OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE FRENCH GRAMMAR MASTER'S COPY (Parts I. and II.) FOR SCHOOLS AND PRIVATE PUPILS PREPARING FOR HACHETTE AND COMPANY LONDON: 18 KING WILLIAM STREET, CHARING CROSS 1903 All rights reserved For Schools and Private Pupils, preparing for the Oxford, Cambridge, and College of Preceptors' Local Examinations. For the Army and Navy, Civil Service, and Universities. In Five Parts or Years BY HUNT AND WUILLEMIN Containing 1000 detached Sentences and 110 connected Paragraphs Master's Book to Parts I. and II. (For Teachers only.) Cloth, 58. This course is really a considerably cheaper publication than any hitherto brought out, and altogether precludes the necessity of buying as a necessary complement-1. An English into French Translation Book. 2. An Idiom Book. 3. A Dictation Book. 4. A Book on the History of French Literature. 5. A Key for Students who get up French without the assistance of a Master, since the Master's Book is both the Grammar and the Key. 'We gladly welcome this Grammar, which, while fulfilling its professed object as a course preparatory for examinations, at the same time can be used with equal advantage by those who have no final test to work for, but who simply aim at acquiring a thorough knowledge of French in an attractive manner. The whole of the parts or terms are properly graduated, and each lesson contains proportionate parts of grammar, idioms, translations from French and into French, so as to serve as a very good model of what a lesson in French should be. As a companion to the Grammar the authors have also published a Master's Book, containing questions and exercises on the lessons, and the translation into French of the English pieces in the Pupil's Book. At the end the authors have given a short précis of French Literature.'-Educational Times. THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE FRENCH GRAMMAR First Book PREPARING FOR THE COLLEGE OF PRECEPTORS AND TRINITY COLLEGE (THIRD CLASS) FOR THE PRELIMINARY LEGAL, MEDICAL, SCIENTIFIC AND MILITARY AND FOR THE MATRICULATION EXAMINATIONS THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE FRENCH GRAMMAR. THIS PREFACE TO THE MASTER'S BOOK. HIS publication is the result of our experience as Teachers of French in English Schools and Colleges preparing for Public Examinations, and as Editors of the "French Examiners." The number of French grammars is legion; some of them are very good, so far as accuracy of rules and sensible exercises are concerned; but they are all compiled on the same dry model, and no one has yet attempted to break away from the old routine, which consists in rendering the study of a language as unpalatable as mere grammatical rules and disconnected sentences can make it. A glance at any of our lessons will convince the reader of the justice of our claims to having based our publication on an entirely new system, the advantages of which we beg here to enumerate. I. Our work is based on the Oxford and Cambridge Examination Papers for twenty years, and the highly instructive principle of teaching the pupil to find out examples for himself in order to show that he understands the rules, has been kept in view throughout the books. II. "The Oxford and Cambridge French Grammar," together with the "Examiners," will serve as a guide for schools preparing for |