LANGUE FRANÇAISE

Mis en Ordre Progressif, et Annotés, pour en faciliter L'Intelligence. Par A. G. COLLOT,

Professeur de Langues et de Littérature. One Volume, l2mo, of 520 pages. Price $1.

Courier and Enquirer.

" We hâve examined this book with great interest, and can confidently recommend ittostudents and teachers of the French language, as better adapted to the pnrpuses of a reading-book than any other with which we are acquainted. It is made up of fourteen complète dramas, taken from the works of the best and purest writers, among which aie the great names of Corneille, Racine, Molière, and Piron. The pièces are systematically arranged in progressive order, and the idiomatical difficultés of the language are fully and clearly explained in the notes. To those who are desirous of speaking French this bouk 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 its most e-minent dramatists, this volume wili supply the place of voluminous collections not easy to be obtained. Its typographical accuracy and appearance bas seldom been equalled in any French book that bas heretofore issued from the press of this country."

Christian Examiner.

" This book is matie up of pièces of progressive difliculty, as exercises in the study of French. We hâve first a Proverb or two in the simplest style, with foot-notes cxplanatory of idiomatic phrases ; then a couple of Berquin's pièces, intended for learners ; then some haf dozen of Scribe's popular dramas, full of action, and exhibiting many peculiaritiesof French manners and language ; Moliere's Misanthrope ; Voltaire's Mérope ; Racine's Athalie ; and, la>tly, the Cinna of Corneille — ail entire; which is, certainly, an improvement on ail other French reading-b ;oks, the fragmentai y style of which has ofteu vexed us. The whole appearsto us admirably adapted for its purpose."

Tribune.

" This work is intended as a reading-book for students of the French language ; and for two very important reasons, we consider it better adapted to its purpose, and JikeJy to be of far greater utility, than any other that has hitherto been compiled. First, the language is easy, the constructions are simple, and the whole is in the form of dialogue, the only kind of reading that can affbrd the scholar any efficient aid in speaking French. Secondly, the engrossing interest of the most élégant and vivacious drama now in existence is brought to the aid of the student in enabling him to endure with patience the labour necessary to perform his task. There is little fear that any one who has read twenty pages of this book will ever lay it down until he has mastered its entire contents. Professor Collot has been remarkably successful in his sélection, and the pièces are in every respect unexceptionable, and well adapted to varieties of taste. The humour of Molière, the beautiful comédies of Scribe and Berquin, and the tragic grandeur and pathos of a Corneille, a Racine, and a Voltaire,. need no recommendation."

Protestant Churchman.

•* This new French reader isprecisely the kind of book which an intelligent teacher of the language will désire to place in the hands of his advanced pupils. At least sueh is our opinion. The sélections are made with great j udgment, and consist not of mère disjointed fragments, but of entire works of the best dramatic authors, in sufEcient variety, ' from grave to gay, from lively to severe.' While they offer peculiar facilities for acquiring the language, by a free exhibition ot ail its peculiarities, their effect upon the literary taste of the student must be no less salutary."

Evening Mirror.

" The dramatic pièces embraoed in this volume are ail complète, and they comprise some of the best and most unexceptionbale performances of Berquin, Scribe, Piron, Molière, Voltaire, Racine, and Corneille, arranged so that the learner takes up rlrst those which présent the fewest .lifficulties, and then advances to the higher departments of dramatic writing. The dramatic nortion of French literature is generally considered its best. Such a book as this, therefore, il necessary for every student who v/ishes to become acquainted with the master-pieces of th» French writers."

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