(INSTRUCTOR IN MODERN LANGUAGES IN BROWN UNIVERSITY.) Third Edition, ENLARGED AND RE-WRITTEN. NEW-YORK: D APPLETON & COMPANY, 443 & 445 BROADWAY. 1866. HARVARD ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1851, BY D. APPLETON & CO., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. THIS Volume, which is offered as a second edition of the Primary Lessons, might with more propriety be called a new work, having been entirely re-written, and resembling the other only in its general plan. The list of words, which, in the first edition, was copious, is, in this, reduced to a small number in the body of the Lessons, and given in the form of a Methodical Vocabulary at the end. The reasons for avoiding the introduction of many new words in the early stages of the pupil's progress, assigned by Professor Kendrick in his Greek Ollendorff, a work which has put that most difficult and beautiful of languages within the reach of a child of ten, will be conclusive with every practical teacher. At the same time, there is a certain class of words which must be learnt from a vocabulary, and which, as long as they are not mixed up with the lessons of construction, can be learnt better at the beginning than at any other time. One may read a great many books without meeting with half the names of physical objects that he ought to know, and even if he should, the best of memories will be unable to retain them, and the most industrious scholar hardly patient enough to write out every new word he meets, and repeat them all over till he knows them by heart. A good vocabulary should form a part of every elementary work upon language. The space gained by this new arrangement has been filled with model phrases, and a fuller development of the laws of inflection and construction than is usually found in a volume of this size. The eighteenth, |