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Title: Classic French Course in English

Author: William Cleaver Wilkinson

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Language: English

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=_THE AFTER-SCHOOL SERIES._=

CLASSIC FRENCH COURSE

IN ENGLISH.

BY

WILLIAM CLEAVER WILKINSON.

NEW YORK:
CHAUTAUQUA PRESS,
C. L. S. C. DEPARTMENT,
805 BROADWAY.
1886.

COPYRIGHT, 1886,

BY PHILLIPS & HUNT.

_OTHER VOLUMES IN THE AFTER-SCHOOL SERIES_

BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

*PREPARATORY GREEK COURSE IN ENGLISH $1.00
**PREPARATORY LATIN COURSE IN ENGLISH 1.00
*** COLLEGE GREEK COURSE IN ENGLISH 1.00
****COLLEGE LATIN COURSE IN ENGLISH 1.00

_The required books of the C. L. S. C. are recommended by a Council of
six. It must, however, be understood that recommendation does not
involve an approval by the Council, or by any member of it, of every
principle or doctrine contained in the book recommended._

ELECTROTYPED AND PRINTED
BY RAND, AVERY, & COMPANY.
BOSTON.

PREFACE.

The preparation of the present volume proposed to the author a task more
difficult far than that undertaken in any one of the four preceding
volumes of the group, THE AFTER-SCHOOL SERIES, to which it belongs.
Those volumes dealt with literatures limited and finished: this volume
deals with a literature indefinitely vast in extent, and still in vital
process of growth. The selection of material to be used was, in the case
of the earlier volumes, virtually made for the author beforehand, in a
manner greatly to ease his sense of responsibility for the exercise of
individual judgment and taste. Long prescription, joined to the
winnowing effect of wear and waste through time and chance, had left
little doubt what works of what writers, Greek and Roman, best deserved
now to be shown to the general reader. Besides this, the prevalent
custom of the schoo