OLLENDORFF.

New Method of Learning to Read, Write, and

Speak the Italian Language. With Additions and Corrections, by FELIX
FORESTI. 12mo. $1 50.

A KEY TO THE EXERCISES, in a separate volume. Price 75 cents.

"At no period have we had facilities for acquiring a knowledge equal to those we now have, by means of Ollendorff's method. Indeed, no set of books has ever appeared, better adapted for the object they have in view than are his; and we hail with peculiar pleasure the appearance of the above-mentioned work, which puts it into the power of any one to make himself master of that beautiful language, the Italian, in the course of a few months.

"We have no doubt it will find its way quickly into our schools and colleges."National

"The system of learning and teaching the living languages by Ollendorff, is so superior to all other modes, that in England and on the continent of Europe, scarcely any other is in use, in well-directed Academies and other Institutions of learning. To those who feel disposed to cultivate an acquaintance with Italian literature, this work will prove invaluable, abridging, by an immense deal, the period commonly employed In studying the language."

PROF. E. F. FORESTL

Crestomazia Italiana:

A Collection of Selected Picces in Italian Prose. Designed as a Class Reading-Book for Beginners in the Study of the Italian Language. 12mo. $1.

"The ITALIAN READER, compiled by Mr. Foresti, is designed to follow the study of Ollendorff's Italian Grammar, on which work many correct judges have pronounced that no important improvement can well be made. In making selections for the book before us, Mr. Foresti has preferred modern Italian writers to the old school of novel. ists, historians, and poets. In this he has done a good thing.

"The selections in the Italian Reader are from popular authors, such as Botta, Manzoni, Machiavelli, Villani, and others. They are so made as not to constitute mere ex ercises, but contain distinct relations so complete as to gratify the reader and engage his attention while they instruct. This is a marked improvement on that old system which exacted much labor without enlisting the sympathies of the student. The selections from Manzoni, for example, are from the "Promessi Sposi," one of the noblest works of fiction ever issued from the press-a work so popular as to have gone through an inrredible number of editions in Italy, while it has been translated into every language of Europe. There have been, we believe, no less than three distinct English translations made, two of which were done in this country. The Reader contains six extracts from his novel, among which are the beautiful episodes of Father Cristoforo and the Nua of Monza, and a description of the famine and plague of Milan in the year 1630. The account of the plague rivals the celebrated one of Boccacio in his Decameron. The idioms that occur in the selections are explained by a glossary appended to each. The Italian Reader can with confidence be recommended to students in the language as a safe and sure guide. After mastering it, the Italian poets and other classicists may be approached with confidence."-Savannah Republican.

OLLENDORFF

New Method of Learning to Read, Write, and

Speak the Spanish Language. With an Appendix, containing a brief, but comprehensive Recapitulation of the Rules as well as of all the Verbs, both Regular and Irregular, so as to render their use easy and familiar to the most ordinary capacity. Together with Practical Rules for Spanish Pronunciation, and Models of Social and Commercial Cor respondence. The whole designed for Young Learners and Persona who are their own Instructors. By M. VELAZQUEZ and T. SIMONNE, Pro fessors of the Spanish and French Languages. One volume 12mo., of 560 pages. Price $1 50.

"It contains the best rules we have ever yet seen, for learning a living language. From the outset, the elements of the language are communicated, with the grand object of serving for oral effect; to teach how to articulate, to speak, to communicate in Span ish. This is the chief aim of all Ollendorff's elementary works on languages, and constitutes their well deserved claim on the respect of all who are engaged in the business of teaching. In most of the colleges and large seminaries of learning in Europe and America, the system of this profoundly thinking German scholar has displaced all others, so far as the acquirement of language is concerned.

