Excerpt from The First German Reader: To Succeed the "First Book in German"The selections in poetry are great favorites with the children, many of these being famil iar as household words to every German child. Their popularity is owing to their charming fresh and nervous style, and their earnest appeals to the best feelings of the human heart. It would be an interesting exercise for the pupil to commit these little poems to memory.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.