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Allen and Greenough's Latin Grammar.

For Schools and Colleges. Founded on comparative grammar, revised and enlarged by JAMES BRADSTREET GREENOUGH assisted by GEORGE L. KITTREDGE, Professors in Harvard University. Copyright Edition of 1888. 12mo. Half leather. xiii + 488 pages. Mailing Price, $1.30. For introduction, $1.20. Allowance for an old book in exchange, 40 cents. THE object of issuing a new edition is to give the latest results of special study in this department, and to make in the grammar whatever improvements have been suggested by ten years' use under the most varied conditions.

The aim of the editors and publishers has been to make the grammar as perfect as such a book possibly can be. No less ambition would have justified undertaking any revision of a work so popular and satisfactory.

The method of the revision has kept the needs of the class-room always in view. The editors have striven to combine scientific accuracy with clearness and simplicity of statement. The language of the book has been subjected to the closest scrutiny throughout, and no pains has been spared to make the rules intelligible and quotable, without, however, conceding anything to mechanical ways of presenting grammar.

The size of the book has been somewhat increased, but teachers will find that the matter has been simplified. Simplification has sometimes brought expansion with it. Things taken for granted or merely suggested in the old edition have frequently been expressly stated in the revision.

Much new matter worthy of special attention will be found. In many particulars the new grammar will be recognized as marking a substantial advance. Attention is invited, for example, to the chapter on Word-Formation; the treatment of cum and the other temporal particles; the section on Reflexive Pronouns; the chapter on Order of Words; the Chapter on the Verb; and the important subject of Indirect Discourse.

Quantity. The quantity of all vowels known to be long by nature has been marked throughout the book (see Preface).

Examples. The examples have been greatly increased in number, and their scope broadened (see List of Abbreviations at end of Index).

Cross-references. The revised edition has been furnished with very numerous cross-references, by means of which the ramifications of a construction, etc., can easily be traced. In the same way references have been inserted in the grammatical analyses at the head of each chapter.

Typography. The pages of the new edition are much more open than those of the old, and in many other points the typographical arrangement of the present edition will, it is hoped, be found to aid the learner.

Indexes. The Index of Words and Subjects has been much enlarged and carefully revised, and a separate Index of Verbs has been added. The Glossary of Terms has also received some additions. The List of Authors has been divided into periods.

List of rules. The list of Important Rules of Syntax has been made much more complete, and has been furnished with references to the body of the book. In its present form this list will, it is hoped, furnish the pupil with a convenient and accurate summary.

Section numbers. — With perhaps half a dozen exceptions at the beginning, the section numbers of the new edition correspond with those of the old, so that references to either edition are good for the other, and the two editions can be used in the same class.

PARTICULAR ATTENTION

Is invited to a few letters which reflect the general opinion of scholars and instructors.

tionale of constructions. The book will thus be of quicker service to younger students, and a better equipment and stimulus to teachers and more advanced scholars.

Tracy Peck, Prof. of Latin, Yale | a richer suggestiveness as to the raUniversity: The steady advances in Latin scholarship during the last decade, and the more practical exactions of the class-room, seem to me to be here amply recognized. At several points I notice that the essential facts of the language are stated with greater clearness, and that there is

John K. Lord, Prof. of Latin, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H.: It

is a great advance upon the former | So far, its superiority to other Latin edition. Degrees of excellence are grammars for school use seems to me difficult to estimate, but it is safe to incontestable. I am also struck with say the grammar is doubled in value. the skill with which a multitude of It has gained very much that was additions and improvements have lacking before by way of illustration, been wrought into this edition, withand especially in fulness and clear- out materially affecting the unity or ness of statement. It represents the symmetry of the original work. latest results of classical scholarship in a way that is intelligible to young students.

pression and in the arrangement and
appearance of the printed page.
In short, the book seems to me admir-
ably adapted for use in schools and
colleges, containing as it does all that
the college youth needs, expressed in
language which the school-boy can
understand.

John Tetlow, Head Master of Girls' High and Latin Schools, Boston: The changes, whether in the direction of simplification, correction, or addi- | tion

Franklin A. Dakin, Teacher of Latin, St. Johnsbury Academy, Vt.: During seven years' constant use in the class-room, I have always regarded the Allen & Greenough as the best of the school grammars. The improvements make the superiority more marked than ever.

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D. W. Abercrombie, Prin. of Worcester (Mass.) Academy: In my opinion, it has no equal among books on the same subject intended for use in secondary schools.

J. W. Scudder, Teacher of Latin, Albany Academy, N. Y.: The changes will commend themselves to all good teachers. The grammar is now scholarly and up to the times. It is by far the best grammar published in

America for school work.

W. B. Owen, Prof. of Latin, Lafayette College, Easton, Pa.: I am much pleased with the changes. They are all improvements.

George W. Harper, Prin. of Woodward High School, Cincinnati, O.: and there are numerous in- I thought Allen & Greenough's Latin stances of each kind of changeGrammar could hardly be surpassed, seem to me distinctly to have im- but the revised edition is a decided proved a book which was already improvement.

excellent.

William C. Collar, Head Master of Roxbury Latin School, Boston: Up to the present moment I have been obliged to limit my examination of the revised edition of Allen & Greenough's Latin Grammar mainly to the Syntax, but for that I have only words of the heartiest praise.

Lucius Heritage, Prof. of Latin, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.: We have long used the old edition here: the new edition I have examined with some care in the form of the bound volume as well as in the proof-sheets. I think it the best manual grammar for our preparatory schools and colleges.