TOURRIER'S FRENCH GRAMMAR; ALSO CALLED FRENCH IN TEN MONTHS. (This Grammar is published in Five Parts, at One Shilling each.) [The right of Translation is reserved.] "We do not know of better books."-ATHENÆUM. "These books differ considerably from the common order of Class "THINGS APPEAR EASIER TO THE PUPIL IN PROPORTION TO THE " Vide Lecture delivered at Cavendish College, March 23rd, 1853. FRENCH SCHOOL BOOKS, WITH THE ELISIONS MARKED, AND THE MODIFICATION OF VOWELS. FOURTEEN YEARS FRENCH MASTER AT WESTMINSTER SCHOOL; 1.-*FRENCH AS IT IS SPOKEN IN PARIS.-Forty-four Lessons on the Elisions, the Modification of Vowels, Accents, Quantity, Emphasis, Liquid Letters, &c. The Twenty-sixth Thousand, 1s. sewed; 1s. 6d. bound. A book for beginners or advanced pupils." 2.-EASY FRENCH LESSONS, A FRENCH PRIMER, with Verbs, 1s. 3. THE LITTLE MODEL-BOOK. Bound with the above, making altogether EIGHTY very progressive French Lessons, with a Treatise on FRENCH AS IT IS SPOKEN. 18. 6d. sewed; 2s. bound. 4. THE JUVENILE OR FIRST FRENCH GRAMMAR. A book for beginners. 214 Numbered Rules, 153 Exercises, and many Examples, &c. 300 pp., 28. 6d. bound. 5.-KEY, with Notes and Observations, 2s. 6d. FRENCH BOOKS FOR ADVANCED PUPILS. 6. THE MODEL-BOOK. Being a complete course in ONE HUNDRED French Lessons, PROSE AND POETRY. 400 8vo pages, 7s. 6d. bound; also published in Six Parts, 1s. each. 7.--TOURRIER'S SELF-TEACHING FRENCH GRAMMAR; or, French IN TEN MONTHS. With 337 Numbered Rules, 224 Exercises, Referring Numbers, numerous Examples, Notes, &c. Ninth Edition. 430 8vo pages, 48. bound; also published in Five Parts, 1s. each. 8.-KEY TO THE ABOVE. With numerous Notes and Observations, 3s. 9.-GUIDE TO PARIS AND ITS ENVIRONS; or, Familiar Dialogues IN FRENCH AND ENGLISH. With a Map. Eighth Thousand, 2s. 6d. ; 38. bound. 10.-ART OF SELF-TEACHING; or, Jacotot's Method Explained. A New Plan of Education, "Intellectual Emancipation." 18. 11. THE EIGHTY FRENCH CONSONANTS. 18. 12.-A LECTURE. NOW. 6d. FRENCH AS IT WAS IN 1353- FRENCH AS IT IS 13. COURS DE LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE, Ancienne et Moderne -CHOIX DES CHOIX-POÈTES ET PROSATEURS FRANÇAIS. From the time of Charlemagne, with very useful Notes. In One Volume, 460 pp. 8vo, 58. 6d., elegantly bound. 14. THE DEMOGRAPHY-HISTORY AT A GLANCE, in two Tableaux. EUROPEAN HISTORY FROM THE YEAR 360 A.D. 58. 6d. UNIVERSAL HISTORY. 58. 6d. TO BE HAD OF ALL BOOKSELLERS IN TOWN AND COUNTRY. FOURTEEN YEARS FRENCH MASTER AT WESTMINSTER SCHOOL, READER TO HER LATE R. H. THE PRINCESS SOPHIA, AUTHOR OF FRENCH AS IT IS SPOKEN; THE MODEL BOOK; FAMILIAR DIALOGUES, OR THE TENTH EDITION; STEREOTYPED. LONDON: SIMPKIN & CO.; D. NUTT; AND ALL BOOKSELLERS. "We know of no better work for self-tuition than Mr. Tourrier's books."-The ATHENEUM alludes to the "Model-Book" and this "Grammar." "A Volume evincing considerable labour, and more adapted for English learners than most others of its class.”—ATHENÆUM. As I have, in conformity with the rules laid down by the most ninent French Grammarians, departed from the defeetive classification of the Parts of Speech still adhered to by routiniers, it is incumbent on me to mention that three recent English Grammarians, Msssrs. Grant, Kerchever Arnold, and Manneville, have adopted a classification and nomenclature, which, allowing for essential differences between the English and French idioms, coincide nearly with OFAYLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY INSTITUTIO 1 8 JUN. 1931 LIBRARY OF OXFORD ΝΟΙ PREFACE. "Je ne demande à mes lecteurs que de lire le tout et de suite avant que de juger; du reste, qu'ils usent de tous leurs droits." THE novel and important feature of this edition is, that the Rules and essential Observations (altogether 337) are numbered, and very often referred to by corresponding numbers in the Exercises. By this simple mode of reference, which is a constant aid to the learner in his progress, the Rules become easily and indelibly impressed upon his memory. A con siderable amount of time and labour is thus saved both to the teacher and to the pupil. If this work were merely an addition to the various compilations and revivals, called "new grammars," which issue from time to time from the press, a very few words would have sufficed the author to minister to the custom of "writing a preface, and soliciting the countenance of his friends and the public." But, having refuted many long standing prejudices and errors which habit has rendered familiar to all, the writer deems it incumbent upon him to prepare his reader for the reception of those truths, which, simple though they be, might startle him by too sudden an introduction. Although this grammar is in many respects similar to those which have preceded it, as indeed every work of a like nature must needs be, it presents the following, among numerous other, new and important features. |