Alexandrow F. A New Practical and Easy Method of Learning the Russian Language

Fifth Improved Edition. — London: Franz Thimm, 1889. — 128 p.This is the only Grammar published for Self-Instruction jag he Russian Language with English Pronunciation, and is used by Officers passing the Military Staff Examination in that Language. A new and improved System of learning Foreign Languages. Tue study of foreign languages having become general, the methods of teaching them have altered and improved, so as to unite the changes which philology has suggested, with those which the comparison of languages has taught. The publisher has had this aim in view in the series of Foreign Grammars, which has been issued under the title of after an easy and improved method. These grammars combine Theory with Practice, and follow the ideas which eminent men have adopted, as to the clearest and most rational method of teaching languages. The celebrated philosopher Lesbnitz remarked: “My opinion with regard to grammar is this: most is learned by use -he rules must be added for finish,” and the learned philologist Facctolati observes: “I am indebted to the elassical authors for every thing I know, to the grammarians I owe nothing.”