books,' of translating almost every word, and leaving the young scholar nothing to do but to put the feminine form of a noun or adjective, or a given tense of a verb. With such an easy-going system nobody can be surprised that a student never learns to translate into accurate French. We greatly prefer a vocabulary printed at the end of the volume, and which only contains the translation or explanation of idiomatic expressions and sentences. For the ordinary words the pupil must resort to his dictionary, which he will thus learn how to use-by no means such an easy matter as is commonly thought. This Junior Course' will, we earnestly hope, fill up a gap in French classes, for we are well aware that such a work has long been a desideratum with many teachers. All the materials contained in it, and in the 'Senior Course,' which will shortly follow, have been used by us, and thus we can answer for their fitness. October, 1875 CH. C. TH. K. 81. Learned Men and Political Events 82. The Duke of Wellington and the Quaker 85. Crowned Heads and Literary Culture. 86. The Government of Elizabeth |