The graduated course of translation from English into French, ed. by C. Cassal and T. Karcher. Senior course

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Hugues Charles S. Cassal, Théodore Karcher
1876

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Contents

Timour or Tamerlane
12
Extracts from Sir Robert Peels Address to Glasgow Students
13
Niebuhrs Ballad Theory Sir G C Lewis
14
Boston in the Last Century Bancroft
16
Enthusiasm for Frederic II Macaulay 17 Lord Clyde The Times
17
The White the Red and the Black Men Washington Irving
19
The Protestant Martyrs in Paris
20
The French Master Globe
21
The Lionkiller Chambers Series
22
The Broken Flowerpot Bulwer Lytton
23
Xenophons Address to the Army G Grote
25
How to get on in the World De Fraine
31
Grevilles Sketches of his Contemporaries Sir Robert Peel in 1834
32
Wit and Humour Sydney Smith
49
The Siege of Arcot Macaulay
57
Early London The Builder
58
Paris Globe
59
The Apothecary of Newcastle G Colman
60
A Hunt in a Horsepond
61
The Jews Disraeli
62
The Saxons Burke
63
SelfEstimate of Progress A K H B
64
The Children in the Bush The Times
65
The Passage of the Beresina Labaume
66
The Fête of August 15 in Paris Our Own Correspondent The Marchand de Coco Openair Shops Openair Theatres Les Vieux de la Vieille
67
Sorrows of Werther Thackeray
68
Lord Ellenborough and the Bandbox Samuel Rogers
69
A New Way of Paying Salaries Charles Lamb
88
Education Professor Huxley
89
An Aunt A Trollope
90
The Guards A W Kinglake
91
The Browns T Hughes
92
On Slavery Channing
93
The Last of the Incas Prescott
94
Death of Goethe G H Lewis
95
Sydney Smith builds his House S Smith
96
The Man of Many Speeches Pall Mall Gazette
97
David Copperfield C Dickens
98
The Duke of Wellington and Dr Hutton Jackson and Scott 71 Speech of Rolla Sheridan
99
The Antiquary W Scott
100
Curates and Bishops S Smith 73 Diningout in the Country S Smith 74 Dinner
101
A Chinese Dinner Galignani
102
Money and Labour
103
The English Country Gentleman Thackeray
104
Commerce 7 Bright
105
The Quarrel of Squire Bull and his Son Paulding
106
Vanity Fair Thackeray
107
English Dwellings in the Fifteenth Century Hallam
108
The Dog Show at Islington Daily Telegraph
109
The Last Minstrel W Scott 80 Cheerfulness F Jeffrey 81 Patriotism The Saturday Review 82 Reform Mr Gladstone and Mr Lowe Lowe
110
The Last Act Gladstone
112
French Readings by Starlight
113
Storming the Temple of Mexico Prescott
114

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