Hachette's New Series of Popular French Authors. Printed in clear type, and edited for Elementary and Intermediate Classes, with Vocabularies, including Notes and Renderings of Idiomatic Expressions and Phrases. General Editor: A. BARRÈRE, Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur; Officier de l'Instruction Publique; Professor of French Language and Literature, Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, etc., etc. Price per Volume, Small 8vo, bound in cloth limp, 4d. First Series (for Junior Forms). Beissier, Les Mémoires d'un Moineau. With Introduction, Notes, and Vocabulary by H. LALLEMAND, B. ès L., B. ès Sc., Officier d'Académie, late Professor of French Language and Literature at University College and Queen's College, London. Ségur, Mme. la Ctsse. de, Histoire de la Princesse Rosette (from the Author's well-known Nouveaux Contes de Fées). With Notes and Vocabulary by J. MAURice Rey, B. ès L., late French Lecturer at Reading College. Witt, Mme. de, Histoire d'un Chien. Edited with a full French-English Vocabulary by F. MINOGGIO. Second Series (for Middle Forms). About, Le Grain de Plomb. (In preparation.) Balzac, Le Colonel Chabert. With Vocabulary and Re-translation Sentences, by FRANCIS J. PAYNE, First Class Instructor ir. French to the L.C.C. Gorsse, H. de, et Jacquin, J., La Jeunesse de Cyrano de Bergerac; La Bataille de Beaugency; et le Cabaret des Poètes. With a Vocabulary, and English Sentences based on the Text for re-translation, etc., by the GENERAL EDITOR. Gozlan, Polydore Marasquin, Prisonnier des Singes. With Vocabulary and Re-translation Sentences, by the GENERAL EDITOR. Hugo, La Esmeralda and Gringoire. With Vocabulary and Re-translation Sentences, by the GENERAL EDITOR. Hugo, Waterloo. With Vocabulary, Re-translation Sentences, etc., by the GENERAL EDITOR. Le Sage, Gil Blas chez es Brigands. With Vocabulary, and English Sentences based on the Text for re-translation, etc., by the GENERAL EDITOR. Mérimée, Mateo Falcone; L'Enlèvement de la Redoute. (In preparation.) Michelet, Selections from 'L'Oiseau': (Les Rapaces, La Nuit, Migrations, Le Chant). With Vocabulary, Re-translation Sentences, etc., by A. TALLON, B. ès L., French Instructor at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. Mouton, Voyages et Aventures du Capitaine Marius Cougourdan: Le Supplice du Ballon. With Vocabulary, Re-translation Sentences, etc., by the GENERAL EDITOR. The Text in the First Series consists mainly of short stories by favourite authors judiciously selected for the use of young pupils and junior forms. The matter is interesting and not too difficult, whilst the numerous colloquialisms comprised therein furnish abundant material to exercise the pupils in practical conversation and elementary translation. The full vocabularies appended include simple renderings of useful and idiomatic expressions. In the Second Series will be found a choice collection of masterpieces by some of the best modern French writers. The brevity, interest, and variety of the tales will commend them as ideal text-books admirably suited for securing a wide range of current vocabulary and colloquial phraseology. The re-translation sentences at the end (Second Series only), if studied in conjunction with the text, will, it is believed, supply a ready means of mastering many of the subtleties of the language, and of acquiring some taste for those literary nuances and délicatesses of diction which it generally requires a long stay in France to appreciate thoroughly. French Lessons on the Direct Method-Beginners' Course. Containing 300 Nouns in Common Use, 160 Verbal Forms, 100 of the most usual Adjectives, Adverbs, etc., and over 300 Practical Exercises for Oral and Written Work. By MARC CEPPI, Senior French Master at King's College School. 122 pages. Crown 8vo. Cloth. With small reproductions of Hölzel's Con versational Wall Pictures of the Four Seasons for Class Use and Home Preparation. 1s. 6d. This work, by a practical teacher of many years' experience, is the result of an exhaustive study of various applications of the Direct Method in the teaching of French-discarding what is impracticable in similar Courses, and utilising only the best and most essential materials for securing a sound rudimentary knowledge of written as well as of spoken French. The vocabulary and phrases used are based upon Hölzel's well-known Pictures of the Four Seasons. Every word introduced is worth learning and remembering. The grammatical constructions are of the simplest kind, and can be spontaneously reproduced by the pupil. Numerous exercises are set on these constructions in addition to the ordinary conversational questions on the Pictures. The French Verbs are taught in the form of an attractive drill. 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Containing 360 Nouns, 88 Verbal Forms, 124 Adjectives, Adverbs, etc., forming, with the Résumé of the Vocabulary used in the 'Beginners' Course,' a total of 1100 essential Words. By MARC CEPPI, Senior French Master at King's College School. 