MACMILLAN SPANISH SERIES UNDER THE GENERAL EDITORSHIP OF FREDERICK BLISS LUQUIENS SHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL OF YALE UNIVERSITY ELEMENTARY SPANISH-AMERICAN READER MACMILLAN SPANISH SERIES GENERAL EDITOR FREDERICK BLISS LUQUIENS PRACTICAL SPANISH GRAMMAR By VENTURA FUENTES and VICTOR E. FRANÇOIS. ELEMENTARY SPANISH-AMERICAN READER By FREDERICK BLISS LUQUIENS. SPANISH READER OF SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY By EDWARD WATSON SUPPLE. LEYENDAS HISTÓRICAS MEJICANAS By JAMES BARDIN. SPANISH-AMERICAN COMMERCIAL READER By GLENN LEVIN SWIGGETT. In preparation SPANISH-AMERICAN READER EDITED WITH EXERCISES, NOTES AND VOCABULARY BY FREDERICK BLISS LUQUIENS SHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL, YALE UNIVERSITY New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1917 All rights reserved PREFACE IT is the purpose of this book to furnish material for translation for students who wish to begin reading at a very early stage of their study of Spanish. With this purpose in view, the notes are both elementary and exhaustive, and the vocabulary contains all verb forms whose stems differ from the stem of the infinitive, and all other words which might give trouble to the beginner, such as combinations of verbs and pronouns, and irregular plurals. It is hoped that teachers will like the literal translations in the notes. In no case have free translations of difficult passages been given which do not show, at the same time, what the individual words mean. If teachers will require students to learn the literal, as well as the free translation of such passages, accuracy in translation will soon be attained. The notes of a beginning book should not only help the student in translation, but also afford him an opportunity of reviewing the rules he has learned in his grammar or composition book. This has been kept in mind in the preparation of the present notes. Grammatical rules are stated in full at their first occurrence in the |