MATERIALS

FOR

GERMAN PROSE COMPOSITION;

OR,

Selections from Modern English Writers,

WITH

GRAMMATICAL NOTES, IDIOMATIC RENDERINGS OF DIFFICULT

PHRASES, ESSENTIALS OF GERMAN SYNTAX, PRELIMINARY

CHAPTERS ON PUNCTUATION AND THE DIVISION OF

WORDS IN GERMAN, AND A GRAMMATICAL INDEX.

BY

C. A. BUCHHEIM, PHIL. Doc., F.C.P.,

Professor of the German Language and Literature in King's College, London;

Examiner in German to the University of London, etc.

FOURTEENTH, EDITION,

With a List of Subjects for Original Composition.

LONDON: GEORGE BELL AND SONS,

YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

1891.

HARVARD

COLLEGE

DEC 13 938

Trans from German dept.

RICHARD CLAY & SONS, LIMITED,

LONDON & BUNGAY.

XII.-WORSE THAN HIS REPUTATION (W. G. Palgrave)

. (Capt. Hozier)

33

(Motley) 34

36

XIV. GOETHE AT THE AGE OF TWENTY (G. H. Lewes)

41.

XV. THE PILGRIMS.

XVI.-SLAVE-MAKING INSTINCT OF ANTS .

XVII. THE BATTLE OF THE ALMA

XVIII. THE APOSTLE OF THE GOTHS.

XIX. THE PRAIRIE

XX.

CHIVALRY IN SPAIN.

XXI. CHARLES THE GREAT

XXII.-LOVE OF FLOWERS

XXIII.-LIFE AMONG THE BEDOUINS

(G. Bancroft)

PAGE

44

(Darwin) 47

(Kinglake)

49

(Gibbon) 53

(E. Dicey)

55

XXVII.-A GERMAN HAUTBOY-PLAYER.

XXIX.-BEFORE THE BATTLE OF KÖNIGGRÄTZ (Capt.

XXX.-A DISPUTED BOUNDARY (Dr. W. B. Carpenter)

XXXI. THOMAS CARLYLE TO GOETHE (A Letter)

XXXII.-A STURDY SQUIRE

XXXIII.-THE HISTORY OF SCIENCES (Prof. Max Müller)

III. DEATH OF JAMES I. OF SCOTLAND (Prof. H.

102

IV. THE FIORDS OF NORWAY. (Miss Martineau) 103

V.-HELLENIC TRAITS IN MODERN PERSIA (The

VII. THE STUDY OF NATURE (The Rev. C. Kingsley) 112

X.-A BALL AT THE BASTILLE (The Rev. Prof. J.

XIV.-EMBARKATION OF AN ATHENIAN FLEET (George

XVI.-A LETTER FROM S. T. COLERIDGE.

XVII.-PIGEON CHASE IN SAMOA.

XVIII.-EARLY EXPERIENCES