| Grammar. | Composition. |
| 1. Parts of speech and elements: regular nouns and adjectives: est, sunt, and how to form 3rd sing. and pl. pres. indic. first conjugation, given the infinitive present. | 1. Simplest sentences: statement, question and answer. |
| 2. Commonest pronouns: present indic. of sum, and how to form 3rd sing. and pl. of all four conjugations, given the infinitive present. | 2. Cases of agent and instrument, time and place: quam with nom. and acc., abl. of comparison: a few common prolate verbs: simplest relative sentences and cum temporal. |
| 3. Pronouns and cardinal numerals: active of the four conjugations: sum: meanings and case of a few common prepositions. | 3. Ablative absolute, and a few more case usages: accusative with infinitive: use of se, suus, ipse: double questions: factitives in active, prolate verbs: relative sentences, with a hint of finals: commands and prohibitions: causal, concessive and temporal sentences. |
| 4. Ordinal numerals: passive of the four conjugations: a few common irregular verbs. | 4. Quisquam, quisque, quivis, etc. (meaning): chief case usages: factitives: common verbs with dative: dependent questions: accusative with infinitive, tenses distinguished: simple finals, pos. and negative: simple consecutives: verbs of hindering and fearing. |
| 5 and 6. Deponents, impersonals, irregular verbs: fill up gaps (add e.g., the rest of the numerals). | 5. Utor and other verbs with various cases: all case usages: gerund and gerundive: some impersonal verbs: final and consecutive sentences: conditions begun. |
| 6. Quisquam, etc., use and idioms: participles: nunquam, etc., causal, concessive, temporal and other conjunctions: conditions: obliqua. |
GREEK.
| Grammar. | Composition. |
| 1. Regular nouns and adjectives: article: εστιν and εισιν: how to form 3rd sing. and pl. pres. indic. of verbs in -ω given the infinitive present. | 1. Concords (including that of neuter plural): article in direct predication: simplest sentences, statement, question and answer: simplest meanings of cases: meanings of απο, εις, εν, εξ, μετα (gen.), συν. |
| 2. Some irregular nouns: cardinal numerals: comparison of adjectives: commoner pronouns: ειμι, with active of λυω. General rules for accent in its dependence on quantity. | 2. Article with demonstrative and with adjectives of position: αυτος: simplest meaning of the tenses: accusative with infinitive: some further particles of question and emphasis. |
| 3. Numerals: ειμι, λυω: a few irregular nouns. Accent of nouns and verbs (general rules). | 3. Genitive absolute: agent and instrument and other case usage: infinitive with verbs of command or request: commands, prohibitions, wishes (opt.): ἱνα and its sequence: double questions and further formulæ. |
| 4. Contracted verbs: parts of a few irregular verbs: accent of nouns and verbs (special rules) and contracted syllables. | 4. ὁπως with fut. indic. ὡστε: all final constructions: verbs of fearing: δια, νατα, μετα, παρα, προς, ὑπο. |
| 5. Verbs in -μι: οιδα φημι: parts of commoner irregular verbs. | 5. Accusative and nominative with infinitives: use of participles with certain verbs: consecutive and temporal constructions: simple indirect statement and question: the conditions begun. |
| 6. Irregular nouns and verbs: fill gaps. Revise with Goodwin’s Grammar. | 6. The cases, tenses, participles and prepositions: idioms, such as καιπερ ἁτε ὡς: conditions: all rules of obliqua. |
BOOKS.[15]
[15] V is added to those which have vocabularies; K means key.
The writer wishes it to be understood that this is not an exhaustive list. These books he has either tested by use, or has good grounds in the experience of others for the judgment given of them; but there are many others of the same kind, and there is often little to choose between them. The publishers whose books are given below are: Camb. Univ. Press, Clarendon Press, Blackie, Dent, Grevel, Isbister, Longmans, Macmillan, Murray, Rivingtons, Seeley, Trübner.
LATIN: GRAMMAR AND COMPOSITION.
Public School Lat. Primer (or Postgate’s New Lat. Primer, in some respects a more useful book) should be kept at hand, if only for reference and revision. Abbott, Via Latina (v), 3/6; excellent. Morris, Elementa Latina, with Tripertita as an exercise book, followed by Mansfield’s Lat. Exercise Book; a good series for very beginners, but the exercises need supplementing. Allen, Rudimenta Latina (v) 2/6; belongs to a complete series, the other books being an Elementary Latin Grammar, 2/6, a First (v), 2/6, and a Second Latin Exercise Book (v), 3/6. The last named is an excellent book for teachers, who may learn much from it, but I have found it dull and difficult for the learner. Ritchie, First Steps in Lat. (v), 1/6; also one of a series, with Ex. in Lat. Prose Comp. (v), 2/6, and Easy Continuous Lat. Prose, 2/6,[16] Latin Clause Construction, 1/6, a First Lat. Verse Book (v), 2/-, and a Reader Fabulæ Faciles (v), 2/6, with Imitative Lat. Ex. (v), 1/6, based upon it. These are good books, and I prefer them to Allen’s after using both series: the explanations are clearer, and there are more sentences. Macmillan’s Latin Course (v), two parts, 3/6 and 4/6; good. It has an advantage in the large number of exercises. England, Exx. in Latin, Syntax and Idiom (v k), 2/6; a companion to Roby’s School Latin Grammar. Rooper and Herring, Primary Lat. Exx. (v), 3/6; specially adapted to the Revised Lat. Primer. North and Hillard, Lat. Prose Comp. (v), for the middle forms, 3/6; carefully arranged and progressive from phrases and sentences to continuous prose. Champneys and Randall, Easy English Pieces for Translation into Latin Prose, 1st and 2nd series, each 1/6; excellent, and can be used with a sentence book as soon as the elements are mastered. More advanced Grammars: W. M. Lindsay, Short Historical Lat. Gr., 4/6; excellent. This is mainly philological. H. J. Roby, School Lat. Gr., 5/-; good. Not philological.
[16] See below, [Champneys].
For Idiom and Construction in the higher stages:—