NEW FRENCH CLASS BOOKS
By C. A. CHARDENAL, B.A.,
Bachelier W Lettres of the Unloerelty of France.
'MomnuB Ohardxkal's System of teaching French, nnlike that of many modern professors, Is based npon the sound and thorough comprehension of the mles of Ian* gnage. He does not profess to teach French in a fortnight, or, may be, in a week, ont tells his pupils at the outset that the knowledge of French, like any other knowledge worth acquiring, can only be got at by hard and perseyering labour, extended over a considerable space of time. The Author wants his pupils to work not only by day, but by night if possible. The student is advised to " take every morning two or three verbs and as many sentences, and turn them mentally in every possible way during the day, or at ni|pit in bed before sleeping." '—7^ Spa^aior.
*The Freneh Primer. For Junior Classes, containing Pronunciation, Rules and Exercises on Parts of Speech, etc., Exercises on French Conversation, French Reader, with Vocabulary. In three parts, each 4d., or complete in 1 vol., 220 pages, Foap. 8vo. Cloth, Is. 8d.
*First French Course : or Rules and Exercises for Begrinners,
(new and revised Edition entirely re-aei in elear, hold type), containing the Accidence, general Principles of Syntax, Complement of Rules and Exceptions, Reading Extracts with French-English and English-French Vocabularies, etc., 262 pages, Fcap. 8vo. Cloth, Is. 6d.
From the Athenmm^—* The information is well put, and the book as good a First Course as can be had.'
*Second French Course: or French Syntax and Reader.
Including the difficulties of the Subjunctive Mood, Exercises on Irregular Verbs, Extracts from Standard Authors, and Vocabularies. 276 pages, Fcap. 8vo. Cloth, 2s.
The Arst twenty-three pages of this, book are a mere continuation of the Firet French Cewte^ in which tne general principles of Syntax are given along with the Accidence. They treat at some length of all that relates to the sul^unctive, and will, it is hoped, help to remove the difficulties in the use of that mood and its tenses. Exercises on the irrmlar verbs follow f^om rage 84 to page 119. Believing that one or two rules, given along with each verb, will keep up their interest, in a most profitable way, afi the principal rules of syntax have been inserted in this pvrt of the book, with exercises suited both to the verbs and to the rules. The Second Fart it composed of French extracts. These will afford words for sentences, as well as pieces to be learned by heart and sentences to be parsed.
Key to the First and Second Courses. Fcap. Svo. Cloth, 8s. 6d* *French Exercises for Advanced Pupils. Principal' Rules of
French Syntax, Exercises on Rules and Idioms, a Dictionary of nearly 4000 Idiomatical Verbs and Sentences, Familiar Phrases and Proverbs, etc. 320 pases, Fcap. Svo. Clothj 3s. 6d.
From JEduooHomoZ Times.— 'The Table of Idioms, which extends over 160 pages, is the most complete we remember ever to have seen, and, we doubt not, will be of very great service to the pupil. '
Key to the 'French Exercises for Advanced Pupils'; with
Ebcplanations of 850 of the most difficult Idioms. Fcap. 8vo. Cloth, 3s. 6d.
The Rules of the French Langage. A Summary, in Grammatical Order, of the Rules in the Author's FirH and Second French Gouraea, andAdvanced French Exerdaes, 1 86 pages, Fcap. 8vo. Cloth, Is. 6d.
Practical Exercises on French Conversation, for the use of
Students and Travellers. English-French Phrases in constant use, copious Exercises, the leading Elementary Rules of French Grammar, etc. 200 pages, Fcap. 8vo. Cloth, Is. 6d.
* The voltmei Indicated by atterUk$ (*) have been revised in accordance wUh the 9i)mplificatûms in French Syntaa and Orthography tandioned by the French Academy, pttdawthorieed by the French Minieter efPiMie Inetntetion (February 1901).
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