As the author's Spanish Grammar, published nearly ten years ago, has met with such marked favor with teachers of Spanish and still continues to hold its own, it was thought that a book along the same lines but containing less detail and, in some respects, simpler in its general treatment, would prove acceptable to those whose classes can not devote to the study of Spanish the time necessary to a mastery of the larger work. With this end in view, an endeavor has been made, in the present work, to treat only such features of the grammatical mechanism of the language as are essential for the reading of ordinary Spanish. As the teaching of the older book is believed to be sound in every way, the same treatment has been adhered to and most of the same material has been used, but it has been recast and simplified in many ways. The exercises are new throughout and, where convenient, have been incorporated in the text where they properly belong. These exercises cover all the verbs, regular as well as irregular, and, in this respect, will doubtless be found to be an improvement.