136 pages. Crown 8vo. Cloth, 1s. 6d. This work may be used either as a continuation of the author's 'Beginners' Course,' or as a much-needed sequel to any of the numerous text-books based on Hölzel's Pictures of the Four Seasons. For the convenience, however, of teachers and pupils who are unacquainted with the more elementary course, a résumé of the Beginners' Vocabulary is included in this volume, thus making the 'Junior Course' practically an independent class-book. The reading matter is easy and can be readily reproduced by the dullest pupils; no difficult constructions occur, and in the vocabulary only words of frequent use are given. 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Revision occurs frequently, and constant recapitulation of past lessons forms another feature of the work. M French Readers in Prose and Verse (New Volumes). Premières Lectures en Prose et en Vers, short, interesting Narra- s. d. tives in easy French, with Conversational Questions based on the Text, and Vocabulary, by J. LAZARE, B. Ès L. 130 pages. Cr. 8vo. Cl. 'We have here one hundred and three pages of easy, well-printed, interesting extracts suitable for elementary and intermediate classes. A few questions in French are added at the foot of each passage, and there is a vocabulary. We have culled at random the following names from the list of writers: A. Karr, Gaston Paris, Diderot, Lesage, Stendhal, Richepin, Voltaire, Florian, Victor Hugo, and Théophile Gautier. It will thus be seen that this little volume furnishes reading matter gathered from both eighteenth and nineteenth century authors, including some who are yet living. This is probably the best kind of reader, for both the classics and the nineteenth century writers have their advantages. We recommend this book for pupil-teachers and scholarship candidates.'-Practical Teacher. Petits Chefs-d'Œuvre contemporains. Six short and attractive Tales in Prose, by E. ARÈNE, J. CLARETIE, F. COPPÉE, G. DE MAUPASSANT, J. RICHEPIN, and A. THEURIET. Edited, with Notes, Vocabulary, etc., by JULES LAZARE, B. ÈS L. 116 pages. Crown 8vo. Cloth. 'These six short, lively, simple masterpieces of story-telling, by some of the most popular contemporary French writers, have the charm, lightness of touch, vividness of phrase, and colloquial fascination which characterise the works of Jules Claretie, Emmanuel Arène, Guy de Maupassant, André Theuriet, Jean Richepin, and François Coppée. Their selection for scholastic purposes by the thoroughly capable Bachelier ès Lettres-Jules Lazare, and their appearance in an authorised edition, enhance their claim to the consideration of Teachers of French. Their brevity, variety, and modernity, commend them as choice and typical text books, good for securing a wide range of current vocabulary, phrases, and sentences, composed according to present-day grammatical form, and every-day colloquial free. dom.'-Educational News. Half-Hours with Modern French Authors, including typical Extracts from Popular Writers of the Day, Standard Pieces of high literary merit, with French-English Vocabularies by JULES LAZARE, B. ÈS L. First Part (New and Enlarged Edition), for Intermediate and Advanced Classes. 200 pages. Crown 8vo. Cloth. Second Part, for Advanced Classes. 200 pages. Crown 8vo. Cloth Each extract is complete in itself, and of sufficient interest to rivet the attention of the reader. 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Price 18. Vol. II. SYNTAX. Cloth. Price 1s. KEY TO THE ACCIDENCE. Price 2s. KEY TO THE SYNTAX. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. Price 2s. "A good school-book. The type is as clear as the arrangement."—Athenæum, Jan. 6, 1877. "We are not astonished to hear that it has met with the most flattering reception." -School Board Chronicle, March 10, 1877. "We have no hesitation in stating our opinion that no more useful or practical introduction to the French langauge has been published than this."—Public Opinion, March 24, 1877. "England is fortunate in the services of a small knob of French Masters like MM. Masson and Brette, who have, alike by their teaching and their school-books, done much for the scientific study of the language and literature of France. After successfully introducing into English form the Public School French Grammar, in which M. Littré's researches are happily applied by M. Brachet so as to show the relation of modern French to Latin, MM. Brette and Masson here translate and adapt the Petite or Elementary French Grammar. That has at once proved as popular as the more elaborate treatise."-Edinburgh Daily Review, March 20, 1877. "Of this excellent school series we have before us the Public School Elementary French Grammar-(1) Accidence and (2) Syntax. Brachet's work is simply beyond comparison with any other of its class; and its scientific character is not sacrificed in the very judicious adaptation which has made it available for English students.There is no better elementary French Grammar, whether for boys or for girls."-Hereford Times, April 11, 1887. THE PUBLIC SCHOOL FRENCH GRAMMAR Giving the latest Results of Modern Philology, and based upon the "Nouvelle Grammaire Française" of AUGUSTE BRACHET, Lauréat de l'Académie française et de l'Académie des Inscriptions. Part I., Accidence. New Edition, revised, enlarged and adapted Part II., Syntax. New Edition, revised, enlarged and adapted PRESS OPINIONS. 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It is indeed impossible to give in detail the numerous merits of this text-book, which deserves and receives our heartiest commendation."-The Educational News, May 6, 1905. |