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FIRST FRENCH BOOK.

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

"M. Bué's First French Book' is much to be commended. The lessons are very gradual, and the rules are explained with a simplicity that must greatly help both teacher and pupil. At the end of each lesson a short vocabulary, a model exercise, and a conversation are given. At the end of the verbs is a short chapter for the inquisitive,' which is well worth getting up, even by more advanced pupils. The chief merit of elementary books of this kind lies in their arrangement, and in this respect we have seen no better book than M. Bué's."-School Guardian, Nov. 10th, 1877.

"A handy little volume, which may serve with advantage as an introduction to the study of more elaborate works."— The Pictorial World, Oct. 13, 1877.

"This is one of the best first-books to French that has ever been published. The difficulties of the language are presented in a series of exercises and lessons, through which the student is led before he realises that he has really had genuine difficulties presented to him. The vocabularies contained in the book have been selected very skilfully. A Short Chapter for the Inquisitive' is excellent. There is a French-English vocabulary containing nearly 1,500 words in most frequent use."-The Weekly Times, Oct. 14, 1877.

"This is a very excellent little work, and will be welcomed both in schools and for private teaching. It bears the impress of an experienced teacher; and is marked with great care in pointing out the peculiarities of the language in construction, idiom, and pronunciation. The printing also deserves a word of notice, the variations in termination, &c., to which it is desired to call attention, being given in excellent bold type-so that the utmost use is made of the eye-probably the most powerful of all senses in assisting the memory, especially in the case of young people. There is no doubt that it will quite fulfil the author's wish, modestly expressed in the preface, of becoming a useful and handy primer.'"-The London and China Express, Oct. 12, 1877.

"A great deal more of the information needed by a beginner than much larger works often contain, will be found in this little pocket grammar and exercise book. Only an experienced teacher could so well anticipate the preliminary difficulties and remove them from the path of a young linguist as M. Bué has done in his primer.". Public Opinion, Nov. 10, 1877.

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HENRI BUÉ, B.-ès-L.,

FRENCH MASTER AT MERCHANT TAYLORS', LONDON.

SECOND EDITION.

LIBRAIRIE HACHETTE & CIE.
LONDON: 18, KING WILLIAM STREET, CHARING CROSS.
PARIS: 79, BOULEVARD ST.-GERMAIN.

1878.

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ENGLISH AND FOREIGN STEAM PRINTER,

2, MARK LANE SQUARE, GREAT TOWER STREET, LONDON, E.C.

PREFACE.

THIS little book has been drawn up according to the requirements of the first standard.

It is intended as an introduction to French grammar, conversation and translation, and it contains vocabularies which will save the young beginner the trouble of using a dictionary.

May teachers and pupils find it a useful and handy primer.

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