Publisher's Synopsis
From the PREFACE.
This work has been prepared in response to a call for a grammar which should. do for French what the author's Brief German Grammar does for German: namely, present the most important facts of the language in the briefest form consistent with accuracy and clearness of statement. Much of the material of this book has been used in the author's larger French Grammar, but the arrangement is here entirely different, the treatment of the irregular verbs especially being much condensed.
The exercises will of course be used by each teacher in accordance with the needs and capacities of his class; but, where an immediate advance to reading is desired, the English-French exercises may with advantage be omitted until the grammar is gone over for the second time. The selected sentences at the end, all of which are taken from the works of French authors of established reputation, will be found of value for further grammatical drill. If a more fully developed set of exercises & desired, they may be found in the author's Practical French.
--W. D. W
