A Handbook for Latin Clubs

by Susan Paxson

[Selections that may be used for the Programs]

A Plea for the Classics	Eugene Field	[65]
On an Old Latin Text Book	T. W. Higginson	[66]
St. Augustine's Love of Latin	Andrew Lang	[68]
The Watch of the Old Gods		[69]
Old and New Rome	Herman Merivale	[70]
The Fall of Rome	Arthur Chamberlain	[70]
A Christmas Hymn	Alfred Dommett	[71]
Roman Girl's Song	Mrs. Hemans	[73]
Capri	Walter Taylor Field	[74]
Palladium	Matthew Arnold	[76]
After Construing	A. C. Benson	[77]
A Roman Mirror	Rennell Rodd	[78]
The Doom of the Slothful	John Addington Symonds	[79]
Hector and Andromache. Schiller	Tr. Sir E. B. Lytton	[80]
Enceladus	Henry W. Longfellow	[81]
Nil Admirari	John G. Saxe	[83]
Perdidi Diem	Mrs. Sigourney	[84]
Jupiter and His Children	John G. Saxe	[85]
The Prayer of Socrates	John H. Finley	[87]
By the Roman Road	Anonymous	[88]
A Nymph's Lament	Nora Hopper	[89]
Helen of Troy	Nora Hopper	[92]
An Etruscan Ring	J. W. Mackail	[93]
Orpheus With His Lute	William Shakespeare	[94]
A Hymn in Praise of Neptune	Thomas Campion	[94]
Horace's Philosophy of Life	Tr. Sir Theodore Martin	[95]
An Invitation to DineWritten by Horace to Vergil
	Tr. Sir Theodore Martin	[96]
The Golden Mean. Horace	Tr. Wm. Cowper	[97]
To the Reader. Martial	Tr. Lord Byron	[98]
On Portia. Martial	Tr. Lamb	[98]
To Potitus. Martial	Tr. John Hay	[99]
What Is Given To Friends IsNot Lost. Martial		[99]
To Cotilus. Martial	Tr. Elton	[100]
The Happy Life. Martial	Tr. Sir Richard Fanshawe	[100]
To a Schoolmaster. Martial	Tr. John Hay	[101]
Epitaph on Erotion. Martial	Tr. Leigh Hunt	[102]
Non Amo Te		[102]
Gratitude	Robert Burns	[103]
A Hymn to the Lares	Robert Herrick	[103]
Elysium. Schiller	Tr. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton	[104]
Orpheus	Robert Herrick	[105]
Cerberus	Oliver Herford	[105]
The Harpy	Oliver Herford	[106]
Cupid and the Bee	Anacreon	[106]
The Assembly of the Gods A. Tassoni	Tr. A. Werner	[107]
A Model Young Lady ofAntiquity	Pliny the Younger	[109]
Translation	Alfred J. Church	[110]
To Lesbia's Sparrow	Catullus	[111]
Translation	Elton	[112]
Cicero	Catullus	[112]
Translation	Charles Lamb	[113]
De Patientia	Thomas à Kempis	[113]
The Favorite Prayer of MaryQueen of Scots		[114]
Ultima Thule	Seneca	[114]
Translation		[115]
The Roman of Old	Anonymous	[115]
Ich bin Dein		[116]
Malum Opus	James A. Morgan	[117]
Felis		[118]
Amantis Res Adversae		[119]
Puer ex Jersey		[121]
[Songsthat may be used for the Programs] Items in italics—except translators' names—have beenadded by the transcriber.
Flevit Lepus Parvulus		[125]
Carmen Vitae. Longfellow	Tr. Benjamin L. D'Ooge	[126]
Text		[127]
Gaudeamus Igitur		[128]
Text		[129]
Lauriger Horatius		[132]
Text		[133]
America	Tr. George D. Kellogg	[134]
Integer Vitae	Horace	[136]
Text		[137]
Rock of Ages. Toplady	Tr. William Gladstone	[138]
Dies Irae	Thomas of Celano	[139]
Ad Sanctum Spiritus	Robert II, King of France	[142]
Adeste Fideles		[143]
De Nativitate Domini		[145]
Bibliography		[147]
Acknowledgment		[149]
Footnotes	[end of maintext]
Publisher's Price List	[end ofvolume]

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THE VALUE OF LATIN

"Latin is the most logically constructed of all the languages, and will help more effectually than any other study to strengthen the brain centres that must be used when any reasoning is required."

—Dr. Frank Sargent Hoffman

The Latin Language.