Standard Text-Books FOR THE STUDY OF FRENCH, PUBLISHED BY HENRY HOLT & CO., 25 BOND STREET, N. Y. OTTO'S GRAMMAR AND BOCHER'S READER. BOREL'S GRAMMAIRE FRANÇAISE À L'USAGE DES ANGLAIS. GASC'S TRANSLATOR. PYLODET'S BEGINNER'S SERIES. PYLODET'S LITTERATURE FRANÇAISE CLASSIQUE. PYLODET'S LITTERATURE FRANÇAISE CONTEM PORAINE. SADLER'S TRANSLATING ENGLISH into FRENCH. WITCOMB AND BELLINGER'S GUIDE TO FRENCH CONVERSATION. PARLEZ-VOUS FRANÇAISE. The same publishers also issue a large number of minor works in this department, including many complete dramas and novelettes by the most eminent writers in the language, annotated for the use of students. Full descriptive catalogues will be forwarded gratis, on application. * Any one discovering an error in any of Messrs. Henry Holt & Co's publications will confer a great favor by reporting it to the publishers immediately. If the Teacher using the book in which this notice is printed will have the kindness to notify the Publishers of the fact, he will confer a favor on them, and enable them to send directly to him information of new books in his department. À L'USAGE DES ANGLAIS ARRANGÉE D'APRÈS LA 12me ÉDITION DE LA PAR EUGÈNE BOREL, PROFESSEUR DE LANGUE FRANCAISE AU GYMNASE SUPERIEUR ET A L'INSTITUTION ROYALE DE CATHERINE A STUTTGART. REVISED BY EDWARD B. COE, PROFESSOR IN YALE COLLEGE. NEW EDITION, REVISED. NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY BOSTON: SHÖNHOF & MÖLLER Ede 1518.73.23 HARVARD CO!! EGE LIBRARY GEORGE ARTHUR PLIMPTON Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, BY LEYPOLDT & HOLT, District of New York. In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION. It is the experience of many teachers that the study of a living foreign language can best be pursued, after a student has acquired some familiarity with the elements, by means of a grammar written in that language itself. It is for such students that the present work is designed. Presupposing such an acquaintance with the French language as will enable the pupil to read the book itself, it undertakes by two graduated courses, which are so arranged that they may be pursued either together or separately, to introduce him to the finer distinctions and grammatical niceties of the language. In two respects it differs from other French grammars written in French. It is composed expressly for those to whom English is native, and the more important points of difference in the usages of the two languages will be found to be carefully indicated. It contains also a series of exercises, illustrative of the rules, to be trans. lated into French. If some of these sentences bear evidence in their structure of having been translated from French into English, the hint of the French idiom which they suggest will perhaps tend to correct in the student |