BOOKS ON FRENCH PROSE COMPOSITION

By VICTOR E. FRANÇOIS, Associate Professer of French, Collège of the City of New York

THE INTRODUCTORY FRENCH PROSE COMPOSITION is designed for students with some knowledge of French grammar — that is, in the second year in the high school, or the second term in collège, although it may be used satisfectorily earlier in the course. Part I présents a systematic review of the cléments of French grammar by means of an original narrative, and Part II contains an adapted story. The progressive exercises in grammar, transposition, and translation, the gênerai review, and the vocabulary are ail arranged for interesting and effective work.

^ The ADVANCED FRENCH PROSE COMPOSI- TION is intended for the third and fourth years in high schools, or for the second year in collèges, and may be used with any complète grammar. Each exercise in Part I includes the rules of grammar to be reviewed, a. list of verbs with the required préposition, a portion of French text, work in transposition, questions to be asked the student, and an English passage for translation into French. For Part II the author has chosen an interesting subject, *'A Stranger Visiting Paris," and has based upon it numerous French and English passages for translation, in this way imparting much valuable information about that city.

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