German Grammars, Exercise Books, etc. (continued.) Commarmond and Meister, German Lessons on the Direct Method. For Beginners and Elementary Classes. A Practical Com bination of the Direct and Inductive Methods, based on Familiar Subjects (Home and School, Family, the Seasons, Parts of the Body, the Five Senses, Toilet, Food, Clothes, etc.). By F. COMMARMOND, Professeur agrégé at the Lycée Condorcet, and L. MEISTER, Projesseur agrégé at the Lycée Voltaire. 208 pages, with 147 Illustrations. Demy 8vo. Cloth, 2s. 6d. The Teaching is Direct in the sense that it avoids, as far as possible, the use of the mother-tongue. The foreign words, dialogues, and each reading piece are, at first, associated with an object, picture, or action, and then developed by means of questions and exercises on the terms and phrases already learnt. The Teaching is Inductive in the sense that, starting with concrete examples, it leads inferentially to the clear understanding and mastery of abstract rules and expressions. Grammar is not neglected, but is closely allied with the acquisition of the vocabulary. Simple inductions, questions, exercises, and phonetic models take the pupil, by easy logical stages, through all the essentials of German accidence and pronunciation. The earlier Lessons (I. to VI.) are given in ordinary Roman type, the remaining ninety-four being printed in German characters. At regular intervals (from the twentieth lesson onwards) short easy poems and songs are introduced. Continuity of method exists throughout, each grammatical point occurring in its natural place, and revision lessons are duly provided at the end of the volume. Davis, Army and German Examination Papers. Set at Public Examinations, including Descriptive Narratives, Short Anecdotes, Battles, etc., with Vocabulary. Compiled by J. F. DAVIS, D. 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German Grammars, Exercise Books, etc. (continued). German Lessons on the Gouin Method. Features:-The teaching is oral-based on the phrase and not on the words. The phrases are connected by a natural sequence-the first phrase calling up the second, this one the third, and so on. When the conversational matter of each Lesson is mastered, the grammar is deduced therefrom, the rules being given at the foot of each page. (For fuller particulars see pages 160, 161.) Cloth net 2 O First Book for Children (Erstes Buch für Kinder). s. d. 128 pages. net 4 6 Vol. II. Adults' Course. By F. THÉMOIN, B. ès L., and MAX BLUTH, Ph. D. 164 pages. Demy 8vo. Cloth net 4 6 Haltenhoff's Modern German Course. 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The rules accompanying the translation pieces are arranged with a view of bringing as many as s possible, regularly, before the pupil's notice, so that his everyday exercises should fit him for translating the extracts given in examination papers. [Continued on next page. German Grammars, Exercise Books, etc. (continued). Illustrated German Primer. First Steps in German. The essential elementary nature of this volume has led to the exclusion Lange, F., Graduated Modern Language Course for teaching (4) Juniors' German, comprising a Methodical Part, a Systematic 1 6 3 6 "Conversation is practised from the very beginning, and is based on the reading passage of each lesson. 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It is suggested that the "Hints for Transla. tion" should be learned by heart, whilst a careful and diligent study of the Vocabulary will provide the young pupils with a most useful stock of words and phrases. Key to German Prose Composition for Beginners. (For Teachers and Self-Taught Students only.) net 3 6 [Continued overleaf. |