LESSONS IN FBEN 



166 



The tune " Molcombe," which was brought under the reader's 

 ice in our last lesson, and " Edgeware " in this, will illus- 

 ,to to our pupils the effect of transition into the key of the 

 inant. We have given them in the new notation only, 

 order that our pupils may have an exercise in copying theso 

 tones as well as others into the old notation. It would be ex- 



cellent practice for such of our pupils who desire to read and 

 writo the old notation, as well as the new notation, wit; 

 facility, to do this with every exercise that has been and ma,) 

 be brought under their notice namely, to write out in the- 

 old notation exorcises given in the new notation only, and 



v\ce versa. 



Music from HANDEL.] 



EXERCISE 42. EDGWARE. KBY E. M. 66. [Words by BARRT CORNWALL. 



HOURS, 



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2. Song from laser thoughts should win us; 



Song should charm us out of woe ; 

 SONO SHOULD 8TIE THE HEART WITHIN US, 

 LIKE A PATRIOT'S FRIENDLY BLOW. 



3. Song should tpur the mind to duty, 



Nerve the weak, and stir the strong : 

 EVERT DEED OF TRUTH AND BEAUTY 

 SHOULD BE CROWNED WITH STARRY SONO! 



LESSONS IN FRENCH. L VII. 



36. KEMARKS ON THE POSSESSIVE PRONOUN. 



(1.) IT may be seen from the table given in the last lesson 

 that the termination of the possessive pronoun agrees in 

 gender and number with the object possessed : 



Votre canif et le mien. Votre plume et la mimnt. 



Your penknife and mine. Four pen and mine. 



Vos freres et let mien*. Vos soeurs et lea mteimes. 



Your brothers and mine. Four sisters and mine. 



(2.) The article is an inseparable part of these pronouns, and 

 iergoes with them the same change as when it is joined to a 

 onn: 



r mine du mien, de la mienne, des miens, des miennes, etc- 

 i ours an notre, a la notre, aux notres, aux notres, etc. 



Je parle de ses parents, et il I I npeok of his relatives, and Tw 

 parle des leurs. | speaks of theirs. 



(3.) These pronouns should relate to a noun* previously 

 expressed, with which they must agree in gender, although 

 they may differ in number : 



Votre maison est plus haute que Four house is higher than theirs 

 la It HI-. u. 



frere est plus ag(S que les His brother is older than yours art. 



(4.) These pronouns may, however, be used absolutely when 



This rule is not always observed in mercantile correspondence, in 

 which is often found : J'al recu In v6tre en date du . . . instead of 

 J'al recu votre lettre en date du . . . / received your Utter dated 

 a form which is not to be imitated. 





we mean thereby our family, near relatives, friends, partisans, 

 soldiers, countrymen, etc. : 



Moi, j'oi les mien*, la cour, le 

 peuple a contenter. 



LA FONTAINE. 



Malheureux .... qui porte 

 chez les siens le glaive et les flam- 

 beaux. COLARDEAU. 



C'est a sous a payer pour les 

 crimes des n6tres. RACINE. 



I have my family or friend*, the 

 court, the people to please. 



Wretched is he who carries among 

 his fellow-cititens the sword and On 

 torch. 



We mutt bear the penalty of (V 

 crimes of our family or people. 



(5.) Le mien and le tien are also used absolutely as the 

 words mine and thine in English, in the sense of possession , 

 property : 



Et It mien et le tien, deux fjvres 

 pointilleux. DOILEAU. 



Le tien et le mien, sent les 

 sources de toutes les divisions et 

 de toutes les querellea. 



OIRAULT-DUVIVIEB, 



And mine and thine ( 

 (uum), (100 punctilio** brother*. 



Mine and thine (meum and tatm) 

 are the source* of all divisions and. 

 quarrel*. 



37. DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS. 



Singular. 

 Masculine. Fminin. 



oelui, 



celui-oi, 

 cclui-la, 



cello, 



.-M.' .-i, 



cello-la, 



( this. 

 \that. 



Plural. 

 Jfa.culine. Ftminine. 



Iheee, 



th\. oeax-ci, 



that. ceux-li, 



ce, i*, they. 



,. .:, i i.i, 



Absolute Demonstrative Pronouns. 

 ced, thi*. \ not ued in th 

 oela, that, j p)ral. 



