NEW CONVERSATIONAL FRENCH COURSE

The First French Book.

i vol., 180 pages, cloth. 92nd Thousand. Price 10d.

GRAMMAR, EXERCISES, CONVERSATION, & VOCABULARIES. Drawn up according to the requirements of thé First Stage.

Adopted by the School Board for London, the Minister of Publié Instruction in Canada , etc., etc.

Every lesson is followed by a short dialogue for conversational practices. The volume comprises the whole Accidence. The rules are stafced in the clearesc possible manner. A chapter on the Philology of the Language, and some for reading and translation, a complété Index, and two complété Vocabularies, follow the Grammatical portion. Its moderate price and its completeness will make it one of the bost books for use in our Middle-Class and National School* and other large establishments.

The Second French Book.

i vol., 208 pages. 8th Edition. Cloth, price ls. GRAMMAR, EXERCISES, CONVERSATION, & TRANSLATION. Complété Vocabularies and a Set of Examination Papers.

Brawn up according to the requirements of the Second Stage.

The First Steps in French Idioms.

5th Edition. Cloth. Price ls. 6d.

Containing an Alphabetieal List of Idioms, Explanatory Notes, and Examination Papers. {See likewise under Idioms.)

The Key to the Above Three Books.

1 vol. cloth, price 2s. 6d. {For Ttachers only .)

The New Conversational First French Reader.

A Collection of Interesting Narratives, adapted for use in Schools, with a List of the Difficult Words to be Learned by Heart, Conversation, Examination Questions, and a Complété French-English Vocabulary. (See li/cewise under Graduated French Rendus. )

“M. Bué’s ‘First French Book’ is much to be commended. The lessons are * ery graduai, and the rules are explained with a simplicity that must greatly help both teacher and pupil. At the end of each lesson a short vocabulary, a model exercise, and a conversation are given. At the end of the verbs is a ‘ short chapter for the inquisitive,’ which is well worth getting up, even by more advanced pupils. The chief merit of elementary books of this kind lies in their arrangement, and in this respect we hâve seen no better book than M. Bué’s.” — School Guardian , Nov. 10, 1877.

“ A handy little volume, which may serve with advantage as an introduction to the study of more elaborate Works.” — The Pictorial World, Oct. 13, 1877.

Henri Bue* s New Ccnversational French Course ( Coniinued ). CRITICAL OPINIONS ( Continued ).

" This is one of the best first-boolcs to French that has ever been published. The difficulties of the language are presented in a sériés of exercises and lessons, through which the student is led before he réalisés that he has really had genuine difficulties presented to him. The vocabularies contained in the boolc hâve been selected very skilfully. ‘A short chapter for the inquisitive’ is excellent. There is a French-English vocabulary, containing nearly 1500 words in most frequent use.” — The Weelcly Times , Oct. 14, 1S77.

“This is a very excellent little work, and will be welcomed both in schcols and for private teaching. It bears the impress of an experienced teacher ; and is marked with great care in pointing out the peculiarities of the language in construction, idiom, and pronunciation. The printing also deserves a word of notice, the variations in termination, etc., to which it is desired to call attention, being given in excellent bold type — so that the utmost use is made of the eye — ■ probably the most powerful of ail senses in assisting the memory, especially in the case of young people. There is no doubt that it will quite fultil the author’s wish, modestly expressed in the préfacé, of becoruing ‘a useful and handy primer.’ ” — The London and China Express, Oct. 12, 1877.

“A great deal more of the information needed by a beginner than much larger works often contain will be found in this little pocket grammar and exercise book. Only an experienced teacher could so well anticipate the preliminary difficulties and remove them from the path of a young linguist as M Bué has done in his primer.” — Public Opinion, Nov. 10, 1877.

“ Her Majesty’s inspectors hâve strongly recommended to us your new sériés of French books by M. Bué.” — Strathaven, N. B.

“ Our pupil teachers hâve been using the First Book with very satisfactory results.”— Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

“ I am very pleased that their sterling merit is not only appreciated in England, but in America and Australia.” — W. F.

“ I hâve no hésitation in saying, that the compactness, as well as the general arrangement of the work, make it the best work of the kind that has yet corne under my notice.”— Dunmurr y, March 14, 1884. — R. H. G.

“Two admirable books.” — One of H.M. I. of Schools.

“My knowledge of their worth is formed upon the opinion of a friend, well versed in French. He says, ‘ they are admirable.’ One of H. M. I. of Schools.

“ I haveused M. Bué’s First and Second Books now for some years for large classes of children and pupil teachers, and hâve found them answer admirably.” — Leeds and District Pupil Teachers’ Prize Association.

“ I hâve used M. Bué’s little French Book with junior pupils, and find them excellent.”— Kingstown, Dublin, October 25, 1884.

“ This isa book, small as regards size and price, but containing in quantity at least matter which would furnish four far larger and more pretentious volumes. M. Bué’s method and treatment are excellent ; to any person unacquainted with French, but wishing to study that language, or to any teacher wishing to form classes for its study, we can cordially recommend his work. Books for use in school or class are often compiled by others than teachers, and the resuit i& not always satisfactory. M. Bué is a teacher himself, and his lessons show that he understands the difficulties his brethren may labour under, and the best means by which they can be surmounted- We are glad to learn that the volume under notice has been adopted by the London School Board.” — The Irish Teachers’ Journal, Feb. 2, 1878.

“ This little book is a model both of cheapness and of completeness. In 150" pages it gives beginners the principal rules of the French Accidence, thusenabling them to practise conversation after a very few lessons. M. Bué commences by a list of easy and useful words to be learned by heart ; the elementary grammar cornes next, each chapter being folio wed by a vocabulary and two exercises. The reading lessons which terminate the volume are amusing anecdotes of graduated difficulties, and the vocabularies are so compiled as topreclude the necessity of a separate dictionary. The pupil has thus in a very small duodecimo ail the help he requires towards a quick and easy mastery of the éléments of the French language.” — School Board Chronicle,

Brachet’s Public School Elementary French Grammar.