PREFACE. THE title of this volume indicates its purpose, and every endeavour has been used to make it of practical service to Travellers, Traders, missionaries, and Soldiers, as well as to Students. A carefully prepared phonetic pronunciation is given throughout, the whole system of study being based on the way a child naturally learns to speak its native tongue. Thanks are due to Colonel F. FORJETT late of the Indian Army, President and Examiner in Hindtistiini of the Military Staff College, India, for the valuable suggestions he has given during the compilation of this treatise. The work has been divided into two volumes, the first- Hindfistiini Self-Taught -containing the matter most necessary for every-day requirements by those who find themselves in the midst of a strange people without any knowledge of their speech, whilst in the second- Hindiistiini Grammar Self-Taught --a simplified scheme of study is developed to give the learner a more thorough grasp of the language. In the...