A PRACTICAL COURSE WITH THE FRENCH LANGUAGE. ON WOODBURY'S PLAN WITH GERMAN. BY LOUIS A. LANGUELLIER, LL.D., LATE TUTOR IN THE COLLEGE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, AND H. M. MONSANTO, A. M., LATE ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN THE UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY "L'usage est le maître de la langue." DUCLOS. İVISON, BLAKEMAN, TAYLOR, & CO., NEW YORK AND CHICAGO. HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY a.s. Walcott Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by LOUIS A. LANGUELLIER AND H. M. MONSANTO, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. PREFACE. IN preparing the present work it has been the aim of the authors, while excluding nothing of practical value which has already been placed before the public, to combine with the best features of the most approved methods the results of their own experience. While endeavoring to render this work a valuable assistant in the class-room, they have sought at the same time to adapt it to the purposes of private instruction, and in so doing have availed themselves to a great extent of the admirable plan presented in Woodbury's Practical Course with the German Language. Accordingly the lessons are arranged in the following order: - 1. THE SUBJECT OF THE LESSON. 2. EXAMPLES, accompanied by their nearest English equivalents, and made to illustrate the grammatical and idiomatic principles which are involved in the Lessons. 3. VOCABULARIES, placed before the Exercises, the masculine and feminine nouns being grouped separately, and other parts of speech arranged alphabetically for convenience of reference. 4. FRENCH EXERCISES. The sentences in French require only the application of the instructions contained in the Lesson, or in the preceding ones, for their translation into English. 5. ENGLISH EXERCISES. The analogous sentences in English are presented in immediate connection with the preceding ones |