PREFACE. THE first two parts of my Course of Instruction in the Study of the French Language, the ACCIDENCE and SYNTAX, bave been chiefly written for pupils acquainted with Latin, though even those not conversant with this tongue may derive some benefit from it. The third part, on the EXERCISES of the ACCIDENCE and SYNTAX, differs from many other existing French Grammars in this: 1. That throughout all the Exercises the application to the rules is given in French on one side, in English on the other. 2. Only in the first 47 pages is the Vocabulary given at the top of the Exercises; afterwards the Vocabulary is placed at the end of the book, thereby enabling the pupil to acquire the language in a synthetical as well as in an analytical manner. 3. The Exercises on the Syntax, in French as well as in English, are all taken from standard authors—a labour which, for the English Exercises alone, has occupied a considerable time. The selecting, the verifying, the looking through of so many different passages, the finding a nice phrase here, and a pithy saying there, have been to me more a labour of love and pleasure than a mere taskwork. The pupil will thereby have the |