"AN AUTHOR OF "A COLLEGIATE FRENCH COURSE," "AN ELEMENTARY FRENCH A NEW EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED, WITH PARADIGMS OF REGULAR AND IRREGULAR VERBS, INDEX, AND VOCABULARY. NEW YORK: MAYNARD, MERRILL, & Co., 43, 45 AND 47 EAST TENTH STREET, 1894, 605636 PROF. KEETELS FRENCH SERIES. 1. A Child's Illustrated First Book in French. 144 pages, 12mo, handsomely bound in cloth. Newly revised. The aim of this book is to make the study of the French language attractive and interesting to children who have no knowledge of the English grammar. The object-lesson plan has been adopted. For this purpose, the volume is handsomely illustrated by engravings especially prepared for the book. 2. An Elementary French Grammar. 264 pages, 12mo. This work is designed for students of the grammar department. Its purpose is to train them in the principles of French grammar, and to accustom them by oral instruction to the use of the French language. 3. An Analytical and Practical French Grammar. 524 pages, 12mo. This book, containing the advantage of the oral and the analytical method of instruction, comprises all that is necessary to teach the French language successfully, both theoretically and practically. It is a complete grammar, in which the principles of the language are developed in a logical and efficient manner. 4. A Key to the English Exercises in the Analytical and Practical French Grammar. 12mo, cloth, 75 cents. 5. A Collegiate Course in the French Language, comprising a complete Grammar, in two parts. Arranged and prepared for the Study of French in Colleges and Collegiate Institutions. PART FIRST: A Treatise on French Pronunciation; Rules on Gender; Etymology; Exercises for Translation; the Latin Elements common to both the French and the English. PART SECOND: Syntax; a Collection of Idioms; Exercises for Translation, and Vocabulary. 6. A Key to the English Exercises in Part Second of A COLLEGIATE COURSE IN THE FRENCH LANGUAGE. (For Teachers only.) 7. An Analytical French Reader; with English Exercises for Translation and Oral Exercises for Practice in Speaking; Questions on Grammar, with References to the Author's several Grammars; Notes and Vocabulary. In Two Parts. PART FIRST: Selections of Fables, Anecdotes, and Short Stories. PART SECOND: Selections from the best Modern Writers. 320 pages, 12mo. COPYRIGHT, 1879, BY CLARK & MAYNARD. PREFACE. THIS HIS Grammar contains, in a series of fifty-four lessons, a complete analysis of the principles and construction of the French Language. The plan of the work is original with the author; the system of instruction combines theory and practice. The theoretical part of each lesson is divided into sections, which treat of the several subjects separately, bringing each subject conspicuously before the mind. The practical part consists of progressive Oral Exercises in French, embodying the rules and principles that are explained in the theoretical part. An English Exercise follows, which is to be translated into French, in writing. The Oral Exercise is intended to make the student familiar with the living language. The Written Exercise is to teach him the application of the rules of grammar. The different meanings of homonyms and synonyms, as well as some critical points of grammar, which possess little interest for one entering upon the study of the language, are explained in foot-notes. Certain peculiarities of construction, which would have unprofitably retarded the student's progress at an earlier iii |