A LA USAGE DE LA JEUNESSE

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

BïF. ROWAX.

Edited by J. L. Jkwett, Editor of Ollendorff's French Method. One Volume, l2mo. 75 cents.

The chief object of the présent vo'.nme is to offer the means of making the youth acquainted with the French Language, as it is spoken in the présent day, and as it is presented in the works of the modem authors of France, without the risk of suilying the mitid of the young reader, by an introduction to such scènes and principles, as but too often disgrâce the pages of writers who would be an honor to humauity, were their moral qnalities but eqnal to their genius.

The second is to faciliîate the task of the teacher, by endeavoring to render the work attractive in the eyes of the pupii ; and such sélections hâve therefore been made, as will, it is hoped, be inte esting and entertaining to the young reader, while, at the same time, they will prove worthy *]>ecimens of the peculiar style of their respective authors, and sufficiently demonstrate the great idiomatic révolution which lias taken place in the French Language within the last quarter of a century.

The American édition of the work is rendered still more valuable and interesting by t!ie addition of extracts from the writings of Sismondi and Mignet, modem historians of distinguisheà merit. The vocabulary of new and difficult words and idiomatic phrases is also more conveniently arranged for référence, andconsiderably enlarged ; while the whole bas undergone th.>rough révision, 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 modem writers.

jAst of -luthors. — Alex. Dumas, Alex, de Tocqueville, Alfred deVigney, Alph. Karr, Aug. Thierry, Bignon, Capetigue, De Balzac, De Lamartine, E. Souvestre, Eugène Sne, F. Soalié, Gaizot, Gust. de Beaumont, Jules Janin, Léon Goslan, D'Aubigné, Mérimée, Michelet, Sal vandy, Lavallée, Thiers, Victor Hugo, Villemain, Sismondi, Mignet.