AN ANALYTICAL FRENCH READER. With English Exercises for Translation and Oral Questions on Grammar, with References to the Author's Several Paradigms of Verbs, Regular and Irregular. NOTES AND VOCABULARY. IN TWO PARTS. Part First-FABLES, ANECDOTES, AND SHORT STORIES. BY JEAN GUSTAVE KEETELS, Author of "A Collegiate French Course," "An Analytical and Practical French NEW YORK: CLARK & MAYNARD, PUBLISHERS, 734 BROADWAY. 1884. 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 hand. somely 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 ora! 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 succesfully, 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 HARVARD LIBRARY PREFACE. THIS volume is more than its title implies. It is de signed to be a companion and guide to the student of French, to help him in his efforts to acquire the language, so as to read, write and speak it. The means necessary to accomplish these ends are all called in to aid; the methods pursued, though not new in practice, are presented in a new form, and developed into a system. In Part First, each page contains a complete lesson: 1. Reading; 2. Analysis with study of notes on grammar; 3. Exercise for Translation; 4. Oral Exercise for practice in speaking. The Reading Exercises-fables, anecdotes and short stories -are taken from various sources. Most of the pieces have been changed to adapt them to the purposes of this work; and, although old acquaintances, their reappearance in a new dress will, it is believed, awaken new interest. The lessons have been arranged in progressive order, so that the student's task, short and easy in the beginning, increases in length and difficulty as the course advances. The grammatical analysis of each piece is given, as far as is deemed judicious, in the answers to the questions which follow the reading-lesson. The English Exercises for translation are framed in imitation of the French text, which furnishes to some extent the materials of which the sentences are composed. difficulties of construction which may embarrass the The student are explained in the Notes, to which attention is directed by the asterisks. The Oral Exercises for practice in speaking consist of a series of questions in French. They are intended to be the basis for French conversation between the teacher and scholar. To learn to read and understand a piece in a foreign tongue, such as French, is not a very difficult task, and will make but a transient impression on the mind, if nothing further is attempted; for the benefit we derive from our exertions is generally in proportion to the difficulties which we overcome. To obtain lasting results, the student should commit the French exercises in Part First to memory, or at least learn them so as to be able to translate the English version of any exercise into the original French. Part Second opens with selections from some of the classic writers of the eighteenth century; their style, pure and elegant, is comparatively easy to foreign students. The course gradually approaches the modern school of literature, and furnishes models of almost every kind of prose composition. Many of the best writers of the present time are represented, to the extent that the scope of the work would permit. The author has availed himself of all the information which he could derive from other works. He acknowledges with gratitude the aid which he has received from Professor Hippolyte Dalmon, of the United States Naval Academy of Annapolis, to whom he is indebted for many suggestions which have enhanced the value of the work. NEW YORK, April 15, 1879. |