30 APRIL 1864, Page 23

Instantaneous French Exercises. By Achille Albias, LL.B. Paris. (Longman and

(Jo.)—Intended as a companion to the author's "How to Speak French," and called "Instantaneous" because if you will read page 21 of that work you can immediately write "easily and perfectly" exercise 21 in this. We confess to being a little sceptical with reference to these royal roads to foreign tongues, but we do not doubt this to be a useful exercise-book.