A first scientific French reader

Ibeatb's flDofcent Xanouage Séries A FIRST SCIENTIFIC FRENCH READER L. BOWENB. Professor of Romance Languages in the Ohio State University \*BOSTON, U.S.A. * D. C. HEATH & CO., PUBLISHERS 1909 Copyright, 1902, Heath & Co.By D. C. PREFACE is intended to adapt itself to the needs ofThis Reader which begin French in our technical schools andclasses in scientific courses of our universities, as also to thethe early work of fitting schools. The purpose has been to material sufficient in scope and variety to pré-provide for reading scientific French. While of-pare students graded sélections that afford interest-fering a séries of on variety of sciences, the endeavoring information a choose mainly topics whose subjecthas been made to established and will not be invalidated bymatter is well the near future.the developments of utilized in the sélection of material,Among the works made of the little volume by Camillemention may be entitled Qu'est-ce que le ciel? from whichFlammarion dealing with astronomy (numbers XL,the three pièces with slight omissions, been bor-XII., and XIII.) hâve, sélections at the beginningrowed. Several of the short Boutet de Monvel :hâve been taken from Garrigues et while others were fur-Simples lectures sur les sciences; (eleventhnished by les Grandes inventions modernes concerning lightédition) by Figuier. The two articles form, from lahâve been taken, in somewhat abridged " Bibliothèque desLumière by Moitessier, in Hachette's merveilles." Bowen.B.