24 SEPTEMBER 1898, Page 25

The Practical French Grammar and Conversation for Self - Tuition. By A.

Garnould, B.-le-Sc., and W. G. Isbister, RA. Lond. (Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons.)—The authors of this work certainly deserve all the praise due to courage. Their attempt to reproduce the sound of French words by means of English spelling is irre- sistibly fanny. It may safely be said that the pronunciation Likely to be acquired by the help of this volume would resemble broad Somersetshire quite as much as French. Apart from this, however, we have nothing but praise for the grammar, which has been very carefully compiled.