IV PREFACE

of this oral class work. The model lesson (page 128) shows in what manner the pupil is enabled to do this home work without learning by heart, copying, speaking English, or translating.

Teachers worn out with the daily correction of written exercises and discouraged by seeing pupils throw their carefully corrected papers into the waste basket, without even looking at them save to see whether the "mark" is "high" or "low," will find in the self-corrected lessons a veritable boon. Their prime importance, however, is not the relieving of the teacher from an irksome and futile task, but their inestimable pedagogical value to the student. Anyone desiring to see some of these self corrected exercises may obtain them on request.

For particulars in regard to a normal course and other courses in the Knowles-Favard system, address New School of Conversational French, Fine Arts Building, Chicago, 111.

Throughout this book frequent references are made to Perfect French Possible (P. F. P), 1 a little book by the same authors, which gives infallible rules for the production of all French sounds, as well as rules for rhythm which are to be found in no» other published work. The practice and drill for the perfection of sound and rhythm as presented in Perfect French Possible may be taken up before the Grammaire de la Conversation or simultaneously with it. For phonetic symbols see Chart of French Sounds, p. 127. Exceptions to the rules of pronunciation are noted in the vocabulary.

This method is not in its experimental stage; for, during the long years that the book has been in preparation, the lessons, in the form of leaflets, have been tested by daily use in the class room with such success, in the results obtained as to warrant their publication in book form.

*D. C. Heath & Co., publishers.