I. A. Richards

This book teaches beginning German language through pictures only; the only clue you get to the meaning of new words are the pictures and the context of the story. Starting with "Ich bin ein Mann" ("I am a man") next to a stick drawing of a man, the book progresses in an ingenious and systematic way to teach "700 of the most widely useful words in the new language". The same author wrote similar books for other target languages such as English and Spanish.

Twenty-eight poems and a critical essay "The future of poetry."

Here is a book for learning English in the quickest and clearest way—through pictures. It will give you five hundred of the English words which will together do the most work, say the most things. For those with no knowledge of English at all, this book makes learning seem more like play than work.