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of Accounts     CHIOAQO: S. R. WINCJ|lJ5,.L.Cr" ^GQrriiJ gY
SEP 2 5 |       fT>HIS book demands no previous knowledge of any
language, except  English. While linguistic training would, of
course, be a great  assistance to the learner, yet in framing my
explanations, in select-  ing terms and in foreseeing
difficulties, I have had in view the wants of  persons who take
up the study of Volaptik next after that of their mother
tongue. These are the persons most to be benefited by an
international  language, and this is its natural place in a
course of study. 1 have, there-  fore, rigidly excluded all
reference to any language except the two in ques-  tion-
-English, already known, and Volapiik, to be acquired. A fair
knowledge of English grammar is presuppose