"It leads the student on, by almost imperceptible steps, from the simplest principles to the most recondite and complex combinations of grammatical constructions; and the parts are so arranged, as we maintained before, as to render every thing subservient to that which should be the chief point of view, the great object of ambition, viz., use, speech, conversation. Every part of speech, every simple and compound sentence, is so analyzed, so illustrated by explanatory dialogues, that it is impossible to open the book, at any page, without acquiring some valuable information, capable of advancing the stu dent in his progress as a linguist-a practical, that is, a talking, not a theoretic scholar. We warmly commend it to all our fellow-citizens."-Republic.

"This method of learning SPANISH is even more widely useful, especially in this country, than those which have preceded it, since recent events have rendered a knowledge of Spanish more than usually important to all classes of our people. The editors of the work are widely known as accomplished scholars and distinguished teachers, and the book derives still higher authority from their connection with it. We commend it with great confidence to all who desire to become acquainted with the Castilian tongue." -New-York Courier & Enquirer.

OLLENDORFF'S METHOD FOR SPANIARDS TO
LEARN ENGLISH,

Metodo Para Aprender a Leer, Escriber y

Hablar El Inglés, segun el Sistema de Ollendorff: con un tratado de pronunciacion al principia y un apendice importante al fin, que servo de. Complemento a la obra, por RAMON VALANZUELA Y JUAN DE LA C. CARRENO. 12mo. $2.

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KEY TO THE EXERCISES, in a separate volume, 75 cents.

"This Grammar contains the system of OLLENDORFF applied to the English, for the ase of those with whom the Spanish is the native tongue. The excellence of this system is well known, and the present volume is the first application of it to our language which has been offered to the citizens of Spain, Cuba, Mexico, or South America. It is prepared in a manner highly creditable to its authors, and can scarcely fail of meeting a high appreciation with those who have already begun t encounter the difficulties of our language." Journal of Commerce.

This is a work for the use of Spaniards learning English. The authors have availed themselves of the method of Ollendorff, to present to the learner successively the various inflections, terins, idiams, and other peculiarities of the English language. A treatise on the pronunciation of English accompanies the work, prepared evidently with great care."-Erening Post.

PROF. VELAZQUEZ.

An Easy Introduction to Spanish Conversation:

Containing all that is necessary to make a rapid Progress in it. Partio ularly designed for Persons who have little time to Study, or are their own Instructors. One volume 18mo. (100 pages). 38 cents.

"The author of this little volume has long been favorably known as a teacher of the Spanish language. He has supplied, in this volume, one of the best and most useful books for learners of Spanish we have yet seen. It will prove a very efficient help to conversation in Spanish; and there is much more information in it than the size of the book would lead one to expect."-Commercial Advertiser.

PROF. BUTLER.

The Spanish Teacher and Colloquial Phrase

Book. An Easy and Agreeable Method of Acquiring a Speaking Knowledge of the Spanish Language. A new edition. 1 vol. 18mo. 50 cts. "This is a good book, and well fitted for the purpose for which it is designed. The object of the author (whose preface proves him a sensible man), is to make the language a tongue, a living, speaking tongue to the learner; and the method he adopts for this end, is that of nature. He begins with the simplest elements, the first accents to be met and mastered first, in all speech-and progressively advances, applying all former acquisitions, as he proceeds, until the learner is fully possessed of the key, which will unlock to him the treasures of one of the most perfect languages of modern times. The Amer icans are doers, not recluse speculating scholars; and hence, generally, have neglected the study of languages. Circumstances, however, have forced this language on their attention, as a thing of great practical importance, so that instead of being, as it was a few years since, the most neglected of tongues, it has now become the most eagerly sought after. The Spanish Language is one of great simplicity, and more easily acquired than any other modern tongue. For a beginner, we recommend the little book, the title of which we have copied. It is small, and designed to be carried in the pocket."Journal of Commerce.

PROFESSOR VELAZQUEZ.

A New Spanish Reader.

