Excerpt from Modern Language Teaching, Vol. 10 If a man of mature mind and general education, but without any special train ing, desires to acquire some knowledge, say, of Spanish or Norwegian, or Hun garian, and to obtain some real insight into the literature, Whom is he to consult, and to what books is he to go? Even at the University if a young man wishes to begin the study of such a language, have we anything to set before him other than books and methods designed for beginners on the lines of school teaching? Do we. Not, in dealing with subjects that have not been learnt at school, tend to con tinue school methods which assume that the student is being taught, rather than that he is teaching himself? School teach ing is designed not only to give the pupil a knowledge of the language, but to train the unformed mind, and to exercise the intellectual powers. When the mind has been trained by the systematic methods of school teaching, is it necessary or advisable that it should pass through the same mill again? I put all this in the form of a question because I am not at all sure of my ground, and therefore hesitate to make positive statements. But I wish to ask whether what I know to prevail in subjects with which I am familiar does not also prevail in others with which I am less acquainted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.