New York: D. Appleton, 1888. — 293 p. An easy and agreeable method of acquiring a speaking knowledge of the Spanish language.
All nations have been, and continue to be, abundantly supplied with new methods of acquiring foreign languages; but, has any one - of these theories succeeded to any extent in producing that speaking knowledge which is the first essential to mutual communication? Tongue and language were synonymous, but the interpretation thereof has been wofully perverted; since, among the thousands in this great city who have studied a foreign language, how many may there be capable of common conversation in the tongue which they considered as a necessary appendage to a polite or commercial education? Alas! how few! The author of this little work aims at nothing new ; has no magical method of imparting a whole language for 25 cents; has no new theory to advance; but wishes herein simply to demonstrate, that if a little child can learn to speak a language tnthout difficulty, much more easily may the same instinct matured by reason and experience, obtain (he same knowledge, in the same old-fashioned way, Try it , you cannot fail of success.