PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. EXPERIENCE having convinced the Author of the practicable as well as advantageous introduction of the present Work into advanced Classes, a Second Edition is now presented to the Public, and especially to heads of establishments, as well as Professors, and Teachers of French, in whose hands it is placed with full confidence. The Author, while using the present Grammar in his Class, has had the pleasure of daily witnessing the gratification felt by his pupils in entering upon matters of a novel cast, and whose superiority, they found, was calculated to improve their minds, as well as their knowledge of French. Under these circumstances, he feels assured that those who may do him the honour of introducing it, will have cause to be satisfied with the result,-a result befitting the maturity of understanding and the acquirements of the pupils, to whom its use may be recommended. As to the manner in which the Work is performed, the Author thinks proper to leave that delicate matter to competent judges; but he may venture to hope that the present Grammar will find some encouragement, which, after thirty years of Grammatical labours and devotedness to the cause of French Education, would afford him no small degree of comfort and satisfaction. 8. NELSON STREET, September 1846. INTRODUCTION, CONTENTS. Page. 1 CHAPTER I.-ORTHOPHONY. TABLEAU of the matter contained in Chapter I. on Ortho- phony, I. Phonical elements called Vowels, II. Nature of E Guttural or Mute, III. Observations on OI, and Nasal Sounds, IV. Phonical elements called Consonants, SECTION I. Definition of Quantity, Rules on Quantity, Exercises on Quantity, Exercises on the Accent, |