A SERIES OF FRENCH TEXTS
Under the general editorship of Dr. Max Walter and Anna Woods Ballard, M.A., Diplômée de l'Association phonétique internationale, Assistant Professor of French in Columbia University, in charge of French in the School of Practical Arts, Teachers College, Columbia University.
These books will present some novel features that will appeal to progressive teachers. The text will be divided into reading-sections, each directly followed by explanations, questions, and exercises, all in French. Now ready.
George Sand's "LA MARE AU DIABLE.'; Edited by Marie Karcher Brooks, Instructor in French in the Horace Mann School, Columbia University. Price 60 cents
"CONTES DIVERS," a collection of short stories by such eminent French writers as Claretie, Daudet, Lemaître, Maupassant, Coppée, Sardou, Arène, and Bazin, edited with explanations, questions, and exercises by Hélène J. Harvitt, Instructor in French in Teachers College, Columbia University. Price 60 cents
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
NEW YORK CHICAGO BOSTON
ATLANTA SAN FRANCISCO
BEGINNERS» FRENCH
By Anna Woods Ballard, M.A., Diplômée de l'Association phonétique internationale, Assistant Professor of French in Columbia University, in charge of French in the School of Practical Arts, Teachers College, Columbia University.
Price $1.20
This is the basic book of the Walter-Ballard French Series. It presents the essentials of French grammar and a systematic study of the French verb in a carefully developed series of sixty-three lessons. These are followed by selections for reading, an outline of French grammar in French, a group of the best-known French songs with music, and a vocabulary.
The usefulness and attractiveness of the book are greatly increased by a map of France, a phonetic chart in colors, eight full-page half-tone illustrations, and five large line-drawings representing a kitchen, a dining-room, a bedroom, a drawingroom, and the interior of a railroad station, designed to supplement by the direct appeal to the eye the lessons in the text.
The book embodies the best features of the Direct Method and has been carefully planned to meet conditions in our American schools. The following features are noteworthy:
