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PREFACE.
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in foot-notes, especially where the same original is rendered in different ways. In nearly all cases the stress is indicated by accent-mark. Vowels have continental pronunciation. Y before a vowel makes a diphthong, as in L-yof.

New York, June 1, 1887.