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A Grammar of the Latin Language for the
use of Schools and Colleges by E. A. An
drews and A. &oddard, PIP. 1913. bos'
ton, Crockcr d. Bre'cster, 1887.
This excellent work, the fruit Of much study
and experience, was first given to the pubic
in the year 1886. 1t has, since that t'me'
been adopted in several Of the oldest and most
distinguished Institutions ofthe North IN tne't
preparatory course ofstudy and the demand
fo. it has become such as to justify the puo-
fishers in stereotyping it. On recent Visit
to our literary metropolis, we were surpr'-
sed TO learn that it had never yet found lis
way into the only extensive bookstore there
TO correct and eminent attainments in CIas-
sical learning, thorough acquaintance with
the principles and peculiarities of the several
languages, and constant reference to those
principles, in daily study and recitations, are
absolutely essential. The true friends o
learning must, therefore, regard with interest,
while they scrutinize with caution, every pro-
cssed attempt to Ella acdate aud exhibit those
rinciples and pecuarities in Grammars In
,ended for use in Elementary Instruction.
We suppose that all intelligent instructors
have had occasion to complain the inaccura-
cy or insuf6ciency of the Grammars more COM
monty used in schools, and it is because many
of the difficulties, heretofore felt, appear to be
removed in the present work. that we have
desired to invite to it the attention OF those
who are Interested and who have not seen It,.
In the first part on Orthography, the Gram
mar now under consideration does not materl-
ally differ from several others. In the second
part seven pages Of matter have been intro
duced on Or,hoepy,a subject to which very lit
tie space is usually allotted This portion
treats Of the sound of the letters and Dip
thongs, accentuaton, and the division of words
into syllab!es. Correct pronunciation, the
sure indication of careful scholar, is now
much neglected in our schools, and improve.
ment in this respect is required. The rules
in the present work for the sound of the letters,
although, we are aware, that they are those
sanctioned by high authority at the North, do
so much violence, in some instances to our
habits, that we doubt whether they will prove
acceptable. Some fixed standard is, however,
certainly desirable in order that there may be
more uniformity ia this respect than there has
hitherto been.
In Etymology and Sy7ta1, the most phiio-
scrhical paris OF Grammar and' therefore, the
most interesting to scholars, we think, the
present work is a manifest and eminent I'm
provemcnt on those heretofore published TOR
schools. The diligence and care with which
the various changes in the form Of words
made fer the purpose of expressing modlfca-
ca,iens of the principal idea, are exhibited
and eyn.ained, both as 10 manner of formation,
and force of meaning the accuracy OF the
language IN which the principles Of syntaS are
stated tile philosophical order followed IN
their arrangement; the minuteness of detail
and especially the sections introduced on inc
use of the lenses and The Moods, will conn.,
mend these portions to the pcrusal and appro-
baton of all concerned. Nor does the gener-
n character of the work fail III the fifth and
last part devoted to prosody. On the contra
~ this is unusually full, ana contains several
things which we have heretofore found only in
the larger Grammars and extended seperate
treatlses.
The mechanical execution is worthy of the
publishers and the whole work will richly re-
nav the careful examination of instructors
a series o f elementary works. adapted to the
above Grammar, has been prepared by Pro-
fessor..Andreus and published by the same
house, bu, We have not yet seen these works.