ARRANGED PROGRESSIVE LY WITH 1D10MA TIC NOTES

By ALPHONSE MARIETTE, M A.,

Ftofessor and Examiner of lhe French Language and Literature at King's College ,

London ;

Late French Teacher to the Children of H. R. H. thé Prince of Wales.

New Edition. 1 vol., small 8vo, 392 pagres. Cloth, price 4s. 8d.

“Professor Mariette is a teacher without dulness, who add8 to a close intimacy with the literature of his own country the relish of a well-read Englishman for English books. The first part of his excellent little volume, entitled Half-hours of Translation , is a wellchosen sériés of extracts from good English writers, very various in style, and in the form of idiom employed. Now it is the prose of Macaulay, now the prose of Charles Lamb that yields an extract for translation into French ; this passage is from Dr. Johnson, that from Mr. Dickens. The range of sélection is, in fact, over the whole of the wide field of English prose, between the essays of Lord Bacon and those of contemporary journalists. Th® choice of each extract bas been obviously founded not upon its merits more than its convertibility into French. Every passage may be so translated that a good translation shall seem to contain not the words only but the thoughts aiso, and some one of the moods of a Frenchman. In foot-notes carefully appended to each passage, the labour of a pupil is lightened, or the work of self- éducation is assisted — by the supply of fragments of translation where the two languages differ in idiom. In the second part of the book, Professor Mariette has taken the trouble to translate from contemporary Fronch authors choice illustrations of the French of to-day, and so to translate them that they may be by a skilful hand faithfuliy retumed to France. Here again notes help the student to secure a mastery over French idiom, but the help becomes less frequent as the volume drawa towards a close. In the extracts from French writers there is the same regard paid to variety of tone, and the student who throughout the first part of the book is speaking the thoughts of his own land in the language of a neighbour, in the second part of the book, when he does not mistrans- Jate, is actually writing French thoughts in the Frenchman’s way.” — Examiner.

** A very useful school-book for students of French . . . Independently of its educational uses, this is really a most amusing book, and one ove* which an idler might be tempted to dawdle for a whole moming.”— Literary Gazette.