French Through Pictures by I. A. Richards [Leatherbound]

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Total 300 thoroughly illustrated. 

"This French text, prepared through the collaboration of Mrs. C. Bruce Ilsley, Professor of French at Wellesley College, is the first such adaptation (of English through pictures) to be completed. By no means a mere translation of the English Pocket Book, the French primer starts from the pictures themselves, simple explanations of an organic sequence of related items of experience, and uses them as a scaffold for building French structure and essential vocabulary. Like its English model, the text is graded. Its design, word by word, sentence by sentence, is planned and controlled to smooth and support first steps in the language. A continuous pictorial commentary in stick-figure drawings supplies an adequate running explanation for the meanings of the earlier sentences. As ideas as well as objects are discussed in the later pages, words already made clear are brought back to help explain the new. The sequence is self-reviewing."

French Through Pictures is a classical book which requires no prior knowledge in the language to be used for anyone. It is throughly illustrated.