OR

Extracts from the beat English Authors to be rendered into French ; and

also passages translated from contemporary French Writers to be

re-translated. Arranged progressively, with idiomatic notes.

By ALPHONSE MARIETTE,

Professer and Examiner ofthe French Language and Literature ai King's

Collège, London.

New Edition. 1 vol., small 8vo., 392 pages cloth, price 4s. 6d.

" Professor Mariette is a teacher without dulness, who adds to a close intimacy wifh 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-hour* of Translation, is a well-chosen séries 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 â-om Mr. Dickens. The range of sélection is, in fact, over the whole ofthe wide field of English prose, between the essays of Lord Bacon and those of contemporary journalists. The choice of each extract has been obviously founded not npon its merit more than its convertibility into French. Every passage majr be eo translated that a good translation shall seem to oontain not the words only but tL», thoughts also, and some one of the moods of a Frenchman. In foot-notes, carefully appended to each passage, the labour of the pupil is lightened, or the work of selféducation is assisted, — by the supply of fragments of translation where the two language» differ in idiom. In the second part of the book, Professor Mariette has taken the. trouble to translate from contemporary French authors choice illustrations of the Frenéh of to-day, and so to translate them that they may by a skilful hand be faithrally returnect to France. Hère again notes help the student to secure a mastery over French idiem, but the help becomes less fréquent as the volume draws towards a close. In the extract» from French writers there is the same regard paid to variety of tone, and the student who throughout the flrst 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 mistranslate, 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 amusîng book, and one over whioh an idler mlght be tempted to dawdle for a whole morning."— Literary Gazette.