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been explained, with the exception of a few too well known or too
insignificant to justify comment. The notes are further reenforced by an
_Idiomatic Commentary_, to be studied in connection with the text. By
frequent reviews and by oral drill in translating the idioms from either
language to the other, with changes of person, tense, etc., wherever
possible, the Commentary should enable the student to attain to a real
mastery of the idioms that are here tabulated.

Easy exercises for translation into Spanish are added. They are based on
very short passages from the text, and are so graded and arranged as to
afford a systematic review of the elements of grammar, a drill which
beginners always need.

The vocabulary, while registering all the words in the text, except such
as are nearly or quite identical, does not aim at giving, without any
labor of adaptation on the part of the student, the precise equivalent
required.