PONSARD.— Charlotte Corday
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MACMILLAN AND CO., Ltd., LONDON.
By OTTO SIEPMANN and L. F. VERNOLS
PRELIMINARY FRENCH LESSONS. Crown 8vo. is. '^d
SCHOOLMASTER.—"ThoTo\ighn^si is the keynote of the llttle book, and there is no doubt that young people taught on this method will be provided with an excellent groundwork on which to build a sound knowledge of the French language."
By OTTO SIEPMANN.
PRIMARY FRENCH COURSE. First Term. lUustrated by H. M.
BkOCK. Ciown 8vo. is. gd.
PRIMARY FRENCH COURSE. Part I. Illustrated by H. M. Brock. Crown 8vo. 3s.
Word- and Phrasebook for Primary French Course. Part I. Crown Svo. 6d.
PRIMARY FRENCH COURSE. Part II. Crown Svo. 3s. Word- and Phrasebook for Primary French Course. Part II. Crown Svo. 6d.
PRIMARY FRENCH COURSE. Part III. Crown Svo. 3s. Word- and Phrasebook for Primary French Course. Part III. Crown Svo. 6d.
Wall Picture representing Incidents in "Primary French Course." On Roller. iSs. net.
EDUCATIONAL NEWS.—^IV^ first of thèse small books is an illustrated Reader, a grammar and an exercise book, giving oral lessons of an interesdng nature, sufficient grammar to give some formalily to the work, and a copious sélection of drill exercises. We do not know any first year's course more thorough and teachable than this 011e.
"The second little book gives some admirable lessons based on phonetics, covering the ground of the first ten lessons in the former work. Considering the acknowledged value of the phonetic method of studying a foreign language, this should be a valuable aid to the teacher, who should make up his mind to master the spécial alphabet-that of the -Association Phonétique Internationale — used throughout the lessons."
ACADEMY. — " We bave advocated in thèse columns for several years the use in teaching French of the phonetic script, preferably that of the Association Phonétique Internationale, because it is an invaluable aid to correct pronunciation. Also, since it is better that a child should learn one thing at a tirae, the words in bis first Reader in any language should be spelt phonetically and the ordinary spelling should be carefuUy kept out of sight. If English people were to read through a newspaper in phonetic symbols, they would learn with surprise how many words they habitually mispronounce. Again, when a Reader is illustrated the pictures should be pictures and not symbols, nor should they do violence to a child's expérience by crowding together a quite impossible séries of forms merely for their symbolic value. And finally, the language learnt must be learnt in the language itself. This does not mean, of course, that English should never be spoken, it only means toat each puptl should hâve as niuch conversational practice as possible each lesson. The above primer satisfies ail thèse conditionSj and we hope that those teachers who still stand aloof from the reform method will give it a trial."
A SHORT FRENCH GRAMMAR. Crown Svo. 3s.
By OTTO SIEPMANN and EUGÈNE PELLISSIER, M.A.
PUBLIC SCHOOL FRENCH PRIMER. Cr. Svo. 4s.
SIMPLE DRAMATIC SCENES IN EASY FRENCH. Based on Siepmann's " Primary French Course," Part I. By Mrs. A. G. Latham. With an Introduction by Prof. A. G. Latham, M.A. Crown Svo. is. 3d.
MACMILLAN AND GO., Ltd., LONDON.
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