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54 The Publishers' Circular jan. i5, Esg...
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54 The Publishers' Circular Jan. I5, Esg...
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DR . DE F I V AS ' FRENCH EDUCATIONAL WORKS . ' We have previously expressed a very favourable opinion of the works written for learners of French by Dr . de Fivas , and need now only to call attention to the new additions recently issued . Their great popularity is evidenced by the fact that they have all passed through several editions , the grammar having reached the forty-fourth . There are many excellent French grammars in the authors market , co but nta we ined know in the of fezv u Beaut equal is" to are De well Fivas chosen \ The . The extracts tl Nezv from Gu French ide to French Conversation" will be found extremely useful to tourists , " Le Trfeor National " contains graduated exercises , intended to facilitate the acquisition of t / ie power of translating English into French , while the " Introduction " provides a good selection of easy French passages , affording suitable reading for beginners . ' The Schoolmaster , Dec . 4 , 1880 . DE FIVAS' NEW GRAMMAR OF FRENCH GRAMMARS ; comprising tho substance of all the most approved French Grammars extant , hut more especially of the standard work , * La Grammaire des Grammaires / sanctioned hy tho French Academy and the University of Paris . With numerous Exercises and Examples illustrative of every Rule . By Dr . V . de Pitas , M . A ., F . E . I . S ., Member of the Grammatical Society of Paris , & c . 44 th Edition , enlarged and improved , 3 * . 6 d . fitrongly bound . [ Just published ' . Note . — The AcadSmie Francaise having , in 1877 , issued a New Edition of their Dictionary , intro > during many innovations , the opportunity has been taken to thoroughly revise this Grammar in accordance therewith . Many other improvements and amplifications have at the same time been effected , with a view to maintaining the long-established reputation of the New Grammar of French Grammars as a thoroughly reliable modern class-book , acceptable to Teachers and Masters throughout the British Empire . Opinions of the Press . looked * At into once a map the simplest , so well and defined most is com the plete course Grammar of study of as the explained French by Language M . de Fivas . To /— the Literary pupil the Gazet effect te is . almost as if ho * Thia Grammar is the most systematic and distinct that we have seen . Thfc work is simple in its arrangement * , clear and precine in ita definitions , and the Exercises under each head most appropriate and useful . '—Chronicle . ' This Grammar is the most concise , philosophical , and satisfactory which has come under onr Edinburgh notice . ' Journal . * This "French Grammar has for a long time been recognised as the heat we have in England , and ifc seems to be rapidly superseding most others . '—Educational Times . * The very best of the many able works which the present day has produced to meet the requirements of the Students of the French Language—in other words , of all who aim at belonging to the educated classes . '—Public Opinion . ' We speak with personal knowledge of its terseness , clearness , and good arrangement , and strongly English recommend Churchman it . ' . the " * The exercises Grammar illuRtrate ia very every full thing and th complete at can be , and reduced the to publishers rules in are the not French guilty language of exaggeration . " We can when warmly they recommend state know that oi it to private ptudents as admirably adapted to meet their requirements , whilst as a class-book : for schools we none more lucid , complete , and trustworthy . '—Huddkiisfikld Examiner . possi ble Tho /— wants Guernsey of learn Comet ers . have been carefully Btudied , with the result of producing a book as near pe rfection as * Of the many French Grammars which I have conpultod , the one that I consider , upon close and f requen examination , to be the K fullest ev . J , . clearest D . COLLifl , and , Head most Master exact , of is the tho G " rammar Grammaire School des of Grammaires King Edward " of tho Dr . Sixth V . De , Bronisgrove Fivos . ' . A Key to the Grammar . Containing , besides a Translation of & 6 Exercises , numerous Grammatical and Critical Remarks , not to be found in other Grammars . 3 s . 6 d . bound . ( 43 , ) . London : CROSBY LOCKWOOD & CO ., 7 Stationers ' -Hall Court , Ludgate IliM ^
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Jan. 15, 1881, page 54, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15011881/page/54/
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