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Théâtre Français.

A Sélection of Popular French Plays,

With Summaries of the Plots, and Explanatory Notes by some of the most distinguished and experienced French Masters in England.

General Editor: Professer HENRI TESTARD, B.A., B.D.,

Officier de V Instruction Publique ;

Membre de la Société des Gens de Lettres de France; Occasional Examiner for the

Civil Service Commissioners^ and Senior French Instructor at

the Royal Navai Collège^ Greenwick,

The Collection is divided into two Séries : —

The First Séries consists of clever and humorous plays, adapted, by their purity of tone and expression, for reading in Schools and Families. One of the main objects of this Séries is to enable young students to acquire, in the most interesting way, a sound knowledge of colloquial and idiomatîc French. The lively dialogues with their amusing witticisms, that occur in a Comedy, are calculated to impress both words and constructions more forcibly than the sentences of eut and dried Conversations»

The plays of the Second Séries are suited only for adult students, and are less restricted in the choice of subject and dialogue. This Séries will include some of the best spécimens of the French stage in its various aspects. A carefiil study of thèse plays, abounding in wit and humour, will afford a student the readiest means of mastering those subtleties of the language which it generally requires a long stay in France to appreciate thoroughly.

( The figures indicate the number o/characters : — M = male^ F -^female. )