Motti Pietro. Elementary Russian Grammar

Second Edition Improved and Enlarged. — Heidelberg: J. Groos, 1901. — 178 p.The textbooks of the Gaspey-Otto-Sauer method have, within the last ten years, acquired an universal reputation, increasing in proportion as a knowledge of living languages has become a necessity of modern life. The chief advantages, by which they compare favorably with thousands of similar books, are lowness of in-ice and good expearance, the happy union of theory and practice, the clear scientific basis of the grammar proper combined with practical conversational exercises, and the system, here conceived for the first time and consistently carried out, by which the pupil is really taught to speak and u)rite the foreign language. The grammars are all divided into two parts, commencing with a systematic explanation of the rules for pronunciation, and are again subdivided into a number of Lessons. Each Part treats of the Parts of Speech in succession, the first giving a rapid sketch of the fundamental rules, which are explained more fully in the second. In the first Part attention is given rather to Etymology; in the second Part more to the Syntax of the language; without, however, entirely separating the two, as is generally the case in Systematic Grammars. The rules appear to us to be clearly given, they are explained by examples, and the exercises are quite sufficient.