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Page 10 - Lebahn's German Language in One Volume. Seventh Edition, containing— I. A Practical Grammar, with Exercises to every Rule. II. Undine; a Tale: by DE LA MOTTE FOUQUE. with Explanatory Notes of all difficult words and phrases. III. A Vocabulary of 4,500 "Words, synonymous in English and German. Crown Svo. 8s. cloth. With Key, 10s. 6d. Key separate, 2s. 6d. 'The best German Grammar that has yet been published.
Page 5 - We strongly advise students who have read carefully a good French Grammar, to read this excellent book, and they will soon find their knowledge of the language enlarged, and, to a great extent, perfected.
Page 10 - Lebahn's plan is to make the learning of German especially easy to English students, who will very soon feel, under his teaching, that they may learn a great deal of German with little labour.'— GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. * Mr. Lebahn's method is clear, simple, and easily followed, everything like intricacy being carefully avoided.'— MORNING CHRONICLE.
Page 3 - J'ai cherché du mal dans votre ouvrage, mais je n'en ai pas trouvé ; je me suis fait critique, j'y ai perdu ma peine, car tout était juste, vrai. Vous avez retranché bien des inutilités dans le commencement, et dans la syntaxe que j'ai parcourue avec soin vous avez franchement abordé les difficultés et fait admirablement sentir les délicatesses de notre langue.