15 SEPTEMBER 1838, Page 21

Various ingenious methods have been adopted by teachers of the

French language to impress on the memory of the learner the genders of nouns substantive, which are so puzzling to the student ; but the plan of M. DE PORQUET of printing them in different colours, the masculine in blue and the feminine in rc d is the simplest and most efficacious. As the author of the Petit Vocabulatre Francais-Anglais remarks, the memory often recalls, as if by mechanical process, the very page in which the word or sentence recollected was learnt ; and acting on this principle, he employs the aid of the eye to assist the understanding. The words are classed under different heads, to facilitate reference and further aid the memory.