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The Regular Verb is arranged so that all the correspond- ing tenses may be learned at once, the resemblances and differences between the four conjugations readily striking the eye of the learner, by their juxtaposition. together with exceptional forms and difficulties, which do not come within the scope of a book so purely introductory, are omitted.The Conversation exercises have been formed with the view of inducing the pupil to effort in a direction too little aimed at in French Grammars, and in which there should be a greater success in English schools. Having studiedthe grammatical part of the book, and having acquired the necessary knowledge of accidence, the pupil under the guidance of a good master should have no difficulty in making a profitable use in the way of conversation of the words supplied at the top of each page. Parrot-like learn- ing of phrases is thus avoided, and the pupil is encouraged to an intelligent exercise of his conversational powers in a new language.In teaching even my most junior classes I have been struck with the eager interest excited by the observation of the connection between French words and the Latin words with which the pupils were already familiar. Keenness in a philological direction is not an unusual feature among young persons, and it is well to take advantage of this by a continual comparison of two languages so closely related. In such works as those of Chassang and Breymann, this is admirably done, but I see no reason why the interest of the youngest pupil should not be awakened by the same method.