Coppée, F. Pour la Couronne

Causeries parisiennes. Practical Conversations, introducing modem s, d. Colloquial Phrases and numerous Idiomatic Expressions in constant Use, etc., etc. A useful manual for Students, and others, with English renderings of the more difficult Passages and an Index of 1200 Gallicisms. Edited by A. Peschier, Doctor of Philosophy^ and Professor of French and English Literature ai the Royal University of Tubingen, 132 pages. Small 8vo. Paper Cover

An Educator ofposition and long experience regards this little work as unique of its kind, and of exceptional value as a supplementary manual for students df French in the higher classes of schools, it being quite unlike the cut and dried sentences and phrases usually found in the so-called Conversation and Dialogue Books.

Charlin's Anglo-French Course. Constant speaking, combined with extreme fluency, adapted to give a Systematic Mastery of the Accidence, Syntax, Vocabulary, and Idioms mostly required for Colloquial Purposes : —

First Part (First Steps). 32 pages. Crown 8vo. Paper Cover Second Part (indudmg the First Part) English Text. 140 pages. Crown 8va Cloth limp ..........

French Text. 140 pages. Crown 8vo. Boards, Cloth back

Third Part (with Special Reference to Examination Requirements). English CI thb'Tk* ^'^'' ^ opposite pages. 320 pages. Crown 8va Boards,

French Idioms.

First Steps in French Idioms. An Alphabetical List of Idioms, with s. éU Notes, Examination Papers, and One Thousand English Phrases to be turned into Idiomatic French, by H. BuÉ, B. es L., Principal French Master^ Christ's HospitcU^ London, 192 pages. Cloth . I 6

' Will be found extremely useftil for students who wish to become acquainted with colloquial French. The words are arranged in alphabetical order, and the principal idiomatic phrases in which they occur are given, together with an English version. Excellent notes illustrate the origin of the various locutions, and a selection of one thousand sentences serves the purpose of examination X,v&x&.* —School Board Ckroniclt.

Key to First Steps in French Idioms and to H. Bui's < First

and Second French Books.' In One Volume. Cloth . .26

Class Book of ComparatiTe Idioms, containing 1800 Idiomatic Sentences, etc., in 3 Parts (English, French, German): —

Ens^lish Part, by J. BuÉ, Hon M.A. (Oxon.), and W. Collstt

Sandaks. 150 pages. Crown 8vo. Cloth . . .20

French Part, by J. BuÉ, M.A., etc. 150 pp. Crown 8vo. Qoth 2 o German Part, by Prof. R. Lbnnhbim and Dr. Wehb, First

German Master^Duimich College, 150 pages. Crown 8vo. Cloth 2 o 'The "Class Book of Comparative Idioms" is intended to supersede the ovdinary dialogues which are so extensively used in schools at the present day. Particular care has been taken to exclude obsolete, nausual, or slang expresâons.' —StUurday Review,

Lessons in French Syntax, adapted to Conversation. Exercises and Examination Papers on Grammar, Pronunciation Tests, Exercises on Irregular and Defective Verbs and Idioms, the Subjunctive Mood, etc , by F. JULIBN, Officier d* Académie; French Master ^ Kir^ EdwaréPs School^ Five Ways^ Birmingham, 256 pages. Crown 8vo. Cloth . 2 6

In these * Lessons ' the Author's aim has been to eliminate from the ordinary Grammar that which is not absolutely essential for the students of * Grammar Schools '; to lay more stress on the Irregular Vbrbs, the Past Participles, and to explain and practice at length, the use of the Subjunctive Mood, so difficult to Englishmen. These * Lessons ' contain all that is required for the Oxford and Cambridge Local Examinations and the Preliminary Examinations of the Universities, the matter contained in the ordinary Grammars being generally far too cumbersome for candidates.

French and Eng^lish Idioms and Proverbs, by A. Mariette, Examiner to the Society cf Arts, etc, : —

Vol. I. French Idioms (A — Fuyant). 230 pages. Crown 8vo.

Cloth 36

„ II. French Idioms (Gager — Zizanie). 230 pages. Crown 8vo. Cloth . , . . . . .36

„ III. English Idioms with French Equivalents, etc. 230 p)ages. Crown 8vo. Cloth . . . . .36

*An admirable book. The idioms are collected in the alphabetical order of their leadin^^ word in English, so that the work is really a dictionary of idioms. The book is instrucdve, as few books are, in the niceties of French conversation and composition.' — Scottman,

' Produced bjr the pen of so able and accomplished an authority as M. Mariette, the pages of this book are replete with examples arranged under an alphabetical series of words. The author has evidently been at greatpains to make his work not only easy for reference but complete in every detail. How far he has succeeded can only be estimated by a careful perusal of the book as a whole. After looking

over its pages, we are convinced that little has been omitted, and that everything essential has been included.' — Teachtn* Aid.

French Readers in t^se and Verse^