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THE PRACTICAL FRENCH TEACHER or 80
Method Of Leaning to Read. Write sad speAA ~ ~
French Language BY Prof EoEsAN FiNNKf' = y
Hartford. Robins & smith. For sale y hnhNhs
4 Ncx-York Price Al.

pages-nae ceFOte1 many yt1Fr 70 INC sts-J 49,
ing Of the French, and from the examination We hS'e
been able 70 make think !; the best work we nave
met with Tor learning the Language. The Plan Il KID
bred TO that OF OLLESDoREs bat carried out me a.
thor thinks IN il. applications the Grammatical con
struc;ion Of the language much more systensuoAH'
aud perfectly He proceeds il appears to US upon TIE
true and only philosophic principle that OF MAKING e
student familiar first with the Of things or me
use Of the noun and the qualifying psrt Of sPeech-ia
cr,ele adj,etre and yroaoVn-then, commencing win
the Simplest form Of the verb be proceeds through az
it, forms moods and irregularities bringing in ali other
parts Of speech In order In series Of exercises N
writing French all he has embodied thoroughly the
s.ar Of the language Rules FOR the Of the parts
Of speech sre interpreted throughout; these exercises
and the exceptions TO the general rule noted IN smaller
type he ha. explained and Illustrated the peculiar
tie. Of the arfck and roR0aH also the irregularities OF
the subunctiye mood and the simple perfect The past
lenses are given In sentences singy-then two al tine
then several IN the sentence Tie idioms OF
the language are gwen separately with exercises on
each The work comprises in 81 about one hundred
and forty lessons forming series Of progressive con
versstons sud exercises for making English into French
in which the basis slssOH Of each lesson first given
in corresponding French snd English so ihs while The
pupil is learning speak and write, he has here an en-
tire system Of Grammar which Is learned Al the same
time At the close Of the book some forty fifty pages
given in which the parts Of speech are esssed in
their natural order snd the pages referred TO- where
each oassed has been illustrated the body Of the work
Following this few commercial exercises valus
be 10 mercantile houses in this country who have bu
siness where the French il chiefly used With the 3D.
dton Of table Of verbs the numeral adjective and
index Olendorf American edition IS nearly reprint
Of tie foreign work While the method Of Prot Pin
ney the same he has he thinks supplied radical De
fects in both this work and IN Manescas which render
il difficult for the learner in their to become thor
oush and accurate in the language, and some Of the
most important Of which could be remedied with
out an almost entire reproduction Of the works.
In these days Of inquiry into the best methods Of
,esching-ihe true method Of developing the young
mind and Of storing 1t with knowledge the use Of the
best school books becomes matter OF importance and
we commend this book the attention Of teachers and
those who are learning desire TO learn the French
language.
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We have here the first volume OF tins admirable
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Social HrsroRY or GREAT BRITAIN during the Rel gns
of the stuarts beginning with the Seventeenth Cen
tury being the period of Settling these United
States. by William Goodman. vols On one) l2mO
Kew.York William II. Graham Tribune Buildings.
The design Of the author OF this book is to give
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ton Of the people OF the Mother Country at the period
Of the settling Of the American colonies Mr Goodman
has cleaned little Of everything from almost every
author so that his book rather collection Of quots
tons from poetic and desuliory works than historic
statistical one Although made up Ao5s podge
connected matter Il still contains much that is interest
ing and useful and the reader who will patiently wade
through the volumes viii at least fnd variety and
good deal Of general knowledge
III lHL AMkElthN hfAihW Tor cDfudfl
makes is appearance to day The table Of contents
will be found in our advertising department The open.
ing article on the Military Conduct OF the War exhib
its the weakness and folly Of the Administration 10 their
true ght the time that it does ample justice
Gen Taylor and his brave army Hudson's Review OF
Festus is concluded That is in some respects an
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style 1t can commend itself only to bitter psrtissns
who have no sympathy with the philsnthropc spirit Of
the age The article on the Life Of Gen. Scott will at
tract general notice An elaborate article Music in
New York will be read with svdity by all who in.
terested in is subject As whole think this mum
Der decidedly good one. PrehSed to it is an en-
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chief new paper with this title and motto has been
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of the new Medical College there which is stated in
this t rs, season has less than ninety while the old
regular institution has only twelve fourteen students
The reason assigned for establishing this Journal IS that
the political and commercial papers there could not be
made 10 believe there more than one Medical school
in the city" The fourth number contains sn extrsor
binary and powerful article by the editor upon Phre
noloy.
- 90 TIE LADIES WREATH' for February
contains many good original articles from the pens
of Mrs MARTYN, Rev. :. D. BuRcHAED, Mrs. Nc
DONALD. and others. Evelyn Perciva, by Mrs Mar
tyn IL continued poem by Mrs. osGooD Is given
sud engrsvings Afforded as usual One Is very
good porrsure steel OF Navy Island in the Niagar'
River-the other is Lithogrsphic flower Terms y
per yesr-published al l62 Nssssu-st
- THE LIVES OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBu:
AND AAEAous VEsPUcIus have been published in one
volume by the Hsrpers forming very convenient and
useful work for the young Portraits Of the two riys
are given also Glossary Of the peculiar words used
The book will greatly interest the rising generation
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