Excerpt from Half-Hours of French Translation: Or Extracts From the Best English Authors, to Be Rendered Into French; And Also Passages Translated From Contemporary French Writers to Be Re-Translated, Arranged Be With Idiomatic Notes The success of this Work has exceeded my most sanguine expectations. Nine large editions, rapidly disposed of, have fairly established the claim of these H alf - hours to be considered a popular manual of the English student in his arduous task of mastering the principal difficulties and niceties of French composition. After all, let the French classics be brought out in this country in ever so many tempting forms, With ever so efiective a display, under some pretext or other, of second-hand philological lore, Which is, I fear, sadly wasted upon the great mass of school-boys - What the English learner wants is not simply to read French, but to write it out of materials in his own language, and eventually out of his own head. Translating French into English is, too often, mere guesswork, unsatisfactory alike in its character as regards that cardinal object of all study - mental discipline, and in its practical results as regards proficiency in the language and a' long experience has satisfied me that English pupils can never learn thoroughly how to write French except through a steady and fairly graduated course of trans lation from English into F ranch. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.