PUBLISHED BY IVISON, FniNTSTEY & CO., NEW YORK. 



FASQUELLE'S 

 FRENCH SERIES. 



By LOUIS FASQUELLE, LL.D., 



Professor of Modern Languages in the University of Michigan 



CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES. 



1. The plan of this popular Series embraces a combinatioi 

 of the two rival systems ; the Oral, adopted by Ollendorff, 

 Robertson, Manesca, and others, with the old Classical, or 

 Grammatical System. One of its principal features is a con- 

 stant comparison of the construction of the French and English 

 Languages. 



2. Another important feature consists in the facility with 

 which the instructor or student can elect in the course of stud) 

 the practice and theory combined, or as much or as little of 

 either as he deems proper. 



3. The " Course" commences with a complete though short 

 treatise on pronunciation, presenting the power of each letter 

 as initial, medial, or final, and also its sound when final and 

 carried to the next word, in reading or speaking. 



4. The changes in the words are presented in the most simple 

 manner, and copiously exemplified by conversational phrases. 



5. The rules of composition, grammatical and idiomatical, 

 are introduced gradually, so as not to offer too many difficulties 

 at one time. 



G. The verbs are grouped by tenses, and comparisons insti- 

 tuted, showing their resemblance or difference of termination 

 in the different conjugations. 



V. The second, or theoretical part, offers, in a condensed 

 form, a solution of the principal difficulties of the language. 



8. The Rules are deduced from the best authorities, and illus- 

 traded by short extracts from the best French ivriters. 



9. A treatise on gender is given, containing rules for determin- 

 ing gender by the meaning of words, and also by the termination, 



10. The Irregular, Defective, and Peculiar verbs are pre- 

 sented in an Alphabetical Table, producing a Complete Dic- 

 tionary of these verbs. 



