=With Full Introductory Notes On Idiom=
By MAURICE W. MATHER, Ph.D.
Formerly Instructor in Latin in Harvard University
and ARTHUR L. WHEELER, Ph.D.
Instructor in Latin in Yale University
=Half Leather, 12mo, 216 pages Price $1.00=
The present book furnishes all the essential material for the writing of
average passages in Latin Prose. It is not intended to teach how to
write isolated sentences, illustrative of given constructions, but the
book assumes that the pupil, after a year or more of such practice, is
ready to learn the art of writing connected narrative in Latin. The
authors have based their exercises on Caesar's Gallic War Books III and
IV, Nepos's Alcibiades and Hannibal, and Cicero's Manilian Law and
Archias, inasmuch as these are not only models of good style, but are
usually read in schools. As the book is not for beginners, the
individual exercises have not been made vehicles for teaching any one or
two constructions, but the authors have felt at liberty to introduce at
any time even the more difficult constructions; indirect discourse, for
instance, being taken up at the very beginning.
While, in general, the vocabulary and the constructions for any exercise
are supplied in the Latin text on which the given exercise is based, yet
enough variation from the language of the model is required to give the
pupil abundant practice in handling forms and constructions. By this
means the pupil's power of observation is increased, his interest is
quickened by the pleasure of discovery, and he will remember the word
much better than if he found it ready at hand in a dictionary.
A number of recent examination papers from various colleges have been
inserted in the belief that they will be found useful for sight tests
and occasional examinations. The notes accompanying some of the papers
belong to the original examinations. At the end of the book are indexes
of words and constructions, and of English words and phrases with
references to sections of the Notes on Idiom in Part I.
_Copies sent, prepaid, to any address on receipt of the price._
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