CORTINA'S FRENCH IN 20 LESSONS.

Revised by Douglas W. Alden '33. New York:Garden City Books. 1951. 348 pp. $1.98.

Douglas W. Alden has streamlined the old Cortina method of teaching French, in a recent edition, French in 20 Lessons (Garden City Books). The material is practical and lively. Artistic illustrations add to the attractiveness of the book.

Douglas W. Alden majored in French at Dartmouth and took his doctorate at the Sorbonne with a thesis on Marcel Proust and hisFrench Critics. He is an assistant professor of French at Princeton. He is also the author of Introduction to French Masterpieces, and coauthor of Bibliography of Critical and Biographical References for the Study of Contemporary French Literature.