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TI14 Alphonse Daudet Reading Book. By Jetta S. Wolff. (E.

Arnold. is. 6d.)—This is the sixth of Miss Wolff's admirable

French reading-books. It marks, we need hardly say, a step upward in the learner's progress. " England," said Daudet himself, "is the country into which it has taken me longest to make my way." There are reasons for that ; he is often difficult for an English child. But Miss Wolff always gives help where it is needed. Altogether, we have here a most pleasing and useful little volume, which Miss Wolff has done well to add to those simple and amusing books in which she introduces English pupils to French as it is really spoken to-day.