to the Exercises in Mr. WILKINS's Manual of Latin Prose Composition is supplied by the Publishers to Teachers only. Price HALF-A-CROWN. 73676 $10. Persons chiefly the subjects of action in Latin, things equally so in English II. PASSAGES FROM ENGLISH PROSE AUTHORS, FOR TRANSLATION INTO LATIN; WITH ADAPTATIONS OF THE N remodelling this volume for a new edition, cor as additions, made. In the Preface, especially, several fresh pages have been devoted to the comparison of the Latin and English idiom; the tabular list of idioms has been largely increased; and the marginal notes on Parts I. and II. have been entirely rewritten, in the hope of rendering the Exercises at once decidedly easier and more instructive. With the latter view, a Chapter, illustrating the main uses of the Subjunctive Mood, has been inserted in the Preface; and references, throughout the Exercises, especially in the First Part, have been systematically made to the rules there laid down, and which have been given on the authority of Madvig, Key, and Donaldson.* The Subjunctive Mood being the great stumbling-block of young writers of Latin, I have taken especial pains to give them clear ideas of the principles which regulate its use. References to Grammars seemed a less convenient plan than that which has been adopted in the present edition; the more advanced grammars, which alone treat the subject with sufficient fulness, not being generally in the hands of schoolboys. R Several new translations from English into Latin have been added to the FOURTH PART; and the references in the THIRD PART have been revised. The book is mainly intended to meet one of the chief difficulties which beset the juvenile composer-I mean the adaptation of the English to the Latin idiom. The subject, in the course of treatment, seemed naturally to divide itself into FIVE PARTS; each of which, it is hoped, will be found to be graduated, in point of difficulty, to the progressive advancement of the young scholar. I. The FIRST PART consists of a series of passages translated almost literally from authors of the golden age of Latinity. Marginal aid has been liberally given in the present edition; and reference made to standard authorities, whenever any important principle of grammar or construction is involved. II. The SECOND PART contains a selection of passages from the best English Prose authors. The original passage is first given; and appended to it is a version adapted to a literal translation into Latin-designed to illustrate, by practice, the characteristic differences of the Latin and English idiom. It is obvious, that the value of this part of the book must entirely depend on the merits of the translations themselves. I owe them to the contributions of the following friends, to whose classical distinction I appeal as a guarantee: I. GOLDWIN SMITH, M.A., Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford; Ireland Scholar; Hertford Scholar; Latin Verse, Latin Essay, English Essay. 2. JOHN CONINGTON, M.A., Professor of Latin in the University of Oxford; Ireland Scholar; Hertford Scholar, Latin Verse, Latin Essay, English Essay. |