BY
ROBERT ARROWSMITH, Ph.D.
AND
G. M. WHICHER, M.A. Instructor in Classics, Packer Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Cloth, 12mo, 344 pages. Price, $1.25
This work has been prepared in response to a growing demand for a new first reading book in Latin, offering more simple and interesting material for the second-year work than is now provided by Caesar’s Commentaries, the first connected reading pupils meet in the Latin course.
It is the aim of the present volume to offer for the student’s first reading in Latin, material in which the least difficult Latin comes first; which contains the largest possible general vocabulary, instead of a small special vocabulary; which is drawn from a wide, instead of a narrow, range of literature; and which may be associated with other departments of teaching with greater success and productiveness than Caesar’s Commentaries.
The selections in First Latin Readings have, therefore, been chosen with reference to their difficulty, their interest as literature, and, as far as possible, their relation to Roman life and custom, and not with reference to their exclusive use as drilling material on formal classical construction.
Exercises in Latin prose composition, based on the text of each author represented, have been prepared, and are included in the book.