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508 spite of the infinite typographical faults which some times, invert the sense of the periods. It increase not to contain any of these works the figured pronunciation of the english words, nor the prosodical accent in the portuguese: indispensable object whom wish to speak the english and portuguese languages correctly."

Once or twice we have remarked the citation, by some amateur, of a little batch of phrases taken from this wonderful Guide; but they were only gems picked at random, and as the original work contains more than one hundred and eighty closely-printed pages, there are thousands of jewels left for us to select from without appropriating any that have ever been culled. First in order come sundry conversational phrases, such as—

When the student has mastered about thirty pages of these choice phrases, he is advanced to "dialogues," a few specimens of which we will append, beginning with the conversation entitled

Should any of our fashionable tailors ever be struck by the peculiarly elegant English used by some Portuguese or Brazilian customer, they may know where it was acquired by referring to the "little book" and to the following pattern dialogue:

If cheerful conversation be a boon to the sick-room, there ought to be much remedial virtue in the following specimen of a conversation designed for the use of those intending