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Les Francais d'Aujourd'hui (Edward Arnold, ls. 611, net) is another

of Miss Jetta S. Wolff's charming books of French dialogue. We are given the narrative of a visit of French children to Paris. There they see the sights, and the essential information about the sights is ekilf ally embedded in the dialogue. Here is French exactly as one hears French families talking it

among themselves. We are tempted to say that anyone who really mastered the contents of this book would "know French" for all practical social purposes, and we cannot imagine an easier or pleasanter way of arriving at that result.