OPINIONS OF THE PBESS

"A good school-book. The type is as dear as the arrangement/'— Athenœum, Jan. 6, 1877.

"We are not astonished to hear that it has met with the mort flattering réception." — School Board Chroniele, March 10, 1877.

" We hâve no hésitation in stating onr opinion that no more userai or practical introduction to the French langnage has been published than this."— Publie Opinion, March 24, 1877.

"England is fortunate in the services of a small knot of French inasters like MM. Masson and Brette, who hâve, alike by their teachmg and their school-books, done much for the scientific stndy of the langnage and literature of France. After successfiilly introducing inta English form the ' Public School French Grammor,' in which M. Littré'e researches are happily applied by M. Brachet so as to show the relation of modem French to Latin, MM. Brette and Masson hère translate and adapt the Petite or Elementary French Gxammar. That has at onoe proved as popular as the more elaborate treatise." — Edinburgh Daify Meview, March 20, 1877.

" Of this excellent school séries we hâve before ns the ' Public School Elementary French Grammar' — (1) Accidence, and (2) Syntax. Brachet's work is simply beyond comparison with any other of ite class ; and its scientific character is not sacrificed in the very judicion» adaptation which has made it available for English stridents. — There t» to better elementary French Grammar , whetherfor boys or for airls."— Hereford Times, April 11, 1877.

"Messrs. Hachette issue some valuable contributions to their sériée tf French Educational works. M. Auguste Brachet is well known aa one of the most scientific and learned of French philologists and grammarians, and the practical utility of his 'Elementary French Grammar' is proved by the fact that the translation of it by the Rev. P. H. Brette, head master of the French School at Christ's Hospital, and Mr. G. Masson, assistant master at Harrow, has already reached a second édition. "—The Seotsman, April 10, 1877.