RECOMMENDATIONS TO THIS WORK. From Washington. STUDY OF FRENCH.-We have looked over the manuscript of the elementary work, for which Mrs. B. O'S. Addicks publishes proposals in this morning's paper, and we add, with great sincerity, our opinion of its excellence to the respectable recommendations which accompany the proposals. We have never seen any other work so well calculated to impart an accurate understanding of the French sounds and a ready acquisition of correct pronunciation. In this consists its peculiar and very high merit.-Gales & Seaton, in the National Intelligencer of the 18th Septem ber, 1826. I have perused the elementary book of Mrs. B. O'S. Addicks, and do not hesitate to say that it will be of the greatest utility to children, and that it is particularly well calculated to teach them a correct pronunciation of the French language. I hope the work will meet with the patronage to which its high merits entitle it. WILLIAM FEINER, President. Georgetown College, August 9th, 1828. All systems of teaching which can tend to disseminate the French language, cannot fail of having my sanction: for, however humble it is, I think, thereby, to be yet serving my native country. The work which Mrs. B. O'S. Addicks proposes to publish, is superior to all the elementary books of the kind that have come to my knowledge. I will not, therefore, hesitate to adopt it for my scholars and I hope that the suffrage of the public will encourage a method so well adapted to forward the progress of young stu dents in the French tongue. HENRI GUEGAN, Student de L'ecole centrale de St. Brieux; and Professor of the French Language at Washington. Washington, July 14th, 1828. From Baltimore. I really do believe that the plan of teaching the French language in a practical way, as intended by Mrs. B. O'S. Addicks, and after the method of Seidenstuecker, is the very best that can be devised. It is especially well adapted to lead children on to a quick, easy, and certain progress in that tongue; and at the same time excite in them a disposition to the study of the grammar, of which this method of Seidenstuecker, is particularly calculated to facilitate the correct understanding; for surely that child will learn the grammatical rules of a language best, which already speaks and understands that language. I therefore cannot otherwise than sincerely recommend this book to public patronage, and wish the translator the happiest success in this her useful undertaking. J. UHLHORN, Pastor of the German Lutheran Congregation, and Professor of the Baltimore, 7th December, 1827. A From Virginia. I heartily concur in recommending this elementary work to the patronage of those interested in promoting the instruction of youth in the French language; I think it will be peculiarly beneficial to young learners; and will supply a void in our present means of teaching this language. HENRY RUFFNER, Professor of Ancient and Modern Languages, of History and Lexington, Virginia, June 14th, 1827. An elementary book in the German language, for teaching the French language, having been submitted to my inspection, I am satisfied that, if translated according to the English idiom, it will be made a most useful book in our elementary schools, and the publication thereof should, therefore, have the public support. G. BLATTERMAN. Professor of Modern Languages, of History, and Belles Lettres, at the University of Virginia. July the 1st, 1827. From Nashville. I have seen and examined the elementary work alluded to in the annexed prospectus, and can cheerfully recommend it to the notice of the instructors of youth, as exceedingly well calculated to promote the advancement of young persons who are engaged in the study of the French tongue. P. S. FALL, Preceptor in the Female Academy, Nashville. In the above recommendation, I heartily concur. P. H. LINDSLEY, President of the Cumberland College, From Cincinnati. Highly approving the elementary and practical principles upon which this work is constructed, we most cheerfully put our names to the subscription list. A. & J. W. PICKET. January 12th, 1827. From Philadelphia. I have examined with as much care as my time would admit, Dr. Seidenstuecker's work for teaching the French language, (translated and added to by Mrs. B. O'S. Addicks.) I consider it a work of peculiar merit, admirably adapted to the purpose for which it is intended. Philadelphia, November 17th, 1827. CHARLES PICOT. After having read with attention a Rudiment entitled, "An Elementa ry Practical Book, for learning to speak the French Language," &c. 1 from the first judged it to be excellent to teach the French Language with facility and promptitude, and having since witnessed the examination of two youths in that language, and seen the rapid and even surprising progress, which, after the short space of two months, these two young persons have made, by means of this method, under the tuition of the Author, Mrs. B. O'S. Addicks; I do not fear to advance that this work will be of the greatest benefit to children. PEYRE FERRY. Philadelphia, January, 28th, 1832. AN ELEMENTARY PRACTICAL BOOK FOR LEARNING TO SPEAK THE FRENCH LANGUAGE, EXPRESSLY ADAPTED TO THE CAPACITY OF CHILDREN. TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF Johann Heinric DOCTOR J. H. P. SEIDENSTUECKER, BY MRS. BARBARA O'SULLIVAN ADDICKS. TO WHICH IS ADDED BY THE TRANSLATOR, A TABLE OF THE FRENCH THE WHOLE, MAKING TWO PARTS IN ONE VOLUME, DEDICATED TO THE USE OF PARENTS AND JUNIOR SCHOOLS. NEW-YORK: COLLINS, BROTHER, & CO., 254 PEARL-ST. |