Although, ideally speaking, a phrase-book should always be compiled by
the pupil himself from his own individual observation, yet in these
days, when an extended curriculum tends to curtail considerably the
amount of Latin read, it seems to me that anything which may help boys
to some knowledge of Latinity in a short time is not wholly useless.
Hence this translation. The use of such books as _Meissner's
Phraseologie_ involves no new and untried principles, witness the
excellent results obtained in Germany, where the book has passed
through six editions. It has also been translated into French (the
translation is now in its third edition) and Italian.
My best thanks are due to Professor Meissner for his courtesy in
allowing me to make this translation, also to Professor Pascal of
Reims, to whose admirable translation I am much indebted.