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Excerpt from New Elements of Conversation, in English and French: A Work Composed Upon the Plan of That of Dr. Wanostrocht and John Perrin The utility of dialogues, l'irr'nteral dos dialogues, for those who learn a liv pour em out apprennent one ing language, is too gene languo oioanto, est crop geni rally acknowledged to be mlomont roconnuo pour qu'il necessary to dwell on it soit nécessasro d'en parlor ics' here; we will therefore nous nous bornerons done 6. Confine ourselves to point indiquor let avantages do ing out the advantages of l'ouvra o quo nous firms the work we now offer the aujourfilmi on public, (wan pnblic, and which we hope rages qui nous font espérer will gain us their sufirage. D'obtom'r son sufi'rage. Ils These consist, in a very consistent, on an cocobo extensive vocabulary of the lairo tros-étendu dos mots los most useful words relating plus utiles, ayant rapport an to the world in general, to moods on général, aux arts, arts, sciences, dignities, etc. Aux sciences, aux dignités, etc, 'etc., classed under their etc, classés par ordre do ma proper heads, the whole tiéros, lo tout puisé dons l'ou taken from the esteemed orago trés-estimé da Dr. Work Of Dr. Wanostrocht, Wanostrocht, (woo quolques with some corrections and corroczions cl quelques change alterations (this vocabulary mom (nous croyons qua co no we conceive to be infinitely cabulairo ost infiniment plus more useful than that which utilo quo colm' qm' précédé precedes each dialogue in chaquo dialogno dons l'ou the work Of John Farrih, and wage do John Pars-in, ot one which, being repeated in la plupart dos professeurs no the dialogue, most profos font jamais apprendre 6. Pc sors never make the pupil lévo, parco qu'il so trou've ré learn): in familiar dia pété dons lo dialogue ognes on a greatbvariety of on dialogues familzers am ansubjects, in the English part of which we trust will not be found those gallicisms and bad locutions which should be so carefully avoid ed in a' work inte