Latin for beginners

Description

To make the course preparatory to Caesar at the same time systematic,thorough, clear, and interesting is the purpose of this series oflessons.The first pages are devoted to a brief discussion of the Latin language,its history, and its educational value. The body of the book, consistingof seventy-nine lessons, is divided into three parts.Part I is devoted to pronunciation, quantity, accent, and kindredintroductory essentials.Part II carries the work through the first sixty lessons, and is devotedto the study of forms and vocabulary, together with some elementaryconstructions, a knowledge of which is necessary for the translation ofthe exercises and reading matter. The first few lessons have been madeunusually simple, to meet the wants of pupils not well grounded inEnglish grammar.Part III contains nineteen lessons, and is concerned primarily with thestudy of syntax and of subjunctive and irregular verb forms. The lastthree of these lessons constitute a review of all the constructionspresented in the book. There is abundant easy reading matter; and,in order to secure proper concentration of effort upon syntax andtranslation, no new vocabularies are introduced, but the vocabulariesin Part II are reviewed.