MORCEAUX CHOISIES DES AUTEURS MODERNES, A LA USAGE DE LA JEUNESSE

With a Vocabulary of the New and Difficult Words and Idiomatic Phrases adopted in Modern French Literature.

By F. ROWAN.

Edited by J. L. JEwETT, Editor of Ollendorff’s French Method. One volume, 12mo. 75 cents.

The chief object of the present volume is to offer the means of making the youth acquainted with the French Language, as itis spoken in the present day, and as it is presented in the works of tke modern authors of France, without the risk of sullying the mind of the young reader, by an introduction to such scenes and principles, as but too often disgrace the pages of writers who would be an honor to humanity, were their moral qualities but equal to their genius.

The second is to facilitate the task of the teacher, by endeavoring to render the work attractive in the eyes of the pupil; and such selections have therefore been made, as will, it is hoped, be interesting and entertaining to the young reader, while, at the same time, they will prove worthy specimens of the peculiar style of their respecuive authors, and sufficiently demonstrate the great idiomatic revolution which has taken place in the French Language within the last quarter of a century. y F :

The American edition of the work is rendered still more valuable and interesting by the addition of extracts from the writings of Sismondi and Mignet, modern historians of distinguished merit. The vocabulary of new and difficult words and idiomatic phrases is also more conveniently arranged for reference, and considerably enlarged; while the whole has undergone thorough revision, with a view to accuracy in every particular; and the orthography has been made to conform to that of the Dictionary of the Academy and the usage of modern writers.

List of Authors.—Alex. Dumas, Alex. de Tocqueville, Alfred de Vigney, va Karr, Aug. Thierry, Bignon, Capetigue, De Balzac, De Lamartine, E. Souvestre, Eugéne Sue, F. Soulié, Guizot, Gust. de Beaumont, Jules Janin, Leon Goslan, D’Aubigné, Mérimée, Michelet, Salvandy, Lavallée, Thiers, Victor Hugo, Fe Sismondi, Mignet,

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