GENERAL KEY TO THE COMPLETE FRENCH CLASS-BOOK. The GENERAL KEY to the Complete French Class-Book can be had by Teachers only, on application to A. S. BARNES & Co. Publishers of the National School Series, 111 & 113 William St. N. Y. THE COMPLETE FRENCH CLASS-BOOK, EMBRACING GRAMMAR, CONVERSATION, LITERATURE, WITH COMMERCIAL CORRESPONDENCE AND An adequate Dictionary. BY LOUIS PUJOL, A.M., OF THE UNIVERSITY OF FRANCE, FELLOW OF THE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCOTLAND, ETC., AND REV. D. C. VAN NORMAN, LL. D., PRINCIPAL OF VAN NORMAN INSTITUTE FOR YOUNG LADIES, NEW Yora. A. S. BARNES AND COMPANY, 1873. MAURICE-POITEVIN'S GRAMMAIRE FRANCAISE: Cours Théorique et Pratique, adopté en France, par le Conseil de l'Instruction Publique. Par M. POITEVIN. (In the Vernacular.) Adapted to American students by Prof. M. B. MAURICE, of the U. S. Naval Academy. WORMAN'S FRENCH ECHO and WORMAN'S GERMAN ECHO; or, Dialogues to teach Conversation, on a plan which leads the learner to think in the language he speaks, instead of translating his thoughts-a common fault of students. By JAMES H. WORMAN, A. M., of Drew Theological Seminary. WORMAN'S GERMAN GRAMMAR. With Exercises, Readings, Conversations, Paradigms, and an adequate Vocabulary. This is the most systematic, ingenious, and scholarly presentation of the language found in any of our modern text-books. WORMAN'S GERMAN READER. New selections from Goethe, Schiller, Körner, Seume, Uhland, Freiligrath, Heine, Schlegel, Hölty, Lenau, Wieland, Herder, Lessing, Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Winkelmann, Humboldt, Ranke, Raumer, Menzel, Gervinus, &c., and contains complete, Goethe's "Iphigenie," Schiller's "Jungfrau "; also, for instruction in modern conversational German, Benedix's Eigensinn." WORMAN'S GERMAN COPY-BOOKS. For instruction and practice in penmanship. The Publishers' Descriptive Catalogue, with fuller details, prices, etc., will be mailed to any applicant enclosing a stamp. A. S. BARNES & COMPANY, NEW YORK. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the A KNOWLEDGE of the FRENCH LANGUAGE has ceased to be merely an accomplishment: it has become a necessity. Whatever, therefore, is adapted to facilitate its acquisition, must be regarded as a benefaction. Notwithstanding the multiplicity of French Text-books, it is confessedly a fact, that, till the present, no work has been published which presents, in one volume, a Complete System of Theoretical and Practical Instruction. In offering to the public "THE COMPLETE FRENCH CLASS-BOOK," it has been the aim of the authors to supply a want long felt in their own experience as teachers, and often expressed by others. Their System embraces complete Theory, with full illustrations and ample Practice; that is, Grammar, Conversation, and Literature. It is divided into Four Parts: PART I.-Includes an elaborate Treatise on Pronunciation; a Theoretical and Practical Grammar, on a plan entirely new, with Exercises in both French and English, and a series of Vocabularies, forming an adequate Dictionary. Attention is directed to the Oral Exercises on the verbs, which form an easy practical introduction to Conversation; also to the Classification, which methodi cally presents, on opposite pages, Theory and Practical Illustrations, with corresponding numbers; so that, at a glance, and without turning a leaf, learners can refer to the rules connected with the exercises they have to translate. PART II.-Presents a complete and orderly development of French Syntax, with exercises in both French and English, and Polite Conversations illustrative of the idiomatical rules. It includes also a general Course of Versions, which embraces an instructive series of biographies and a very useful abstract of the history of France. PART III.-Contains a new system for teaching French Conversation. The exercises embrace a great variety of topics, and are illustrative of more than four thousand words and phrases in common use. PART IV.—Includes-1. Progressive Lessons in Translating, as an introduction to French Literature; 2. Selections, in prose and verse, from the French Classics and the best modern writers. These selections are arranged according to the centennia. periods of their production; and each series is headed with a biographical sketch of its author. An Appendix of Polite and Commercial Correspondence, and translations of all the more difficult words and phrases, with figures of reference, conclude the work. This book, therefore, as its title indicates, contains all that is necessary for the acquisition of a complete theoretical knowledge, and a pure and easy colloquial use of the French language. Confidently believing that the System herein presented, embracing as it does many original features-the deductions of long and varied experience in teachingwill commend itself to the approval of Teachers and Learners, the authors submit the book. NEW YORK, August 20, 1860. LOUIS PUJOL, |