A COMPLETE COURSE FOR BE6INNERS

By ALPHONSE N. VAN DAELL,

Frofessor of Modem Languages in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, formerly Director of Modem Languages in the Boston Public Schools.

Price for introduction, $i.oo.

This îs a complète first year bock, compact and concise and yet full enough to be accurate and thorough. It is in two Parts : Part I. consists of exercises and refers constantly to Part II. which is a brief French grammar. For the elementary courses in collèges, seminaries, académies and high schools it is believed to possess peculiar excellences.

I. It is truly practical, that is, it îs based upon Practical connected language and it provides référence to a

connected statement of grammatical rules. The par-

ticular attention of instructors is invited to this feature,

not to be found in other books.

Conver- 2. The method of the book permits the introduction

sational ^^ conversational exercises at any stage of the course,

and whenever the teacher wishes. The teacher is Aids the guided in this conversational work, and so with the aid Teacher o^ this book a comparatively inexperienced instructor

can employ oral teaching with safety and satisfaction. Fresh and 3. The exercises are not of the OUendorffian pattern Interesting but are interesting in themselves. Besides this, they

are French in substance as well as in form : they refer Fhoroughly to France, to French ideas, French hîstory, French French customs, etc. In a word, the pupil breathes the very

atmosphère of the country whose language he is

studying.

Available 4* This introduction can be used with any reader

or set of reading books.

The long expérience of the author has been ably supplemented by the criticisms of eminent scholars and successful teachers.

GINN & COMPANY, Publishers,

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