French Courses, etc., on the Direct Method (continued). MON PREMIER MON DEUXIÈME MON TROISIÈME MON QUATRIÈME LIVRE DE FRANÇAIS. Par E. ROCHELLE, Cours complet de Langue Française en Méthode Directe. In 4 Volumes, with 250 Special and Original Illustrations. 'Minimum pour les élèves de première année,' ce sous-titre rend très exactement notre pensée. Une expérience de vingt-cinq année d'enseignement nous a appris, en effet, que nos livres classiques contiennent, la plupart du temps, beaucoup trop de choses. 'Les arbres empêchent l'enfant de voir la forêt.' Essayons, au contraire, de ne lui en montrer que les grandes percées. Minimum de vocabulaire, présenté dans un ordre strictement progressif; minimum de notions grammaticales essentielles: le tout égayé par quelques chansons, historiettes, poésies bien françaises; voilà ce que nous offrons au jeune élève qui commence à apprendre le français. Nos collègues qui voudront bien se donner la peine de parcourir la série des plans des quatre volumes de notre Cours de Français, se rendront facilement compte qu'en effet, tous les moments' et tous les 'endroits,' en un mot tous les décors dans lesquels une action quelconque peut se dérouler, ont été prévus, tout en réduisant à leur plus strict minimum les notions de vocabulaire et de grammaire. Ils constateront aussi que chacun de nos textes scolaires est la préparation directe à la compréhension des textes littéraires donnés en exemple à la fin de chaque volume, et que, par conséquent, dès que l'élève aura assimilé tout ce que contiennent ces quatres petits volumes, il sera prêt à comprendre n'importe quel texte pris dans un bon recueil de morceaux choisis. MÉTHODE TOURNOIS. A Practical Course with 317 Illustrations, Map of Paris, Tables of Irregular Verbs, Exercises, Short Extracts in Prose and Verse, etc. By G. TOURNOIS, Officier d'Académie. 2nd Edition. Revised and Enlarged. 212 pages. Cloth. 3s. net. The author's aim has been to make the taste of acquiring a real knowledge of the language less arduous than under the old-fashioned methods, without, however, making the other mistake of COMPLETELY doing away with translation and grammar as frequently prescribed by some of the modern methods. BY THE SAME AUTHOR. French Verbs. By G. TOURNOIS. Paper Cover. 3d. (See page 26.) Commercial French. By G. TOURNOIS. Cloth. 25. (See page 44.) [Continued on next page. VADE MECUM DU PROFESSEUR DE FRANÇAIS. Encyclopédie portative de Connaissances et d'Exercices utiles à ceux qui enseignent la Langue et sa Littérature. PAR G. N. TRICOCHE, L. en Droit, Author of 'Some Stumbling Blocks of the French Language' (see below) ; 'Recueil Gradué de Bons Mots et Anecdotes courtes' (see page 60), etc. etc. 356 pages. Crown Sve. Cloth, 5s. net. The book, written in French with occasional explanations in English, presents in a condensed form, the contents of six or seven works on as many different subjects, besides a great deal of matter which cannot be found in other French Text Books. It is as necessary to the Teacher as it is useful to the advanced Student, forming, as it does, a Pocket Encyclopædia of French Pronunciation, Grammatical Rules, Exercises for Advanced Pupils, Technical Vocabularies, Commercial Correspondence, Epistolary Rules and Models, History, Geography, Art, Practical Conversation, Idioms, Irregular Verbs, Examination Papers, General Information, etc. of its most appreciated features is the Chapter on French Literature (160 pages), ancient and modern, with bibliographical and biographical list of authors. One SOME STUMBLING BLOCKS OF THE FRENCH LANGUAGE AND THE WAY TO AVOID THEM. A new departure in the Study of French for the guidance of Intermediate and Advanced Students and Candidates for Examination. BY G. N. TRICOCHE, L. en Droit, Author of Vade Mecum du Professeur de Français' (see above); 'Recueil Gradué de Bons Mots et Anecdotes courtes' (see page 60), etc. etc. FOURTH EDITION (1919) WITH A SUPPLEMENT. 120 pages. Crown 8vo. Cloth, 4s. net. There has been a long felt need for some work that would do for the foreigner, studying French, what has been done for the French and the English scholars respectively in the study of their own language: a book in which the most common mistakes in pronunciation, expressions, verbs, sentence building, quotations, etc., are comprehensively enumerated and carefully corrected. In that respect, Prof. Tricoche's Manual fills a gap in the long series of French educational works. But it goes still further: it contains a very extensive list of familiar expressions or words which, although constantly used in conversation and current literature, are too near related to slang to be found in ordinary dictionaries. 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BERNON, Late Professor of French, Kensington Definitions and simple Explanations are given in English with easy French Translations in opposite columns, Elements of French Grammar with Model Examples and Phrases in English and French; the auxiliary verbs avoir" and "être" fully conjugated, Rules, etc., for the Formation of the Tenses, Models of the Four Conjugations, etc., etc. The brevity and arrangement of the text-matter permit of its being easily mastered in a comparatively short time, thus giving encouragement and confidence-indispensable elements in the early stages of acquiring a foreign tongue. o 8 "Ce n'est pas une grammaire que nous avons la prétention de soumetre aujourd'hui aux Professeurs et Instituteurs, mais un échelon que nous leur demandons à ajouter au bas de l'échelle grammaticale dans le but de faciliter l'ascension de jeunes commençants."-From Author's Preface. [Continued overleaf. French Grammars, Primers, etc. (continued). The Public School Elementary French Grammar. With Exercises, Examination Questions, and Vocabularies. By AUGUSTE BRACHET, Lauréat de l'Académie Française. and Adapted for English Schools by the late Rev. P. H. E. BRETTE, B.D., & GUSTAVE MASSON, B.A., New Edition revised by EL P H E G E JANAU, Formerly Assistant French Master, Christ's Hospital, London; With Notes explaining the "tolérances" and "simplifications" authorised by the French Minister of Public Instruction. In one volume. 374 pages. Crown 8vo. Cloth With Exercises, Questions and s. d. 4 6 2 6 2 6 net 2 6 Part I.-Accidence (separately). A SUPPLEMENTARY SERIES OF EXERCISES TO "THE PUBLIC SCHOOL ELEMENTARY FRENCH GRAMMAR." Vol. I.-Accidence. With a Supplement to Grammar and a Vocabulary to the Exercises. 76 pages. Crown 8vo. Vol. II. Syntax. 80 pages. Crown 8vo. s. d. I "A good school-book. The type is as clear as the arrangement."Athenæum. "We have no hesitation in stating our opinion that no more useful or practical introduction to the French language has been published than this."-Public Opinion. "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 girls."-Hereford Times. England is fortunate in the services of a small knot 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. "M. Auguste Brachet is well known as one of the most scientific and learned of French philologists and grammarians, and the practical utility of his Elementary French Grammar' is proved by the fact that the translation of it by the Rev. P. H. Brette, head master of the French School at Christ's Hospital, and Mr. G. Masson, Assistant Master at Harrow, has already reached a new edition."-The Scotsman, [Continued on next page. |