Excerpt from Notes and Vocabulary to Accompany Whitney's German Reader The second object is mainly gained, with out expenditure of words or loss of space, by the use of full-faced and small capital letters, as set forth and illustrated in the introductory explana tions to the Vocabulary. The third object is subserved by an etymological addition in brackets at the end of each article. Here I would carefully guard myself against being misunderstood as having attempted an etymological vocabulary proper. I have only sought to point out the regular internal processes of German derivation; to show what German words come from other German words, and how. If this limit is sometimes overstepped, it is done irregularly, and as it were involuntarily. A real etymological dictionary of German is a great desideratum; but an etymological partial vocabulary would, for its incompleteness, hardly be worth the labor it would cost, nor is such a work so much called for at the stage of German study which this Reader is especially intended to aid. 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.