Excerpt from Die Sieben Reisen Sinbads Des Seemannes IT IS believed that teachers of German in this country will find that there is a real need for such a book as Sinbad. The advanced student is well provided for, as we are rich in Classics, admirable Geistes nahrung for riper minds; the very young beginner is overwhelmed with the wealth of books suitable for him in language and story. But what of the luckless boy or girl beginner of riper age, either struggling with the too difficult language of a book suitable for them as to subject matter, or turning away with - we must ac knowledge it justifiable disgust from the books which, though adapted to them as to language, are meant to be read by children six or more years their juniors and which cannot possibly interest them in the least? It is to such that this selection from the Arabian N ights, written in the purest German and teeming with life and adventure, will be welcome; a boon to the teacher, who will not need to waste his energies in driving his pupils to study their lessons, and a genuine pleasure to the student, who will not need his teacher's coercion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.