By STEPHEN PEARL ANDREWS AND GEORGE BATCHELOR.
1 Vol. 12 mo. 469 pages. Price $1 25.
II. Practical Pronouncer and Key
TO ANDREWS AND BATCHELOR'S NEW FRENCH INSTRUCTOR:
Containing the Lessons of the Instructor, with a Phonetic Rendering in Parallel Columns; a French Translation of the Exercises, together with an Appendix.
1 Vol. 12 mo. 347 pages. Price $1.
It is claimed that the labor of teaching and learning the French language is immensely reduced by this new method, and the success of the pupil placed upon a footing of certainty never heretofore attained. The general characteristics of the system for which this claim is made are as follows: 1. The judicious combination of Theory and Practice, Rule and Exercise, in their just proportion to each other. 2. A new Analysis of the Elements of Language. 3. The presentation of a Panoramic View of the French Language as a whole. 4 Teaching one thing at a time, and proceeding by Inductive Steps. 5. The thorough examination of Complex Sentences, and the peculiar force and relations of Connecting Words. 6. The furnishing of so complete a Key to the Pronunciation, that the American can teach it with the same accuracy and facility as the native Parisian.
The Lessons are full; the Rules, clear; the Exercises, short and simple. They embody a complete course of Comparative Grammar, while their peculiar arrangement leaves the teacher free as to the use to be made of the theoretical portions. The treatment of the Conjugations, of the Gender of Nouns, the formation of the Plural of Nouns and Adjectives, of the Feminine of Adjectives, and of Adverbs, will be found novel and ingenious. The Introduction, the Treatise on Pronunciation, the Remarks on the Moods and Tenses, and the Philological Notes freely interspersed, contain a mass of information on the French Language which would be sought for elsewhere in vain.
The student who is without a teacher will find himself completely guided, by this new method, through the intricacies of French Grammar and Pronunciation.