English and French Exercises for Advanced Pupils. By C. A.
Chardenal, B.A., of the University of France. Second Edition. (Glasgow : D. Roberteon, 1863).—Mr. Chardenal's system of teaching French, unlike that of many modern professors, is based upon the sound and thorough comprehension of the rules of language. He does not profess to teach French in a fortnight, or, may be, in a week, but tells his pupils at the outset that the knowledge of French, like any other knowledge worth acquiring, can only be got at by hard and persevering labour, extended over a considerable space of time. Mr. Chardenal wants his pupils to
work not only by day, but by night, if possible. The student is advised to "take every morning two or three verbs and as many sentences, and turn them mentally in every possible way during the day, or at night in bed, before sleeping." . The system, if it should be objected to in Bel- gravian drawing-rooms, is, we are sure, just the thing for the big-brained people of Edinburgh and Glasgow.
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