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PEEFACE TO THE AMEKICAN EDITION.

It is the expérience of many teachers that the study of a living foreign language can best be pursued, after a student has acquired some familiarity with the éléments, by means of a grammar written in that language itself. It is for such students that the présent work is designed. Presupposing such an acquaintance with the French language as will enable the pupil to read the book itself, it undertakes by two graduated courses, which are so arranged that they may be pursued either together or separately, to introduce him to the finer distinctions and grammatical niceties of the language. In two respects it differs from othér French grammars written in French. It is composed expressly for those to whom English is native, and the more important points of différence in the usages of the two languages will be found to be carefully indicated. It contains also a séries of exercises, illustrative of the rules, to be translated into French. If some of thèse sentences bear évidence in their structure of having been translated from French into English, the hint of the French idiom which they suggest will perhaps tend to correct in the student

iv Préface to the American édition.

the common fault of writing English phrases in French

word s.

In the préparation of the American édition, a few

changes hâve been made, winch, it is hoped, will render

tin.- work oot lésa worthy of the favor with which it has

been reoeived in Emjland.

Yale Collège, May 18, 1*W