28 FEBRUARY 1835, Page 20

flee French Language its Own Teacher, by RErra ALIVA, author

of the "Anti-Spelling Book," is a very able work—new, experimental, but not quackish. The novelty is chiefly limited to the writer's simple mode of teaching pronunciation, giving the pupil all the elementary sounds, and nothing but the elementary sounds, but which the writer truly says can only be acquired with the aid of a master. The merit of the mode for learning the language is limited to the simple and perspicuous manner in which the progressive lessons are selected and arranged; for the principle of M. ALIVA'S method is as old as MILTON at least, and consists in a judicious combination of literal translation with grammatical study.