HALF-HOURS OF FRENCH TRANSLATION

CLTRICTS FBOM THE BEST ElTOIISH ATTIfiOBS TO BE BEHBEBSB

IBTO FBENCH;

Ain> ALSO PASSAGES TRANSLATED PROM CONTBMPOBABY PBENOH WBITEBS TO BB BB-TRANSLATED. '

ÂRRANGED PROGRESSIVELY WITH IDIOMA TIC NOTES.

By AX.PHO»rSS MABXBTTE, M.A.,

FtofeuoT and ExcmwMir qftk» FfûmA Langtiagt and Lti&raiÊÊirô at Kdig'ê CoUtjf9f

London;

LaU Fyench TeacAer to the ChUdren <ifS.R,M. thé Prince of WaUt, Netw Edltloxi. 1 vol., small Sro, 892 paves. Oloth» prloa 4s. 6<1*

''Frofessor Mariette is a teacher without dalness, who adds to a dose intîmacy with the literature of his own ootixitry the relish of a well-read Englishman for Englîsh books. The first part of his ezoellent little volume, entitled Half'houn of TVanslaiion^ is a welldioeen séries of eztracts from good Engljah writers, rery Yarious in style, and in the form of idiom employed. Now it is the prose of Macaulay, now the prose of Charles Lamb that yields an extract for translation into Frenoh ; this passage is from Dr. Johnson» that from Mr. Dickens. The range of sélection is, in ffiot, of«r the whole of the wide field of English prose, between the essays of Lord Bacon and those of contemporary joumaliats. Tha choice of each extraot has been obyiously founded not npon its merits more than its convertibility into French. Every passage may be so translated that a good ^(randation shall seem to oontain not the words only but the thoughts also, and some one~ of the. moods of a Frenchmaa. In foot-notes oarefally appended to each passage, the labour of a pupil is lightened, or the work of self-education is assisted — by^ the supply of fragments; of translation where the two languages differ in idiom. In the second part( of the book, Professer Mariette has taken the trouble to transla:te from' contemporary French authors choice illustrations of the French of to-day, and so to translate them that they may be by a skilful hand £&ithfuUy retnmed to France. Hère again notes help the student to secure a mastery over French idiom, but the help becomes less fréquent as the volume draws towards a close« In the extracts from French writers there is the same regard paid to rariety of tone, and the student who throughout the first paùrt of aie book is speaking the thoughts of his own land in the language of a neîghbour, in the second part of Uie book, when he does not mistransbte, is aotually writing Frenoh thoughts in ihâ Frenchmaa^s way*'*-* examiner,

" A yery nse£al school-book for students of Frenoh . • . Ind^endently o/its educational uses, this is really a most amusing book, and one.OTOf whidi an idler might be tempted to dawdle lor a whda UMniag."-^ LUeraty GMette»

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BOULIER, A., Fellow Univ. Gaixk^

laté Frenck Jtatter at ihe Charierhoiue,

Profiaor qfFrench Languag$ and LUenUure in Bedford Collège^ Londom,

and AutdaU Examiner in ihe (Tniversiiy o/London,