Consisting of Passages from the most Approved Authors, in Prose and Verse, arranged in Progressive Order; for the use of those who wish to obtain easily a Practical Knowledge of the Castilian Language; with Plain Rules for its Pronunciation, Notes Explanatory of the Idioms and difficult Constructions, and a copious Vocabulary. Being a Sequel to Ollendorff's Method of Learning to Read, Write, and Speak the Spanish Language. One volume 12mo. $1 25.

"This book being particularly intended for the use of beginners, has been prepared with three objects in view; namely, to furnish the learner with pleasing and easy les ons, progressively developing the beauties and difficulties of the Spanish language; secondly, to enrich their minds with select instruction; and thirdly, to form their char acter, by instilling correct principles into their hearts. In order, therefore, to obtain the desired effect, the extracts have been carefully selected from such classic Spanish writers, both ancient and modern, whose style is generally admitted to be a pattern of cleganco, combined with idiomatic purity and sound morality."---Extract from Prefue

SEOANE'S NEUMAN AND BARETTI.—BY VELAZQUEZ,

A Pronouncing Dictionary of the Spanish and

English Languages; composed from the Spanish Dictionaries of the Spanish Academy, Terreros, and Salva, upon the basis of Seoane's Edition of Neuman and Baretti, and from the English Dictionaries of Webster, Worcester, and Walker; with the addition of more thay Eight Thousand New Words, Idioms, and Familiar Phrases, the Irreg ularities of all the Verbs, and a Grammatical Synopsis of both Langua ges. By MARIANO VELAZQUEZ DE LA CADENA, Professor of the Spanish Language and Literature in Columbia College, N. Y., &c., &c. In Two Parts-I. Spanish-English. II. English-Spanish. One volume imp. 8vo., of about 1400 pages. Strongly and neatly bound, price $5.

The great desideratum of an accurate, comprehensive, and well-digested Dictionary of the Spanish and English languages is now first realized in this work by Professor Velazquez. The value of Neuman and Baretti's Dictionary was greatly enhanced in the edition by Dr. Seoane; but it needed still greater improvements than Seoane has given it, and the lapse of twenty years has made its deficiencies painfully apparent. Professo Velazquez has availed himself of all the valuable material accumulated by his predeces sors. He has also enriched his pages from the latest edition of the Dictionary of the Academy-published subsequently to Seoane's revision-and from the great work of Cabrera, Terreros, and the indefatigable Salvá. Many familiar words not found in the Dictionaries, but constantly in use in Cuba, in Mexico, and in South America, are now first given, as well as a long catalogue of mercantile terms, collected from reliable sources. To these Professor Velazquez has added the many words and phrases, the much-needed corrections, and the thorough revision suggested by his long experience as a teacher of his mother tongue. Besides these improvements in the Vocabulary, the work is now made a Pronouncing Dictionary. The pronunciation of every Spanish word is given in a manner which will enable an English scholar to pronounce them at sight. The method of pronouncing English words in this Dictionary merits the particular attention of every une whose mother tongue is the Castilian. It is based upon the method so much ad mired and recommended by the learned Don Lorenzo Hervas, in his "Catálogo de las Lenguas" namely, by giving to every elementary sound in the language a correspond ing alphabetical character, and by restricting each of these characters to one single Sound. By the help of this method, so superior to notation with figured vowels, no per son willing to devote half an hour to the dozen new alphabetic characters need be at s loss to pronounce correctly every English word in the Dictionary. The new and im proved orthography sanctioned by the latest edition of the Dictionary of the Academy-now universally adopted by the press-is here given for the first time in a Spanish and English Dictionary. Another new and most useful feature of the work is an "Outline Grammar of the Spanish Language," and a "Grammatical Synopsis of the English Lan age," each containing a grammar in miniature, and all the irregular verbs of both languages. The volume is thus rendered complete, and made to answer all the purposes of a grammar and a Dictionary.

Nearly ready, in one volume 12mo.,

AN ABRIDGMENT OF THE ABOVE.

