speak in terms of high commendation. The plan adopted is simple and plain, and one which cannot fail to be most serviceable to every person desirous of reading German accurately. No one need despair of gaining every information respecting the idiom and construction of the language which is wanted, if he will only give himself diligently to the study of these books.-Weekly Messenger. We rejoice in another opportunity of bearing testimony to his merits.—Church of England Quarterly Review. The present work is admirably adapted to aid the scholar.-Weekly News. In this author we see the happy medium adopted between the old method of teaching languages and the Jacotot and Hamiltonian systems. He does not entirely dispense with grammar as the thema and fundamentum of his method, nor does he cry out "Grammar, grammar, and nothing else!" We were much pleased with the grammar he published some time since, in which we saw each rule almost simultaneously elucidated—the elucidation fixing the rule in the memory, and the rule doing the same with respect to the elucidation. The present work is a companion to the grammar, the technicalities of which the author supposes have been surmounted. It consists of an interlinear translation of the first three chapters of "Undine," but is very far from being left a bare translation. It is accompanied by a vast collection of notes bearing on the grammatical construction of the language, a knowledge of which, they are so various and minute, would enable the student not only to write correctly, but elegantly. With earnestness we recommend this book to persons studying German, but particularly to those who cannot have a master.-Bell's Life in London. Excellence of arrangement, completeness of contents, newness and simplicity of plan, judgement in the method, and ability in its general detail -these are the features of this admirable volume. It is the most valuable of its kind that has appeared. The study of German is now almost universal in polite society, and every one may with the aid of Mr. Falck Lebahn's excellent volumes obtain, with little labour and great certainty, a complete knowledge of it. We have thus pleasure in recommending them, not because they stand in need of favourable notice-for the whole press has complimented their author on his ability and success--but because we have practical knowledge of their utility, even in the case or very dull students. Indeed they have superseded most of their competitors, and are now distributed by thousands through the country. We owe Mr. Falck Lebahn our best thanks for thus opening, levelling, and clearing the road to a language which forms the passport for an introduction into a magnificent field of literature.-London Review. We feel bound to concur in the high eulogiums Mr. Lebahn has received from the press. The instructions are ample, and the illustrations lucid. To all who are seeking an acquaintance with the literature of Germany, this volume promises valuable aid.- Wesleyan Times. 12 Price 6s. 6d. THE SELF-INSTRUCTOR IN GERMAN, CONTAINING I. DER MUTHWILLIGE, (: The Wag: ), a Comedy in Five Acts, by Kotzebue. II. Der Neffe ALS ONKEL, a Comedy in Three Acts, by Schiller. We are exceedingly glad to have another opportunity of welcoming Mr. Lebahn to the field of literature he fills so well. His previous works, "German in One Volume," and "Practice in German," have been found of the greatest assistance to the German students who abound in the Army. Those whose education had been neglected before they entered the Service, and who have now but little time or opportunity of going through a course of grammatical instruction have derived essential advantage from a pursuit of the "royal road" mapped out by Mr. Lebahn. The present work is a material advance upon its predecessors. Its intention is to enable students of German to familiarise themselves with colloquial phraseology, to which end Mr. Lebahn has collected numerous examples on the Expletives so much used in common life. We earnestly commend Mr. Lebahn's labours to all military and other students.-United Service Gazette. A most practical work.-Britannia. One of the most amusing elementary reading books that ever passed under our hands.-John Bull. The student could have no guide superior to Mr. Lebahn.-Literary Gazette. We consider the Self-Instructor and its companion volumes, entitled to the highest praise that can be bestowed on works of this class. They are plain, practical, complete and well arranged.-Eclectic Review. We have had many elementary works upon German placed in our hands, but we venture to say that in none of them is its acquisition rendered so facile, or the difficulties and obscurities that present themselves upon the threshold so simply and intelligibly chased away.-Morning Herald. There is peculiar merit about this book.-Era. We very cordially commend Mr. Lebahn's works to all whom they concern, only taking leave to remark that, if the pupil will be only half as pains-taking as his master-talent apart, he will make a very accomplished German scholar. Christian Witness. Price Ss. 6d. A FIRST GERMAN READING BOOK, master. CONTAINING DAS TÄUBCHEN (the Dove), a tale for the Young. By CHRIST. SCHMID. With an INTRODUCTORY GRAMMAR, and a COMPLETE VOCABULARY. An admirable book for beginners, which indeed may be used without a The instructions are copious and plain; and a vocabulary is added which will enable the student to accomplish that desired and desirable object- the reading of a tale in the language he is just beginning. Only those who have had experience in teaching, can appreciate the stimulus given to the learner's amour propre by allowing the difficulties of the language to come late in the course of study, and by enabling the learner to read for himself, be it never so little. Schmid's story of Das Taubchen is the vehicle selected by Herr Falck Lebahn.-The Leader. An excellent elementary work.-Sunday Times. Like all Lebahn's works, most thoroughly practical.—Britannia. Price 3s. 6d. EICHENFELS, & DIALOGUES, CONTAINING IN WHAT MANNER HENRY CAME TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD. A TALE. BY CHRISTOPH SCHMID. WITH A COMPLETE VOCABULARY AND DIALOGUES, CONTAINING THE ORDINARY CONVERSATIONAL PHRASES. 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The Vocabulary is complete, and the collection of familiar sentences and dialogues contains the ordinary conversational phrases, and a very ample stock of both. Mr. Lebahn prefaces this volume with addresses to the Student how to proceed in the use of the book, whether with or without a master. The volume bids fair for commanding a very extensive circulation.-British Banner, Price 3s. 6d. PETER SCHLEMIHL, THE SHADOWLESS MAN; A TALE. RY A. VON CHAMISSO, WITH A VOCABULARY AND COPIOUS EXPLANATORY NOTES. Price 3s. 6d. (STEREOTYPE GERMAN EDITION.) UNDINE, A TALE, BY DE LA MOTTE FOUQUE, WITH NOTES. (ORIGINAL GERMAN EDITION.) WILHELM TELL, A DRAMA. BY SCHILLER. WITH A COMPLETE VOCABULARY. Price 3s. 6d. (ORIGINAL GERMAN EDITION.) GOETZ VON BERLICHINGEN, WITH THE IRON HAND. A DRAMA. BY GOETHE, WITH A COMPLETE VOCABULARY. Price 3s. 6d. PAGENSTREICHE, (A PAGE'S FROLICS.) A COMEDY. BY KOTZEBUE. WITH A COMPLETE VOCABULARY. BY FALCK LEBAHN. In Monthly Numbers, price 1s. 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