Young students of French in England during the last few
years have had much cause for gratitude to Miss Jetta S. Wolff for her admirable little books of dialogue (Les Francais en Voyage, Les Francais en Menage, &c.). She has now added to the series Lee Francais en Guerre (Edward Arnold, is. 6d.), which should be even more popular than its predecessors. In a number of short chapters she describes, with a wealth of anecdote and, above all, of conversation, the course of events and the current of feeling in Paris during the earlier months . of the war. Miss Wolff has a gift for being entertaining, and in these pages she is sometimes moving as well; so that the reader is likely to become absorbed, and hardly to notice that he is at the same time familiarizing himself with innumerable idioms of modern colloquial French.
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