This Abridgment is a miniature copy of the great octavo work by Professor Velaz quez, and contains all its most important additions and improvements. Expurgated of the antiquated orthography, and the manifold errors and absurdities so common in Spanish and English Abridgments, it is intended as a reliable work of reference for business men, and for all the ordinary uses of a Dictionary. The scholar who wishes to become well acquainted with the Spanish and English classics, will hardly be satisfied with any thing less than the octavo edition; but as a pocket companion for beginners, for travellers, or for the use of those who consult a dictionary for practical purposes, this sbridgment will be found superior to any other work yet published.

PROF. ASHEL C. KENDRICK.

Greek Ollendorff;

Being a Progressive Exhibition of the Principles of the Greek Grammar. Designed for beginners in Greek, and as a Book of Exercises for Acad emies and Colleges. 12mo. $1.

Its sim

"Among the many elementary books published for the use of schools, we have not met with one that has pleased us as much as Professor Kendrick's Greek Ollendorff It seems exactly fitted for the purpose intended, viz., by instilling into the minds of the Joung the more simple elementary principles of the language, thus to prepare them for more extensive and familiar acquaintance with the ancient Greek classics. plicity is perfectly delightful. The unfamiliar character of the letters, and the long Course of study required to give a boy even a very imperfect knowledge of the Gram mar, have deterred many a beginner from prosecuting the study of Greek, who, with the attractive volume before us, would have taken hold of it at once, and mastered an ts difficulties. This is not only the best possible book to be put into the hands of boys but it seems to us, that any person more advanced in years, and wishing to acquir some knowledge of Greek, even without a teacher, may, by the aid of this volume, a complish his object.

"The sounds of the letters and diphthongs, and the use of the breathings and accents are so briefly, yet so familiarly explained, that, although the author recommends that thi ortion of the work should be deferred by the younger pupils to a second, or a third pe rusal, yet such a recommendation seems to us to be hardly necessary.

"A knowledge of the Greek Grammar has generally been considered as an indispen sable qualification of the pupil before he begins to read Greek. The doing away with the necessity of this at the beginning, is very encouraging to the learner, while at the same time it gives the author an opportunity to introduce gradually, and almost imper ceptibly, sufficient grammar to illustrate the examples as they occur; and then, by re peating these examples with variations almost fanamerable, the principle is indelibly impressed upon the mind.

In the older Greek books intended for schools, the examples given have been fauity from their involving too many principles at the beginning. The mind of the pupil can not comprehend so many things at once; he gets confused, and becomes, after a while, discouraged. Whereas, in the Greek Ollendorff of Professor Kendrick, every principle of the Grammar is introduced by degrees, and only when it is wanted for application. It teaches rules by examples, rather than examples by rules.

"Another advantage of this volume over the older school books of the kind, is the examples of double translation, introduced at the very beginning, and made a part et the regular daily exercise.

"The book is well printed in good type, and on gold paper, for which the Appleton deserve due credit.

"We conclude by recommending this work to the favorable attention of teachers.-N. Y. Recorder.

PROF. JAMES R. BOISE.

Exercises in Greek Prose Composition.

Adapted to the First Book of Xenophon's Anabasis. One volume 12mo. Price 75 cents.

For the convenience of the learner, an English-Greek Vocabulary, a Catalogus of the Irregular Verbs, and an Index to the principal Grammatical Notes, have been appended.

"A school-book of the highest order, containing a carefully arranged series of exer cises derived from the first book of Xenophon's Anabasis (which is appended entire), en English and Greek Vocabulary, and a list of the principal modifications of irregular verbs. We regard it as one peculiar excellence of this book, that it presupposes both the diligent scholar and the painstaking teacher; in other hands it would be not only useless, but unusable. We like it also, because, instead of aiming to give the pupil practice in a variety of styles, it places before him but a single model of Greek composition, and that the very author who combines in the greatest degree purity of lan guage and idiom, with a simplicity that both invites and rewards imitation."Christian Register.