plan the usual trouble of referring to various places is obviated. The exercises and rules of the whole of the Grammar, but more particularly of this part, must be considered chiefly as an index to conversation in the absence of the master. It is presumed, they will be found sufficiently elucidatory of all the most difficult idioms, and replete with those delicacies of expression in which the French language so peculiarly abounds, thus enabling the learner not only to bear his part in the conversation of persons of intelligence and fashion, but to have a full relish for the beauties of French authors, and a just conception of the merits of their compositions.
A Treatise on French Poetry is introduced into the second volume, which is followed by a classified Vocabulary,-a compendium of the sentences most useful in familiar discourse, besides numerous models of notes, letters of compliment and business, with the forms of documents most usually required in affairs of commerce; -exercises (in French) of grammatical analysis; and, for the particular use of such English gentlemen as are, generally speaking, unacquainted with French, but who, on their visit to the metropolis of France, may be desirous to make themselves well understood, and to avail themselves of the opportunity of acquiring some knowledge of the language, a collection has been made, in the form of dialogue, of all the phrases, directions, observations, &c. that commonly occur in a journey from Calais to Paris, and on the
Such is an outline of the work by which I propose to facilitate the acquisition of the most useful of all modern languages, and, confidently trusting that it will be found to justify my pretensions, I respectfully submit it to the public.