17 JANUARY 1835, Page 19

The French Reader's Guide, by M. pr.: LA CLAVERIE, is

a mo- derate-sized selection of miscellaneous pieces both in prose and verse, well adapted for young students of the French language, fin whose use it has been compiled. The extracts are various in the subjects, and generally brief; they are taken from authors both old and modern : those we have read are easy and interest- ing. An appendix of notes has been added, explanatory of' the more difficult passages in the text, which are printed in Italics, with a reference : these helps are for the most part confined to idiomatic expressions, which are translated correctly, though without much of spirit or elegance.