OF GRAMMAR, CONVERSATION, AND LITERATURE

New Edition. Price 3s.

*#* This new Work is on a totally different plan from the ordinary run of Readers and Conversation Books. from which grammatical knowledge is gemrally excluded. The Manualis divided into 80 lessons. Each lesson, which may be prepared in part or wholly accordiDg to the ability of the pupil, contains tbree divisions : —

lstly, A set of examination questions and answers on grammar.

*2dly, A familiar conversation of a modem type on a given subject

3roly, A biographical sketch of and quotation from a noted French writer, with hints for the translation of difficult expressions, historioal notes, &c.

The whole Book thus forms an extensive examination paper on grammar, with 461 questions and answers systematically and progressively arranged ; a set cf eighty familiar conversations on given subjects ; and a Reader, or elementary course of literature, containing eighty biographical sketches of and quotationa fiom the best French prose writers and poets, in chronological order.

This French Manual is intended to be a useful as well as a necessary adjuncfc to any French grammar that may be in the hands of pupils.

“M. Baume has succeeded, by means of a chronological sériés of classical quotations, in tracing the development of French literary style. The excerpts are of the most diversified character, and include specimens from the writings of eighty authors, ranging from Rabelais to Hugo and Taine. A novel and excellent feature is the introduction of brief biographie sketches of the various writers.” — Educational News.

“ Together, these three works form an almost idéal sériés, yet each may be employed independently, or in conjunction with other class-books. They ai e ail capitally got up, and may be safely recommended for private as well as for class use.”— Educational News.