CHEFS-D’ŒUVRES DRAMATIQUES LANGUE FRANCAISE

Mis en Ordre Progressif, et Annotés, pour en faciliter L’Intelligence.

PAR A. G. COLLOT, Professor de Langues et de Litterature

One Volume, 12mo. of 520 pages. Price $1.

We have examined this book with great interest, and can confidently rec.mmena It to students and teachers of the French language, as better adapted to the purposes of a reading book nan any other with which we are acquainted. Itis made up of fourteen complete dramas, taken from the works of the best and purest writers, among which are the great names of Corneille, Racine, Moliere, and Piron. The pieces are systematically arranged in progressive order, and the idiomatical difficulties of the language are fully and clearly explained in the notes. Tc those who are desirous of speaking French this book is invaluable, as the conversational and idiomatic phrases, so indispensable to this accomplishment, are met with on every page ; and to those who wish to cultivate their taste, and to obtain a knowledge, not only of the French language, but of the writings of 1ts most eminent dramatists, this volume will supply the place of voluminous collections not easy to be obtained. Its typographical accuracy and appearance has seldom been equalled in any French book that has heretojore issued from the press of this country.— Courier and Enquirer.

This book is made up of pieces of progressive difficulty, as exercises in the study of French. We have first a Proverb or two in the simplest style, with foot-notes explanatory of idiomatic

hrases ; then a couple of Berquin’s pieces, intended for learners; then some half dozen of ribe’s popular dramas, full of action, and exhibiting many peculiarities of French manners and language ; Moliere’s Misanthrope ; Voltaire’s Mérope; Racine’s Athalie ; and, lastly, the Cinna of Corneille—all entire ; which is, certainly, an improvement on all other French reading books, the fragmentary style of which has often vexed us. The whole appears to us admirably adapted for its purpose.— Christian Examiner.