25 FEBRUARY 1865, Page 21

French Reader for the Use of Colleges and Schools By

E. A. Oppen, Professor of Modern Languages at Haileybury College. (Macmillan and Co.)—The extracts are selected almost entirely from modern writers and the distinctive feature of this reader is its notes, which are almost exclusively etymological. Mr. Oppen complains of the extreme faulti- ness of even the larger French dictionaries in this respect.