Walter Ripman

INTRODUCTION This work presents conversations spoken by members of the Brockwill family and their friends in the course of a single day. The family consists of Mr. Brockwill, professor of languages, inspector of schools, and director of a Holiday Course; Mrs. Brockwill, the mother of the family;...

PREFACE During the twenty-five years that have passed since the First English Book was issued it has made its way into many countries. Probably it can be said of few books for teaching a foreign language that they have been found equally serviceable in Sweden and in Siam, in Chile and in China,...

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITIONNine years ago I sent forth my First English Book, wondering greatly how it would be received. It had been a labour of love, as well as a fascinating linguistic enterprise; but would it prove in practice as helpful a " guide book on the road to English " as I hoped 1...

PREFACE My First English Book for Boys and Girls whose Mother-tongue is not English has met with gratifying success since its pubHcation some thirty years ago. The book is necessarily somewhat childish in tone; and I have received many requests for a book more suitable for grown-up students of...