loos des Menschen. LONDON: LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. DUBLIN: M'GLASHAN AND GILL EDINBURGH: SETON AND MACKENZIE. GLASGOW: DAVID BRYCE & CO. MANCHESTER: GALT & CO. BURY: T. CROMPTON. THIS WORK, THE RESULT OF MANY YEARS' OBSERVATION, AND OF THE LABOUR OF THE MIDSUMMER VACATION, 1865, AUTHOR'S PREFACE. THE shortest and decidedly the surest way of learning a foreign language is to study it at once and thoroughly, according to a concise set of Grammatical Rules, which if applied practically to well arranged and suitable exercises will rapidly ensure proficiency. Long experience in the tuition of the youth of this country, and my position as German Master at several public and private schools and institutions, have induced me to compose and publish this little volume, hoping to spare through it much trouble to pupils and teachers. Before entering on its study let me earnestly impress on the learner's mind the golden maxim, "Never learn a fresh rule, or do an exercise upon it, unless you have perfectly understood and mastered the preceding one." At the same publishers may be had two Exercise |