AN INTRODUCTION TO FRENCH AUTHORS

By ANTOINE CHARLIN,

Laté French Master ai the Presbyterian Ladieà' Collège^ Metbounu,

Second XSdition. Piioe Ib.

It ia a oonimon praotice amone students who translate a French author to vrite ont with their English équivalents tue passages that could not hâve been readily and oiOrrectly understood without the help of either a dictionary or a translation. Thosa notes are then looked over again and again until a more lasting impression has been Icft thon would be the case if eqnal attention were given to ail the parts of the text. The présent work may be considered a systematically-arranged oollection of thosa obstacles.

The authOT*8nnoonimon siteoess, as testifiedin the public examinations of his pupils, warrants him in affirming that candidates who can translate (not merely glance over) the présent test, will not meet with more than two or three obstacles in kû.^ pièce oi modem French that can be given in examinations.