The Book is intended for beginners and in writing it these words of Sir Thomas Elyot have not been forgotten Grammer beinge but an introduction to the understandinge of autors if it be made to longe or exquisite to the lerner it in a maner mortifieth his corage And by that time he cometh to the most swete and pleasant redinge of olde autors the sparkes of fervent desire of lernynge are extincte with the burdone of grammer lyke as a lyttell fyre is sone quenched with a great heape of small stickes.ampampnbspampampnbspThe Exercises in translation will it is believed furnish all the drill necessary to enable the student to retain the forms and constructions given in the various chapters. The Selections for Reading relate to the history and literature of King Alfreds day and are sufficient to give the student a firsthand though brief acquaintance with the native style and idiom of Early West Saxon prose in its golden age.ampampnbspMost of the words and constructions contained in them will be already familiar to the student through their intentional employment in the Exercises.ampampnbspAdvance sheets of the second part of this great work lead one to believe that when completed the three parts will constitute the most important contribution to the study of English syntax that has yet been made. Old English sentences have also been cited from Sweets AngloSaxon Reader Brights AngloSaxon Reader and Cooks First Book in Old English.ampampnbspThe short chapter on the Order of Words has been condensed from my Order of Words in AngloSaxon Prose Publications of the Modern Language Association of America New Series Vol.