HENRI BUE S CON VERSATIONAL FRENCH COURSE

This Course lias now attained a sale of over two million volumes— a striking testimony to ils worth aiul popularity. Its unparallelcd success niay be attriliuted to the fact that it réalisés tne liappy medium between the old methods, which laid too much stress on Rides and Exceptions ( making the task of the student a tedious one), and the so-called new or ‘Direct’ methods, which affect largely to ignore the methodical study of grammar.

Hachette’s Illustrated French Primer, or Child’s First French

Lessons. Containing the Alphabet, Easy Words and Phrases, Nursery Rhymes, Illustrations of Animais, Familiar Objects, etc. i6o pages. Cloth, 2S. 6d.

Early French Lessons. Including Easy Questions, Short Nursery

Rhymes, Anecdotes and Fables. 64 pages. Cloth, lod.

Teaches the young beginner as niany French words as possible in the least tedious manner. A\’hat children dislike most to learn are üsts of words, however useful and well chosen ; they very soon weary of disconnected sentences, but conimit to memory most readily a short nursery rhyme, anecdote, or fable. Hence the sélection made in this compilation.

The First French Book. (Conversational Elementary French

Grammar.) Accidence, Exercises, Conversation, Reading Pièces, Vocabularies. Synopsis of Rides, etc. Revised and Enlarged Edition. 238 pages. Cloth, 2S.

Coiitains more practical matter than is generally found in larger and more prétentions volumes. Simplicitj' of style and perspicuity of exposition impart great clearness to the instructions. The volume stands unrivalled as the cheapest an t most popular work of its class.

Phonetic Companion to the ‘First French Book,’ giving Pronun-

dation of the Model Exercises and Reading Lessons in the Phonetic Synibols of the Association Phonétique Internationale. With Introduction enabling Students to read Texts printed in the Characters of the Association. 6d.

One Hundred and Fifteen Supplementary Exercises to the First

French Book, with comprehensive Vocabularies. Cloth, lod.

The Second French Book. Grammar, Exercises, Conversation,

Translation, Vocabularies and Examination Papers. 212 pages. Cloth, 2s.

First Steps in French Idioms. Alphabetically arranged with Notes,

Exam. Papers, and 1,000 Phrases to be turned into Idiomatic French. 192 pages. Cloth, 2S.

Key TO THE First and Second Books and to the First Steps in French Idioms {/or Teachers only)^ in one vol. Cloth, 2s. 6d. net.

The Elementary Conversational French Reader. Short Conversa-

tional Pièces, Questions, Notes, Answers, Vocabulary, etc. 80 pages. Cloth, is.

The New Conversational First French Reader. Interesting Narra-

tives, Conversations, Questions and Vocabulary. 224 pages. Cloth, is. gd.

Easy French Dialogues, for beginners and young pupils. 80 pages.

Cloth, gd.