Excerpt from Macmillan's Progressive French Course: Containing a Systematic Syntax and Lesson in Composition As regards the Exercises which accompany this Syntax, it seemed to me to be plainly dictated by common sense that, at this stage of their studies, pupils should begin to try their hand at turning extracts from good authors into French, in preference to the endless disconnected sentences which in the long run cannot but prove very irksome to both pupil and teacher. With this view I have compiled a series of passages carefully selected and progressively arranged according to their difficulty, very smooth at the beginning but gradually tending up hill. Practice in translating these extracts will, step by step, and with the assistance of constant reference to the Syntax, initiate the student in the art of writing correct, if not elegant, F rench - ah accomplishment involving much more mental training than the uncompromising advocates of exclu sively Classic studies are ready to admit. 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.