A New Conversation Book. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. Is. 6d.
not.)
very handy little volume of phrases in four languages, English, French, Dutch-Flemish, and Esperanto. As the manual is partly Intended to help in the growth of the last-named language, we think the Esperantists might have permitted themselves to publish their grammar. It is obvious that it was unnecessary, as well as impossible, to print the other three grammars; but the Esperanto, consisting as it does of only sixteen rules, without any exceptions, would have taken up little room, and would have been a most useful recommendation to the study of the language. As it is, we must confess that it does not do itself justice. To the person knowing nothing of it, it appears, instead of the extremely simple matter that it is, yet one more of those perplexing and fearsome foreign tongues which are the terror of most English people.
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