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Xavier De Maistre : Voyage Autour De Ma Chambro. With

Biographical Notice, Notes, and Vocabulary by G. Euggtne Fasnacht. (Macmillan and Co.)—Our thanks are due to M. Fasnacht for this new edition of Xavier de Maistre's charming jeu......

Causeries Familieres. By Sarah Christine Boyd. (angus And...

most excellent and practical little volume, evidently the work of a trained teacher. It combinn admirably, and in an entertaining form, the advantages of th conversational with......

The Age Of Sichelieu. By A. Jameson Smith, M.a. (a.

and C. Black.)—The idea of grouping a collection of passages from French historical writers round one central figure has much to recommend it, combining, as it does, many of the......

Scenes Of Child - Life, In Colloquial French. By Mrs. G....

(Macmillan and Co.) —Mrs. Frazer tells us that she has written this little book "with the twofold object of teaching English children my native tongue, and of amusing them." We......

Zwischen Den Schlachten. Von Otto Elster. Adapted And...

L. Hirsch, Ph.D. (Macmillan and Co.)—An abridged edition of Elstees stirring novel of the Franco - German War. It is one of a series of school editions of well-known German......

Nouvelles Contemporaines. With Notes And Biographical

Sketches by .J. Duhamel, (Rivingtons.)—A collection of stories by eminent French writers. The tales, some of which are charming, are arranged with great judgment and taste, each......

Sacs Et Parchemins. Par Jules Sandeau. Adapted And Edited By

Eugene Pelissier. (Macmillan and Co.)—Sacs et Parehemins. Edited by B. Minssen. (Rivingtons.)—The first of these works is an abridged edition of Sandeau's witty and amusing......

Sappho : Trauerspiei. Von Franz Grillparzer. Edited By...

M.A. (Macmillan and Co.)—Grillparzer is a poet little known in this country, and this new edition of his great tragedy will be acceptable to all students of German litera- ture.......

The Practical French Grammar And Conversation For Self -...

Garnould, B.-le-Sc., and W. G. Isbister, RA. Lond. (Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons.)—The authors of this work certainly deserve all the praise due to courage. Their attempt to......