CHAPTER V

METHODS OF TEACHING FRENCH--LATIN AND FRENCH--FRENCH AND ENGLISH DICTIONARIES--STUDY OF FRENCH LITERATURE 179

Usual methods of learning French--Reading and translation--Pronunciation--Rules of grammar--Importance of 'practice'--Latin and French text-books--Contrast of methods--Grammar and Practice--Books in French and English--French by translation--French dictionaries--Holyband's Dictionaries--Dictionary printed by Harrison--A place given to French in some Latin dictionaries--Veron--Baret--John Higgins--French-Latin dictionaries--Cotgrave's great French-English Dictionary--Sherwood's English-French Dictionary--Howell's editions of Cotgrave--The reading of French literature--Attitude of French teachers--Favourite authors--Histories and Memoirs of military life for soldiers and statesmen.