THINGAR ON THE GENDERS OF FRENCH NOUNS.
THE last, and perhaps never-conquered obstacle to the perfect speaking or writing of French, is that of gender. We believe no Englishman even affects to be invariably certain of the genders of French nouns, though many attain to fluency, and some to idio- matic ease and elegance of diction. Mr. THINGAR, of Nor- wich, who has spent a long and laborious life in the business of tuition, has just published a little book, in which this ob- stacle is, as far as its nature will admit, encountered and over- come. His Systematic Arrangement is so constructed, that any student who will devote a few hours of earnest attention, and can trust his memory, will have possessed himself of the great land- marks by which to guide himself; and less retentive memories !hay, at all events, resort to this small volume as a sure and ready friend in all cases of doubt.
We have understood that Mr. THINGAR has devoted much of the scanty hours of leisure his laborious occupation has left him, to the difficult task of writing a complete and philosophical French Grammar. Those only who have had the advantage of profiting by that gentleman's instructions, can know how competent he is to such a work ; or how widely his manner of teaching differs from the senseless, illogical, and parrot-like forms prevailing in most of our schools, even those pretending to the highest learning. We sin- cerely hope Mr. THINGAR will leave the results of his great study and long experience embodied in his Grammar ; which we are convinced will be a work of remarkable interest and merit.
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