[Illustration: El Alcázar de Segovia]

A FIRST
SPANISH READER

_WITH QUESTIONS AND VOCABULARY_

BY ERWIN W. ROESSLER, PH.D.
=CHAIRMAN OF THE MODERN LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT HIGH SCHOOL OF COMMERCE,
NEW YORK, N.Y.=

AND
ALFRED REMY, A.M.
HIGH SCHOOL OF COMMERCE, NEW YORK, N.Y.

_Pen Drawings by CLARENCE ROWS_
AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY NEW YORK CINCINNATI CHICAGO







This Reader is the outgrowth of a desire for a textbook that combines
simplicity with variety. To make it available for use almost at the very
beginning of the Spanish course only the present tense has been employed
in the first twenty-three selections and difficult constructions have
been consistently avoided.