Key to the Exercises in Olendorff's New Method of Learning to Read ... French Language

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D. Appleton & Company, 1853
 

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Page 295 - It is a very charming collection of some of the sweetest and most graceful verses In the French Language. We were hardly aware, till we looked over this book, that so many distinguished French authors had contributed to. a class of productions, so peculiarly suited to readers of an early age."— Evening Post.
Page 293 - WORD, according to the French Academy and the most eminent Lexicographers and Grammarians ; together with 750 Critical Remarks, in which the various methods of pronouncing employed by different authors are investigated and compared with each other. The SECOND PART containing a copious Vocabulary of English words and expressions, with the Pronunciation according to Walker.
Page 295 - This is an admirable compilation. The selections have been made with reference to purity of sentiment and pot % tic finish; the larger portion of the effusions are among the best of the best authors, including the names of Lamartine, Beranger, Victor Hugo, and other living poets of wide celebrity."—JK Y.
Page 292 - The value of the work has been greatly enhanced by a careful revision, and the addition of an appendix containing matter essential to its compete teness either as a book foi the use of teachers or for self-instruction.

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