The reviewer ventures to criticize Certain of the annotations and notes, however. In her own experience with foreign pupils she finds that a great many of them have met a great number of the words as a matter of course in their everyday life, and in any Case the common root of so many of these words makes them comprehensible without further explanation. Idiomatic expressions need more interpretation than the names of common objects. This, however, is but a very small matter. The value of these books is beyond question. Good English, style and interest are combined, and the publishers realize that the third mentioned is as necesry as the other two—EMM.P.
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