Excerpt from French Anecdotes: With Some Familiar Phrases And Idioms This collection of anecdotes and familiar phrases and idioms is published with the hope that it may in spire a more determined effort on the part of our students in high school and college to acquire a speak ing knowledge of the French language. The teacher of modern languages is being required to - day, and rightly so, to give much attention to the spoken language. Conversational drill must in the future occupy a more important place in class work than it did ten years ago. The teacher should no longer be overanxious that his class cover a pre scribed amount of ground before the close of the academic year. For the true test, after all, of our students' knowledge of their subject is their ability to use what they have acquired. In other words, has their work in language been merely a training of the eye, or has it trained as well - the ear and the organs of Speech? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.