ARRANGED PROGRESSIVELY WITH IDIOMA TIC NOTES

By AI.PHONSI: MARIETTE, MA.,

i^Jèssorand Examiner ofthe French Languuge and Literature at King's Collège,

London ; Late French Teac/ier to the Children ofH.R.H. the Prince of Walt».

New Edition. 1 vol., small 8vo, 892 pagres- Oloth, price 48. 6d.

"Professer Mariette is a teacher without dulness, yR\i.o adds 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 séries of extracts from good English writers, yery various in etyle, 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 ol the 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 upon its merits more than its convertibUity into French. Every passage may be so translated that a good translation shall seem to contain not the words only but the thoughts also, and some one of the moods of a Frenchman. In foot-notes carefuUy 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. Professer Mariette has taken the trouble to translate from contemporary French authors choice illustrations of the French of to-day, and 80 to translate them that they may be by a ekilful hand faithfuliy retumed to France. Hère again notes help the student to secure a mastery over French idiom, but the help becomes less fréquent as the volume draws 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 languag"^ of a neighbour, in the second part of the book, when he does not mistranslate, is actually writing French thoughts in the Frenchman'a way."— examiner.

*' A very useful school-book for students of French . . . Independently 0/ its educational uses, this is really a most amusing book, and one ovei which an idler might be tempted to dawdle for a whole moming."— LUerary Gazette.