The chief feature of BUQUET'S Guide to the Pronunciation of
the French Language, is, in a measure, mechanical. The first lessons consist of objects whose names the pupil is to be taught to Pronounce, echoing the final syllable, as la lane, une: a variety of LIexercises on the sounds of the language, vowel, consonant, diphthongal, and nasal, with some reading lessons follow. Without the assistance of a master, the plan is of little use, we imagine. With it, the pupil who has thoroughly gone through the Guide will be a perfect theoretical master of French pronunciation, but we suspect he might have better applied his time. Study and reading will enable a person to understand and write a language, it the best and easiest, perhaps the only way to learn its prouttnelation. is by discourse. ltEin's Atlas of Modern Geography contains maps of the world, its four quarters, the three kingdoms of the British Empire, with France, Germany, and Italy. The work is neatly got np; the maps are clearly, indeed beautifully engraved ; and an index is added of every place laid down in the maps, with its latitude and longitude. The object of the work is to facilitate the study of geography in elementary schools; but we should think it more useful as a book of reference than as a book of instruction. It marks, clearly enough, the boundaries of countries; but the sites of places are of necessity only indicated ; iii short, in details it rather reminds than teaches.
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