NEW CONVERSATIONAL FRENCH COURSE

The First French Book.

I vol., i8o pag^es, cloth. 92nd Thousand. Price lOd. GRA:\IirAK, EXERCISES, CONVERSATIOX, & VOCABULARIES.

Drawa up acoording to tbe requirements of the First Stage.

Adopted by the, ISch^ol Hoard for L-^ridia, the Minister of Publié

Iiistr'iction i't Canada, etc., etc.

Every lesson is followed by a short dialogue for conversational practices. The volume comprises tlie whole Accideiice. Tlie rules are statel in the clearesc pos.-5il)le manner. A chapter on the Fhilology of the Lauguage, anJ souie for reading and translation, a complète Index, and two complète Vocabularie.;, folio \v the Grammatical portion. Its raoderate price and its completeness will if.ake it one of tlie bost books for use in our Middle-Class and National Schools and other large establishments.

The Second French Book.

I vol., 208 pages. 8th Edition. Cloth, price Is.

GRAMMAU, EXERCISES, CO^iVERSAriOX, & TRAN'SLATION".

Complète Vocabularies and a Set of Examination Papers.

Drawn up according to the requirements of the Second Stage.

The First Steps in French Idioms.

5th Edition, Cloth. Price Is. 6d.

Containing an Alphabetical List of Idioms, E.^planatory Notes, and Examination Papers. {See likewis& under Idioms.)

The Key to the Above Three Books.

I vol. cloth, price 2s. 6d. {For Teachers only.)

The New Conversational First French Reader.

A Collection of Interesting Narratives, adapted for use in Schools, with a List of the DiSicult Words to he Learned by Heart, Conversation, Examination Questioas, and a Complète French-English Vocabulary. [See likewise undir Gradaated French Readsrs.)

"M. Bué's 'First French Book' is much to be commended. The lessons ara <ery graduai, and the rules are explained with a simplicity that must greatly help both teacher and pupil. At the end of each lesson a short vocabulary, a model exercise, and a conversation are given. At the end of the verbs is a 'short chapter for the inquisitive,' which is well worth gettingiip, even by more advanced pupils. The chief merit of elementary books of this kind lies iii their arrangement, and in this respect we hâve seen no better book than M. Bué's." — School Guardian, Nov. 10, 1877.

" A handy little volume, which may serve with advantage as an introduction to the study of more elaborate works." — The Pictorial World, Oct. 13, 1877.

Henri Bues New Conversational French Course {Coniinued). CEITICAL OPINIONS {Continued).

" This is one of the best first-books to French that has ever been published. The difficTilties of the language are présentée! in a séries of exercises and lessons, through which the student is led before he realises that he has really had genuine difiSculties presented to him. The vocabularies contained in the book hâve been selected verj- skilfully. 'A short chapter for the inquisitive" ia excellent. There is a French-English vocabularj-, containing nearly 1500 worda in most fréquent use." — The Wcekly Times, Oct. 14, 1S77.

"This is a very excellent little work, and wiM be welcomed both in schcola and for private teaching. It bears the impress of an experienced teacher ; and is marked with great care in pointing out the peculiarities of the lauguage in construction, idiom, and pronunciation. The printing also deserves a word of notice, the variations in termination, etc., to which it is desired to call attention^ being given in excellent buld type — so that the utmost use is made of the eye — • probably the most powerful of ail sensés in a^^Lsting the memory, especially in. the case of young people. There is no doubt that it wiU quite f uïtil the author's wish, modestly expressed in the préface, of becor.iing 'a useful and handy primer.'" — The London and China Express, Oct. 12, 1S77.

"A great deal more of the information needed by a beginner than much larger works often contain will be found in this Uttle pocket grammar and exercise book. Only an experienced teacher could so weÛ anticipate the preliminary difficulties and remove them from the path of ayoung linguist as il. Bué has done in his primer." — Publie Opinion, Nov. 10, IS. /.

" Her Majesty's inspectors hâve strongly recommended to us your new série.-» of French books by M. Bué."— Str.^thaven, N.B.

" Our pupil teachers hâve been using the First Book with very satisfactory results."— Newcastle-upon-Ttxe.

" I am veiy pleased that their sterling merit is not only appreciated in England, but in America and Australia." — W. F.

" I hâve no hésitation in saj-ing, that the compactness, as 'well as the gênerai arrangement of the work, make it the best work of the kind that has yet corne undermy notice."— DUNMLRR Y, Marchl4, 1SS4.— R. H. G.

"Two admirable books." — OxE OF H.M. I. oF ScHOOLS.

" My knowledge of their worth is formed upon the opinion of a friand, well versed in French. He says, 'they are admirable.' "—One of H.M. I. of Schools.

" I hâve used M. Bué's First and Second Books now for some years for large classes of children and pupil teachers, and hâve found them answer admirably." — Leeds and District Pupil Te.\chers' Prize Association.

" I hâve used M. Bué's little French Book with junior pupils, and find them excellent."- KiNG5T0w>', Dublin, Octcber 25, 18S4.

" This isa book, small as regards size and price, but containing in quantityat least matter which would f umish four far larger and more prétentions volumes. M. Bué's method and treatment are excellent ; to any person unacquainted with French, but wishing to study that language, or to any teacher wishing to form classes for its study, we can cordially recommend his work. Books for use in school or class are often compiled by others than teachers, and the resuit is not always sati- f actorj'. 31. Bué is a teacher himself, and his lessons show that he understands the difficulties his brethren may labour under, and the best means by which they can be surmounted- We are glad to leam that the --olume under notice has been adopted by the London Schooi Bo^d."— The Irish Teachers' Journal, Feb. 2, 1878.

" This little book is a modelboth of chcapness and of completene.ss. In 1.50 pages it gives beginners the principal rules of the French Accidence, thua enabling them to practise conversation after a verj' f ew lessons. M. Bué commences by a list of eas3' and useful words to be leamed by heart ; the elementary grammar cornes next, each chapter being followed by a vocabulary and two exercisei. The reading lessons which terminate the volume are amusing anecdotes of graduated difficulties, and the vocabularies are so compiled as to preclude the necessitj' of a separate dictionary. The pupil has thus in a very email duodecLmo aU the help he requires towards a quick and easy mastery or the éléments of tie French language." — Schooi Board Chronicle.

Brachet's Public School Elementary French Grammar.