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•• The resuit is a charming little book, which we can heartily reoommend to ail oui readers." School Board ChronicU»

u M. de Caudale, French Master at Clifton Collège, has prepared an excellent édition of Fonsard'sfamouscomedy * Le lion Amoureux* — notperhaps a work of genius, but on the whole the author*s masterpiece, and therefore having spécial interest as an example of the dramatist who led the reaction against the triumph of the romantic school, and also valuable for eduoational purposes from the purity and grâce of its language. M. de Candole has appended numerous notes and an index which increase the utility of the work as a claas-book." Scotsmam*

" Mous. H. J. V. de Candole, French master of Clifton Collège and lecturer at the Bristol Uniyersity Collège, has brought before the public, in an interesting form, one of the ftnest of Ponsard's productions. ' Le Lion Amoureux ' is the seventh volume of Hachette'a séries of modem French authors, a séries of spécial value and attractiveness to the more advanced class of students. The biographical sketch, which enters thoroughly into the spirit of Ponsard's style, is at the same time a comprehensive statement of his life and work and a careful criticism of his position in French literature. ~. . . • The notes and biographical index are copions and userai, the work of a mind well acquainted with the requirements of modem study in its advanced stages. They give to the English scholar a distinct idea, which would otherwise be diffl cuit of attainment, of the whole purpose of the French dramatist ; and make it possible for him to grasp, with as much ease as a French reader, détails that, wlthout them, would be passed over unpereeived and unappreciated. ' Le Lion Amoureux * is to be commended to teachers of French as more than usually interesting in itself, and rendered doubly so by M. Candole's method of treating it" The Western Daily Press.

" ' Le Lion Amoureux,' in the cheap and comprehensive form in which it has been jnst issued, will form a valuable addition to the séries of French educational works being publisbed by Messrs. Hachette and Co. M. de Candole is also to be complimented on the efficient mannerin which he has edited this little volume."

The Clifton ChronicU and Directory.

" HachetteTs French Library.— Professor H. J. V. de Candole, Ph.D., M.A., French lecturer at University Collège, Bristol, has Just published voL vli. of this séries of modem French authors, 'Le Lion Amoureux, 1 by François Ponsard. This play— the last but one written by the late poet— deals with tb* «vents ot the fieign of Terror, and was successif ully produced in Paris ten y ears ago. rbe pure and vigorous style adopted will oommend the work to a wide circle of readers, and it is needless to say M. Candole's edtting of the volume is worthy of one who is an experienced as well as an able contribulor to phitotogioal literature." The Bristol Daily Post.

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