CAUSERIES FAMILIÈRES; OR, FRIENDLY CHATS. A Simple and Deductive French Course. By Mrs. S. C. Boyd.
Prescribed for use in schools by the Department of Public Instruction, New South Wales. Pupils’ Edition, containing all that need be in the hands of the learner. Crown 8vo, cloth, limp, 1s. 6d. (post free 1s. 8d.). Teachers’ Edition, containing grammatical summaries, exercises, a full treatise on pronunciation, French-English and English-French Vocabulary, and other matter for the use of the teacher or of a student without a master. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 3s. 6d. (post free, 3s. 10d.).
The London Spectator: “A most excellent and practical little volume, evidently the work of a trained teacher. It combines admirably and in an entertaining form the advantages of the conversational with those of the grammatical method of learning a language.”
THE AUSTRALIAN OBJECT LESSON BOOK.
Part I.—For Infant and Junior Classes. With 43 illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 3s. 6d.; paper cover, 2s. 6d. (postage, 4d.).
N.S.W. Educational Gazette: “Mr. Wiley has wisely adopted the plan of utilising the services of specialists. The series is remarkably complete, and includes almost everything with which the little learners ought to be made familiar. Throughout the whole series the lessons have been selected with judgment and with a due appreciation of the capacity of the pupils for whose use they are intended.”
AUSTRALIAN SONGS FOR AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN.
By Mrs. MAYBANKE ANDERSON.
All the songs are set to music, while to some of them appropriate calisthenic exercises are given. Demy 4to, picture cover, 1s.
Sydney Morning Herald: “This is a prettily got up little book, in which the music of old songs or old melodies has been set to verses having reference to this country. The verses are in every case simple and good, suited to children and to the illustration by action for which directions are given in a foot note. ‘Australia Fair,’ to a melody by Gluck, is the tune which the late Carl Formes and Signor Foli made popular as ‘The Mill Wheel.’ ‘The Gum Tree,’ to the tune of ‘Banker’s Wallet,’ is a capital song for little children, and ‘The Bonnie Orange Tree,’ to the tune of ‘Come, Landlord, Fill your Flowing Bowl,’ has really charming verses. ‘The Little Grey Bandicoot,’ again, has first-rate verse. The publication as a whole should prove popular.”
THE AUSTRALIAN LETTERING BOOK.