THE PHILOLOGY OF THE FRENCH LANGUAGE. BY A. L. MEISSNER, PH.D., PROFESSOR OF MODERN LANGUAGES IN THE QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY, IN IRELAND. BEING A NEW AND CORRECTED EDITION OF THE "PALÆSTRA GALLICA." THE LIBRAIRIE HACHETTE & CIE. PARIS: 79, BOULEVARD ST. GERMAIN. "Ne quis igitur tamquam parva fastidiat grammatices elementa: non LONDON: PRINTED BY RANKEN AND CO., DRURY HOUSE, ST. MARY-LE-STRAND, W.C. PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION. THE Copyright of this book having passed into other hands, and a fresh issue being determined on, I have gladly seized the opportunity of correcting some typographical errors and inadvertencies. The many favourable notices, both in the English and Continental press, as well as the frequent references made to the book in educational works edited by distinguished teachers, show sufficiently that the book filled up a void, and that its publication has promoted a more scientific and serious study of the French language. Students who have mastered its contents will be sufficiently prepared to enter on the study of the "Chanson de Roland," or, what I should prefer, M. Gaston Paris' edition of the "Vie de Saint Alexis." In the introductions to the various versions of this poem, M. Paris has given a complete history of medial French. As most students read, and most teachers prepare their pupils, for some examination, I have appended a series of examination-questions, which, I trust, will be found useful by both teacher and learner. Easter, 1874. ERRATA. Page 7 line 17 from the top, erase: écluse, sluice, schleuse, which are derived from the L.L. exclusa. Page 20 line 11 from the bottom, read: kephalé, caput, for daktylos, digitus. Page 27 line 19 from the bottom, read: hambre for hombre. |