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Ex tracts from the beat English Authors to he rendered into FrencTi ; and

also passages translated from contemporary Frencli "Writers to be

re-translated. Arranged progressively, with idiomatic notes.

By ALPHONSE MARIETTE,

Prof essor and Examiner ofihe French Langxiage and Literaiure at King's Collège, London.

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

" Professer Mariette is a tcaelier \rithout dulness, who adds to a close intimacy with the literatiire of his ovm. country the iclish of a well-read Englishman for English books. The first part of his excellent îittlo volume, entitkd Ualf-hourx of Translation, is a ■well-chosen séries of extracts from good English ■writers, vcry various in style, and in the form of idiom employed. Now it is the prose of llaeaulay, now tho 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 Tvide field of English prose, hetween the essays of Lord Bacon and those of contemporary journahsts. The choice of each estract has heen ohviously founded not upon its merit more than its convertibility into French. Every passage may he Mt translated that a good translation shall seem to contain not the words only but tk.? 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 selfeducation is assisted, — by the supply of fragments of translation where the two languages differ in idiom. In the second part of the book, Professer Mariette has taken the trouble to translate from contemporary French authors choice illustrations of the French of to-day, and so to translate them that they may by a skilful hand be faithfully returned to France. Hero again notes help the student to securc a mastcry over French idiem, but the help becomes less fréquent as the volume draws towards a close. In the extracts from French -nriters there is the same regard paid to variety of tone, and the student who throughout the flrst part of the book is spoaking 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. . . Indopendently of its educational uses, this is really a most amusing book, and one over which an idler might bo tempted to dawdle for a whole morning."— iiierary Gazette.