... when acquired according to the usual snethod, is almost useless to thousands of very clever persons, that is to say, they can speak it but with great ditficulty, and understand very little sv hen spoken to by native F rench. F or the correctness of'this assertion ...

... attc with hsis mnost saniguine expectatiofls. Let it be taket, into consideratiuti that the L earners are flrst taught to speak assit tratisltt Frenich, before they aire taughlt the grammtatical coitstructijotn ot' it. 'jim propriety of' ?? prottietlhin ...