PREFACE THIS third volume makes, with the first two, a complete course in French, intended to meet all the requirements of preparatory schools, academies, and colleges. The plan of the whole work is simple. The "First Year in French," designed to be a book for children, is made up of easy lessons, which will give the pupils such grammatical knowledge and practice in conversation as will enable them. to begin with ease the regular and systematic study of the language. In the "Second Year in French," an almost equal time is given to reading, conversation, translation, and grammar. By means of reading lessons and various oral and written exercises, both in French and English, the pupils will acquire at the same time the ability to speak the language and a knowledge of its grammar. Such a system, combining the two hitherto conflicting methods of translation and conversation, cannot fail to give good results, and its approval by so many prominent teachers only confirms the author's personal experience in the classroom. The "Third Year in French" deviates in no way from the plan adopted in the first two volumes. The study of verbs, the basis of the whole method, is still given the same importance. The Conditional, Subjunctive, and Infinitive moods, with the Participle, are treated with as much thoroughness as a book of this grade can permit; at the same time, the study of French syntax is continued and completed, ar special attention is given to all points which may prove be specially difficult for English-speaking students. In the various parts which constitute each lesson, this vo ume, compared with the preceding one, shows a marked pr gression. Many of the anecdotes or historic extracts, i French and English, bear the names of well-known author such as Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Lamartine, Voltaire, th Duc de Saint-Simon, Hawthorne, Irving, etc., thus initiatin the students into the style of classic and modern writers, and preparing them for the reading of the masterpieces of French literature. The translation given at the end of the reading lessons and, under the title of "Gallicismes," the renderings of ex pressions and constructions that are peculiar to the French language, plainly suggest the necessity of familiarizing the students with the use of the idioms. It is also highly advisable to exercise them early in composition. This may be done by asking them to reproduce, without any previous preparation, the whole or parts of one of the old reading lessons or translations. There can be no better test of the pupils' work and proficiency. Besides tables of regular and irregular verbs, a list of French proverbs, and the usual vocabularies, this volume contains, under the title of "Poems for Memorizing," selections from various French poets, taken from the list issued by the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York. The students of the third year, who are required to write from memory, as a part of the French examination, such of these poems as are chosen every year by the university, will find them on that account a useful addition to this book. NEW YORK, May, 1897. L. C. S. CONTENTS A review of the indicative and imperative moods of avoir, être, aimer. The clauses: independent, principal, and subordinate clauses. Reading: La Légende de Loïs. - Exercises A review of the indicative and imperative moods of finir, rece- voir, rompre. - Reading: La Légende de Loïs. - The plural of A review of the indicative and imperative moods of the passive A review of the indicative and imperative moods of the pronominal verb se flatter. - Reading: Une Leçon de Probité. - The plural of proper nouns, and nouns taken from foreign languages. CONDITIONAL MOOD: rules of formation; the present and past con- The present and past conditional of recevoir and rompre. Reading: La Fileuse de Folgoat. - Use of the articles le, la, 8. The present and past conditional of the passive verb être aimé. Reading: Dieu Fait Bien ce qu'il Fait. - Peculiarities of the 9. The present and past conditional of the pronominal verb se flatter and the impersonal verb y avoir. - Reading: Héroïsme et Hu- milité. - Peculiarities of the agreement of adjectives, continued. 10. SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD: rules of formation; the present and perfect subjunctive of avoir and être. - Reading: Héroïsme et Humi- lité. Peculiarities of the agreement of adjectives, continued. 61 11. The imperfect and pluperfect subjunctive of avoir and être. Use of the subjunctive or infinitive after the verbs and expres- sions which signify a sentiment or an act of the will.-Reading: 12. The present and imperfect subjunctive of aimer and finir. of the subjunctive or infinitive after certain impersonal verbs and expressions; also after verbs and expressions signifying or implying negation or doubt.-Reading: Le Meunier Sans-souci. -Peculiarities of the agreement of nu, demi, attendu, passé, 13. The perfect and pluperfect subjunctive of aimer and finir. Use of the subjunctive after a relative pronoun preceded by a negative or superlative expression. - Reading: Leçon donnée à l'Orgueil. - Two adjectives or verbs having the same word, or different words, as their object or objects. - Exercises 14. The present and imperfect subjunctive of recevoir and rompre. Use of the subjunctive after quel que, quelque, quoi que, qui que, si ... que; also after certain conjunctions. — Read- 15. The perfect and pluperfect subjunctive of recevoir and rompre. Use of the pluperfect subjunctive as a second form of the past A review of the subjunctive mood of avoir, être, and the four conjugations. Reading: Dévoûment des Six Bourgeois de Calais. Use of même. - Exercises. - Irregular verbs 17. Use of the different tenses of the subjunctive mood. - Reading: Dévoûment des Six Bourgeois de Calais. - Use of leur, leurs, 18. Peculiarities of the use of the different tenses of the subjunctive mood. Reading: Première Passe d'Arm's de Bertrand Du- 19. The subjunctive mood of the passive verb être aimé. — Reading: Jeanne d'Arc.- Use of ce, il, ils, elle, elles. - Exercises. 20. The subjunctive mood of the pronominal verb se flatter. - Read- ing: Le Moine Dormeur. -The distinction between leur, a personal pronoun, and leur, leurs, a possessive adjective. - 21. The subjunctive mood of the impersonal verb falloir. — Reading: L'Académie Silencieuse.· Use of the pronouns lui, elle, eux, |