Class-book of French composition, ed. by P.Blouet. Key

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Léon Paul Blouët
1881
 

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Page 50 - French. In these two particulars it is the best guide we have met with, and we recommend it to learners as a book they will find pleasure as well as profit in mastering.
Page 48 - I have much pleasure in being able to compliment you on the publication of such an excellent work. The historical portion of the work is clearly brought out, and contains much valuable information. To...
Page 45 - Every lesson is followed by a short dialogue for conversational practices The volume comprises the whole Accidence. The rules are stated in the clearest possible manner. A chapter on the Philology of the language, and some for reading and translation, a complete index, and two complete Vocabularies, follow the grammatical portion. Its moderate price and its completeness will make it one of the best books for use in our Middle-Class and National Schools and other laige establishments. THE SECOND FRENCH...
Page 47 - 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.
Page 50 - Comparées, and will be found extremely useful for students who wish to become acquainted with colloquial French. The words are arranged in alphabetical order, and the principal idiomatic phrases in which they occur are given, together with an English version. Excellent notes illustrate the origin of the various locutions, and a selection of one thousand sentences serves the purpose of examination tests.
Page 52 - Quj5TiN ; with Dialogues on Railway and Steamboat Travelling, and a Comparative Table of Monies and Measures. New edition, carefully revised by the Rev. PH ERNEST BRETTE, BD, Head Master of the French School, Christ's Hospital, London ; and GUSTAVE MASSON, BA, Assistant Master of Harrow School, Examiners in the University of London.
Page 46 - Theory and practice facing each other. 2dly. The comprehensive nature of the practical pages, each containing a vocabulary of idiomatic, familiar, and colloquial expressions ; quotations from French classics, illustrating the rales opposite ; and, lastly, familiar English to be turned into French.
Page 45 - Wanostrocht, &c. ; even Noël and Chapsal had to relinquish their claims, and a general demand sprang up for new educational works, in connection with the teaching, more particularly, of French. It is for the purpose of meeting this desideratum that Messrs. HACHETTE have issued the series of works, the list of which is appended, and which, taking the pupils from the nursery, lead them gradually on till they are qualified to compete for Scholarships and Exhibitions at the Universities. SECTION I....
Page 45 - PRACTICAL AND THEORETICAL FRENCH CLASS BOOKS. BY PAUL BAUME. These particularly modern Works, which have been unanimously praised by the Press, and well received by the educational world, are especially adapted to preparing for Public Examinations. " Ni trop ni trop peu " has been the Author's motto, and the marked favour with which his...
Page 47 - 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,

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