7 DECEMBER 1867, Page 21

German for the English. First Reading - Book. By A. Sonnenscheirt and

J. S. Stallybrass. Second Edition. (D. Nutt.)—In order to con- quer the feeling of strangeness which meets a learner on the threshold of a new language, this excellent little book starts by giving him a list of the words which are most alike in German and English. It shows. him the changes through which certain words go in order to form part of one language or the other, and enables him to recognize the identity of sounds which are expressed by different letters. It thus leads him on almost imperceptibly to the construction of words and sentences, and if it does not attempt to overcome the difficulties which will beset his. path at a further stage, it has, at all events, put him in the way to. master them himself.