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ELEMENTARY.

Une Année de Collège à Paris par ANDRÉ LAURIE. Adapted and Edited by FABIAN WARE, B. ès Sc. Notes and Vocabulary by C. H. S. BRERETON, M.A. (Cantab.), Lic. ès L. Authorised Edition. First Edition,

January, 1901.

"This text is happily chosen; it tells in an attractive form and in good French the experiences of some French schoolboys. . . . Has been carefully annotated."-School World.

Needless to say, the notes are extremely good and very helpful.”— Educational News.

"Will make an excellent reader for an advanced class. The story is one of schoolboy life in France, excellent in tone, and delightfully told in pure, modern French."-Schoolmaster.

Cannot fail to instruct and entertain the young student. heartily recommend it to the notice of teachers."-Teachers' Aid.

Au Pôle en Ballon par VICTOR PATRICE.

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Adapted and Edited by P. SHAW JEFFREY, M.A., Headmaster of the Royal Grammar School, Colchester. Authorised Edition. First Edition, February, 1901.

"A more exciting and interesting narrative of adventure the heart of youth could not desire. The notes are numerous and extremely good. The volume is one of the best of an excellent series."-Edu

cational News.

"Will appeal to boys who love adventure. The tales may be safely recommended to teachers in search of fresh and attractive matter for class reading and language study."-Guardian.

"Another volume of the excellent set of French books in Siepmann's Elementary French Series. It is sufficient to say that this volume keeps up the standard, and will serve excellently as a moderately difficult reader."-Schoolmaster.

"A capital story of moderate difficulty. There is plenty of incident and some humour in the narrative of this first visit to the North Pole, and we are sure that boys will be delighted with it. The notes are excellently worded, and supply all that is necessary."-School World. Voyage du Novice Jean-Paul à Travers la France d'Amerique.

par GEORGE LAMY. Ouvrage couronné par l'Institut (Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques). Adapted and edited by D. DEVAUX, B. ès L., Senior Assistant Master at St. Paul's School. First Edition, May, 1901.

Tartarin de Tarascon par ALPHONSE DAUDET, adapted and edited by OTTO SIEPMANN, Head of the Modern Language Department at Clifton College. Authorised Edition. First Edition, September, 1900.

"Daudet's immortal tale of Tartarin de Tarascon has been adapted and edited for schools by Mr. Otto Siepmann. The book is carefully edited and annotated, and will be heartily welcomed by students of French who can enjoy the delightful humour of the French Dickens.” -Scotsman.

"To edit the humorous tales of Tartarin's adventures was evidently a congenial task for Mr. Siepmann, to whose series this volume makes a valuable addition. From a teacher of so much experience we expect a good introduction, and in the notes just as much information as the schoolboy will find useful; and we are not disappointed. The fourth appendix contains an interesting chapter on word-formation. The book is well and carefully printed. The Word and Phrasebook' and the teacher's 'Key to the Appendices' have also been issued."-School World.

ELEMENTARY.

L'Ame de Beethoven par PIERRE COUER, adapted and edited by De V. PAYEN-PAYNE, Principal of Kensington Coaching College, formerly Assistant Master at King's College, London. First Edition, September,

1900.

"Messrs. Macmillan & Co. have added to 'Siepmann's Elementary French Series' an adaptation of Pierre Couer's story, L'Ame de Beethoven, made and edited by Mr. De V. Payen-Payne. It has good notes and a full vocabulary; and makes an admirable reading book for French classes."-Scotsman.

"This volume is the latest addition to 'Siepmann's French Series,' and is provided with all those accessories of words and phrases, sentences on syntax and idioms, and passages for retranslation into French, which are the distinctive features of an excellent collection of Readers. The text chosen for the present one is exceedingly interesting; and the necessary cutting down seems to have been done with care."-Glasgow Herald.

Word- and Phrase-Books (Price 6d.) intended to be used by pupils for Home Work are ready. If they are learnt regularly pari passu with the reading of the text they cannot fail to increase the Vocabulary of the pupils in the easiest and most effective way possible.

The "Keys" for the use of teachers only have also appeared.

edited by A. H. WALL, M.A., Assistant Master at Authorised Edition. First

Marlborough College.

Edition, March, 1900; Reprinted, October, 1900.

"This interesting little story is by Ernest Daudet, elder brother to the more famous Alphonse. It tells how a young lady in the south of France was carried off from the stage-coach one stormy night by her three brothers, and imprisoned in a lonely chateau. Her faithful steward endeavours to bring about her release, but the other passengers have been so terrorised by the brothers that one and all deny that any incident of the kind has taken place. It all works out well in the end, however. The lady is rescued from her dungeon, and her captors, whose object was to deprive her of her means, meet with their deserts. Mr. Wall gives a sufficiency of notes elucidating the text, and clearing up difficulties in connection with the grammar and pronunciation. A great feature of the book is that it is both a reader and a composition book. Constant repetition of words and phrases occurring in the story, and given in a list at the end, secures that the pupil shall have them as a permanent possession. The power to use them is obtained by working through the copious idiomatic sentences and prose passages based on the text. Intelligently used, this work cannot fail to leave the pupil with a very considerable knowledge of French, as well as some ability to write and speak it. This tastefully bound little volume deserves the highest commendation."-Educational News.

