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FRENCH.
B. A. COURSE.
Text-Books.—Whitney's Large French Grammar and Introductory
French Reader; Bruno's Tour de la France; Joynes' Classic French Plays;
Bowen's French Lyrics; Fontaine's Fleurs de France; Fortier's Littérature
Française. Exercises. Parallel reading (completion of the texts begun in
class). Heath's, Gasc's or Bellows' Dictionary. The texts used have been
so chosen as to form a suitable general introduction (a) to the grammar, (b)
to the vocabulary, (c) to the history and geography, and (d) to the literature
of France in the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries.
M. A. COURSE.
For pronunciation: Koschwitz' Parlers Parisiens; Passy's Sons du
Français (Association Fonétique). For reference: Harrison's French Syntax.
For reading: Fasnacht's Select Specimens of Great French Writers;
Masson's Series of French Prose (for the study of select periods of French
culture and civilization); Voltaire's Siècle de Louis XIV (for the study of
one typical reign); professor's lectures on Eminent French Writers; Chardenal's
Advanced Exercises. Examinations on definite assigned work.
In 1896 a course of seven illustrated lectures on French art, architecture,
literature, and history was given.
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