Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from French and English Idioms and Proverbs, Vol. 1 of 3: With Critical and Historical Notes
Having for many years acted as examiner in several of the highest and largest schools and colleges in England, and having been privileged to conduct for no less than forty years Without interruption the French examinations of that most excellent institution, the Society of Arts, whose educational work, to say no thing of its other high pursuits, supplies one of the noblest specimens of English self-government, I have naturally had ample opportunities of noticing the utter ignorance of the English student in the matter of French idioms and proverbs - an ignorance which is more than equalled, I grieve to say, by that of nearly the Whole of the French community as to the niceties I had almost said the most simple features - of the English language.
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