THE CUMULATIVE METHOD
Easy Lessons in German. An Introduction to the "Cumulative Method," adapted to School and Home Instruction. By Adolphe Dreyspring. Illustrated. 8vo. Cloth, 60 cents.
"The 'Easy Lessons in German' are just the thing I wanted. The book is the work of a teacher who knows the difficulties we encounter in the study of German and how to meet them from the beginning. I use the book with the greatest delight."--From Professor R. Geppert, Carlstadt, N. J.
"The book is admirable, as is also the higher book in German. They both fill a gap that has existed for some years."--From A. S. Downing, Principal of Union School, Palmyra, N. Y.
"I am using 'Easy Lessons in German' in a class of nineteen. I have never before seen so much enthusiasm manifested in the study of a language as is evinced by this class. I have also introduced in this school 'Easy Lessons in French.' The class is small but its members have an ever-growing interest in the French language. I expect to start a private class in German soon. I shall also use this method in that class, since I consider it the easiest, best, and quickest way to acquire a practical knowledge of the German language."--From Curtis R. Morford, Classical and Scientific Institute, Mount Pleasant, Pa.
"It is the best work I have seen, Dreyspring's 'Easy Lessons in German.'"--From Mabel A. Dyer, Omaha, Neb.
"Sie können versichert sein dass ich Ihre lobenswerthe Arbeit betreffs Ihrer Bücher schon viel und noch mehr der Öffentlichkeit zu bringen, mich befleisse."--F. Frankenstein, University Club, Montreal.
The "Easy Lessons" have been specially designed:
1. For those who have a constitutional aversion to all full-grown text-books.
2. For those to whom price is of paramount consideration; and
3. Last, but not least, for the children, the boys and girls of the primary classes, with whom, considering means to ends, a bulky book would be better adapted to filling school-straps and satchels than little heads.
"'Easy Lessons in German' is an abridgment, for younger pupils, of Adolphe Dreyspring's admirable 'Cumulative Method' and 'Verb-Drill.' His system is the wise one of giving everything in German, and teaching almost exclusively by dialogue. Moods and tenses, by this method, acquire an actual significance for the beginner--a great gain over the length and stupid conjugation of the entire verb at once."--The Critic.
"The book has been prepared for the children of primary classes, to whom a bulky book is inconvenient. It is an abridgment of the 'Cumulative Method' with some features of the 'Verb-Drill.' Pictures are placed at the head of the chapters and suggest the lessons. With these questions and answers and reading-lessons, the grammar of the language is almost unconsciously learned by the child. The idea of the book is an admirable one and seems to be well carried out."--Popular Educator, Boston, Mass.
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