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PREFACE.
The demand for a third edition of " How to Read Gaelic" has
afforded the Authors an opportunity of making a few alterations
(jn the earlier editions. The Title has been altered at the
suggestion of some who considered that the work was well
adapted for a somewhat wider purpose than that of a mere
collection of Reading Lessons. The various sections of the
work have also been arranged in a more natnral and con-
venient order for practical use. Beyond this the book is
substantially a reproduction of the former editions.
The specific pieces (" Coire-na-Sithe," and " Finlay's Letter
to his Wife") provided to meet the rei|uirements of the first
stage of the Gaelic Scheme adajited tu the Gode by Mr Robert-
son, H.M.I S., have been retained, notwithstanding the
changes recently introduced by the Education Department.
These pieces, and indeed the whole work, are still suitable for
the first year or more of Pupil Teachers' work, the P.T.'s being
still liable to examination under the Gode, and retaining the
benefit of taking Gaelic at the King's Scholarship examination.
Of the two lessons — Calum Seòladair -AwaAvi Mac StrddhaU
— which are given with an interlinear literal English rendering,
it may be remarked that they contain a variety of practicable
and convenient phrases and idioms, the possession of which
by the pupil will form an important basis upon which to build
his acquisitions in Gaelic Grammar.
A. M.
J. W.
Inverness, April, 1902.