"The story is of rather an exciting nature, and is well suited for rapid reading. The notes are brief, but sufficient."-Educational Times.

"Mr. A. H. Wall has adapted and edited' Daudet's La Tour des Maures (Macmillan 2s) in Siepmann's Elementary French Series, which we have already noticed. It has the same merits as the others; brevity, clearness, and abundant aids to teaching. The print is good."

Literature.

"There is plenty of movement in the short story, which only takes up fifty-eight pages of large type, and can easily be read in half a term. The notes are good."-School World.

"The Word- and Phrase-Books' give the English and French (in parallel columns) of the lists of words and phrases for viva voce drill which are given in an appendix to the abovementioned reading books. The Keys contain these also, and renderings of the 'Sentences on Syntax and Idioms' and of the 'Passages for Translation.' They appear to have been carefully translated, and will be very welcome to teachers who use the books in question."-School World, March, 1899.

and edited by the late F. ASTON BINNS, M.A., Balliol College, Oxford, sometime Taylorian Scholar and Exhibitioner, and Assistant Master in Sherborne School. Authorised Edition. First edition,

March, 1900; reprinted December, 1900.

"This is one of the elementary texts' in Mr. Siepmann's popular series, and it is well suited for, say, a fourth form. The story will be new to most teachers; it is full of incident, partly humorous, partly sensational. Both the notes and vocabulary show careful work on the part of Mr. Aston Binns and Mr. T. H. Bayley, of Loretto, who undertook to finish the work left incomplete by Mr. Binn's death."-Educational Times.

"A text which boys will find of thrilling interest. It is rich in vocabulary and not overweighted with difficult constructions. We have been disappointed in no single instance in either notes or vocabulary, and the extensive aids to the acquisition of a stock of words and of facility in composition, which characterise this series, seem quite up to the usual level of excellence."-Guardian.

"The story is full of incident, and is suitable for rapid reading. The notes are thoroughly satisfactory, and the vocabulary has been compiled with commendable care. There are appendices for retranslation."School World.

"Quite worthy of being introduced in this way to the knowledge of young English students. The short introductions, and the notes, Vocabularies and appendices fully maintain their high standard." Bookseller.

The 'Word- and Phrase-books,' price 6d., give the English and French (in parallel columns) of the list of words and phrases for vivâ voce drill which are given in the first appendix to the editions belonging to this Series. They are intended to be used by the pupils for Home Work, and cannot fail to increase their vocabulary in the easiest and most effective way possible.

The Keys, price 2s. 6d. net each, contain these also, and besides renderings of the 'Sentences on Syntax and Idioms' (Appendix II) and of the 'Passages for Translation' (Appendix III). Alternate renderings are given in foot-notes.

VERNE, adapted and edited by LOUIS A. BARBÉ, B.A., Head Master of the Modern Language Department in the Glasgow Academy. Authorised Edition. First edition, October, 1899; reprinted September, 1900.

"This is an extremely happy addition to the elementary French series issued under the general editorship of MM. Siepmann and Pellissier The story is one which boys will readily read for its own sake. The text has been skilfully reduced so as to bring the entire story of the adventures of Phileas Fogg within the limits of a school text. The introduction gives as good and sympathetic an account of Jules Verne as boys can desire to have. The notes, which contain, besides the usual explanations of reasonable difficulties, a large amount of solid grammatical teaching, show that with M. Barbé the teaching of French means a great deal more than the mere superficial reading of the text. The addition of the vocabulary, the list of the irregular verbs occurring in the story, and the special appendices for viva-voce drill and the writing of French, make the book in all respects an excellent one for teaching purposes."-Glasgow Herald.

"This is a volume in the same series, and also deserves praise. The tale is well known, and will be eagerly read, for there is enough action to satisfy the most high-spirited boy. He will be grateful that the editor has written brief notes and supplied a vocabulary, from which he can get all the help he is likely to require."-Educational Times.

"Jules Verne's Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-vingts Jours, cut down to probably a quarter of its length, by Mr. L. A. Barbé for Siepmann's Elementary Texts, will be useful for third or fourth form students. The Vocabulary appears to be complete . . . the notes on the whole are good."-Guardian.

Siepmann's Elementary French Series will be found useful. Jules Verne's Tour du Monde en Quatre-vingts Jours has been compressed into less than a hundred pages, and furnished with all possible aids-brief notes, vocabulary, exercises in composition based on the book, and tables of English words and phrases for retranslation in class."Literature.

"The other volume is one of Siepmann's French Series, on which we have more than once expressed a favourable opinion. The well-known standard and method are maintained, and a vocabulary is provided to meet the almost universal demand."-Oxford Magazine.

"Of Jules Verne's work, which, in its English dress, is so well known, there is no need to speak, and indeed, the whole series may be most heartily commended to all who have charge of the modern language teaching in our public and grammar schools."--Bookseller.