The more you read German, the more you will like it.

I think our schoolmasters and schoolmistresses make a great mistake, generally, in the books they select for the instruction and familiarising of their pupils with foreign languages.

They appear, really, to choose the driest authors they can pick out! If I had anything to do with `teaching the young idea how to shoot,' I should adopt a very different plan." "Dear me!" she exclaimed, laughing.

"I can fancy I see you, a grim old pedagogue, with a pair of horn-rimmed spectacles and a snuff-coloured coat! What would be your new system, Mr Professor ?" "Well," said I, "in the first place, I should not dream of putting books like Schiller's dramas into their hands, as is the ordinary course, before they were able to translate pretty fluently, gathering the sense of what they read without the aid of a dictionary.

I say nothing against the masterpieces of the great German classic.