28 JULY 1838, Page 19

Guide to Italian Translation, by P. ROSTER!, is a judicious

at- tempt to familiarize the student with the niceties and refinements of Italian, by means of translating into that language. The plan is to furnish the translator at starting with all the idiomatic ex- pressions he is to use, in notes; and gradually to discontinue them, till at last be has the naked text,—a plan which, towards its close at least, must require either a master or a key.