O'Connor John C., Zamenhof L.L. Esperanto (the Universal Language): the Student's Complete Text Book

New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1903. — 175 p. Containing full grammar, exercises, conversations, commercial letters, and two vocabularies.This Grammar of the Auxiliary International Language, ''Esperanto" has had the great advantage of tlie personal supervision of the founder, Dr. Zamenhof. That it has been prepared to supply a want is not a mere facon de parler. For some months past hundreds of enquirers, from home and abroad, have written urgently requesting a grammar suitable for English students. These enquirers, for the most part, came to know of the existence of ''Esperanto'' through the medium of pamphlets, leaflets, letters in the public Press, etc., which could give, of necessity, only the merest idea and outline of the language. These numerous demands might have been met at an earlier date, but I deemed it a duty to wait until I could place before the public som.ething more than a scrappy or incomplete text-book. My chief desire and aim has been to prepare a Grammar, which, while being complete in all its parts and containing everything that is necessary for a sound knowledge of the language, should be brief, clear, full, but not redundant. Have I succeeded in attaining those ends ? The answer to that is left to the candid judgment of all who take up and study this book. Their verdict I hopefully await.