Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-01-01 00:00:00

CHR,ISTAIAS HOLIDAYS!

JUVENILE CLASSES.
R. GEORGE THOMPSON will form his WRITING
and ARITHMETIC CLASSES, as usual, for the benefit of
oung Ladies and Gentlemen during their Christmas Holidays.
ADULT EVENING CLASSES
For WRITING, ARITHMETIC, BOOKKEEPING by DOUBLE ENTRY,
SnorruANn, &c., at 6,7, and 8 o'clock. Private Lessons at any
hour.

THOMPSON, 8, CLAYTON-SQUARE.
Mrs. THOMPSON gives Private Lessons to Ladies.
Mr. Thompson's beautiful Metallic Pen, made expressly for his
Pupils, may be had at the Establishment.

THE FRENCH. LANGUAGE.
" The principles of nature appear so simple, that many, consider-
ing them acknowledged facts, or undisputed truisms' do not
deem them worthy of notice. Thus has been rejected the fun-
damental law, that the ear alone causes the tongue to move;
for, had this been duly reflected upon, it must, at one period
or another, have led to the discovery of the true method of
teaching languages."—Dufi,ef.
• NortONS RAGONOT (of Paris), Author of the "Sym-
bolic Anglo-French Vocabulary," and of the " Easiest and
IS est Method of Learning French." The unsuccessfulness of the
prevailing mode of teaching foreign languages is proverbial; and
what other results can be looked for, when the teacher in general
:onsiders himself justified in disregarding the laws of nature so far
is to endeavour to impart sounds by the medium of the eyes, and
each the science of a language before the pupil can lisp its simplest
accents 1 With such a theory all human devices must necessarily
hil ; and hence the numerous complaints of wasted time and
neffectual endeavours, from those who have laboured in vain ; and
he general notion that a language can be acquired only in the
ountry where it is spoken; hence the despair of many students of
he French language of even understanding the rapid conversation
1' natives of France.
All these deplorable consequences may be obviated by the natural
ystem of teaching languages adopted by Mons. Itagonot.
To carry out the system in its perfection, it is desirable that
weral members of a family should take lessons together, much
dvantage being derived from numbers.
FAMILIES AND SCHOOLS ATTENDED. PRIVATE LESSONS

GIVEN.
erms for Evening Classes, £1 Is. per quarter, two Lessons a week,
Payable in Advance.

rii4r The "SYMBOLIC ANOLO-FBENCII VocastmAny," Fifth
dihon, particularly adapted for Schools, &c., approved and sane-
oiled for the use of the Institutions for the Deaf and Dumb, in
ngland and France.—To be had from the author, M. RAGONOT,
ad sold by all Booksellers.
115, Mount-pleasant, Liverpool.

UNIVERSITY OF FRANCE.
'-'ILASSICAL AND COMMERCIAL ACADEMY, 21,
RUE DE CRAILLOT (CLIAMPS-ELYSEES), 21, PARIS. Under the
trection of M. SERION, Licencie es Lettres. This establishment,
ninded twenty years ago, is delightfully situated in the most tran-
vil guarter of Paris, at a very short distance from the Tuileries.
c unites the combined advantages of town and country. A large
lay-ground planted with trees and an ample shed for winter
'creation, alarge refectory, rooms for classes and studies, properly
eated dormitories, a well mounted Gymnasium, everything
remonstrates to visitors that nothing has been neglected which
ould secure the health of the pupils. The most scrupulous and
•beral attention is paid to all religious matters, the pupils are
(inducted every Sunday to their respective places of worship, and
ti this point their instruction is wholly intrusted to ministers of
;heir own persuasion. The terms are £4B per annum and £6O for
parlour boarders : these terms include the following studies, which
are all taught by able professors—Greek, Latin, French, German,
Drawing, Arithmetic, Algebra and the higher mathematics, Geo-
Igraphy, History, Writing, Book-keeping, Chemistry, Natural Philo-
sophy, Natural History, Logic, etc. The following studies are extra
Italian, £2 per quarter; Piano, £2 per quarter; Fencing, £2 per
quarter ; Dancing, £1 per quarter ; Gymnastics, 12s. per quarter.'
A small number of pupils can have separate rooms at £lO pet
annum each extra. These terms are payable in advance, quarterly.
For the first few months the English pupils take lessons in French
with a master who speaks English ; but from the time that they
Understand a little French, no distinction is made between them
and the other pupils, in order that they may acquire,by continual inter-
course with the French, a good accent and a perfect fluency in a
short space of time. At the end of the scholastic year (August) a
general examination, conducted by the most distinguished profes-
sors of Paris, takes place ; this is followed by a distribution of prizes,
at which parents are invited to attend. Satisfactory English
references will be given to those parents whose sons have been
educated at this establisment. Mr. Edward P. McKnight, of 34,
Exchange-street East, Liverpool, has kindly offered to be referred
tahe having entrusted in succession his sons to M. Scroin's
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