Chapter I: Front Matter

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ANGLO-SAXON GRAMMAR

AND EXERCISE BOOK

With Inflections, Syntax, Selections
for Reading, and Glossary

By

C. ALPHONSO SMITH, Ph.D., LL.D.

Late Professor of English in the
United States Naval Academy

ALLYN and BACON
Boston New York Chicago
Atlanta San Francisco

Copyright, 1896, by
C. ALPHONSO SMITH.

IAI

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith
Norwood Mass. U.S.A.