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PREPARED BY W. F. AND J. H. ALLEN.

1. MANUAL LATIN GRAMMAR. pp. 148. The first edition of this Grammar was published in August, 1868; the fifth edition, thoroughly revised, with the addition of full Tables of Inflection, in 1869. It is believed to be sufficiently complete for all the needs of the ordinary student of Latin. Price, $1.25.

2. LATIN LESSONS. pp. 138. Consisting of a carefully prepared method of instruction and course of exercises, on the basis of Cæsar, followed by half the First Book of the Gallic War, and exercises in Prosody; with Notes and Vocabulary. Price, $1.25.

N.B. When used in commencing a course of Latin Study, the Grammar and Lessons should be used together.

3. LATIN READER. pp. 518. Consisting of Selections from Phædrus, Cæsar, Curtius, Nepos, Sallust, Ovid, Virgil, Plautus, Terence, Cicero, Pliny, and Tacitus, with Notes and a General Vocabulary of Latin, of more than 16,000 words. Price, $2.50.

4. LATIN PRIMER. pp. 155. By J. H. ALLEN. This is designed for the use of scholars of a younger class; and consists of thirty lessons, carefully arranged (an adaptation of the Robertsonian method) so as to give a full outline of the Grammar, accompanied by Tables of Inflection; with Dialogues (Latin and English), and selections for reading. Price, $1.25.

5. LATIN COMPOSITION. pp. 000. By W. F. ALLEN. Containing a thorough review of the principles of Syntax, with exercises, including practice in narrative and epistolary composition, Notes, and English-Latin Vocabulary. Price, $1.25.

These books may be had at the following rates, for examination :

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Part I. of PRIMER (stiff paper, pp. 62, with Tables) may be had, in connection with the LESSONS, for 25 cts. additional.

The Selections, and Vocabulary of the Reader are sold separately for $1.50 and $1.25.

TABLES, 10 cts. single; 75 cts. per dozen; $5.00 per hundred.

ALLEN'S

LATIN GRAMMAR, LESSONS, AND READER.

NOTICE. The Latin Reader of this course having been adopted at Exeter and elsewhere as an equivalent for Cæsar, the publication of Caesar's Civil War, heretofore announced, will be postponed.

From Professor WHITNEY, of Yale College.

NEW HAVEN, Nov. 4, 1868.

We are very favorably impressed here by Professor Allen's work, and, as you will see in the College Catalogue, when it appears, have taken it as the standard for the knowledge of Latin grammar which shall be expected of those who present themselves for entrance to the Sheffield Scientific School. My confidence in the learning and the spirit of its authors is very high.

From Professor MAGILL, of Swarthmore College, Pa.

This unpretending, yet most excellent little book, well mastered, will make far more accurate and thorough Latin scholars than the painful and discouraging study of the more voluminous grammars in common use. Among so much that is excellent it is difficult to particularize; but I may mention the condensed view of the conjugations of the verbs; the truly philosophical treatment of the subjunctive, and the article on the quantity of penultimate syllables,

It gave me great satisfaction to find several subjects abridged and presented in almost the identical form which I found it necessary to adopt for years in the practical work of the class-room.

From HENRY F. MUNROE, of the High School, Chicago.

CHICAGO, March 18, 1870.

Let me express my hearty approbation of these little volumes, and my entire satisfaction with the practical trial I have given them. My class is very large, comprising the entire Junior Class in the High School, numbering nearly 120 pupils. So you will perceive that I must have all grades of ability, and that no particular portion of the books has been marked by difficulties peculiar to itself, since the studious portion of the class advances quite smoothly from one subject to another, and those of lower ability needed as much instruction in simple lessons as in the more difficult.

At first, the seemingly indiscriminate use of prepositions was a great obstacle in the way of our progress. But as the pupil was taught by your well-arranged Exercises to distinguish between the relations expressed by case-endings, and those expressed by prepositions, the trouble gradually disappeared.

Candidly, I do not think that you would be a gainer by making any great change in either of your books. You have followed out all the salient points in the elementary study of Latin; and after a few paradigms have been thoroughly mastered, the Lessons become, with me at least, the chief book. The grammatical relations are all so well provided for in the Exercises, that very little "Gerund grinding" is needed from the Grammar. I think that the books are excellent as they are; but if any change should be made, it seems to me that even less Grammar, if possible, should be given, and more copious exercises, involving as far as was practicable the use of complete sentences instead of phrases.

From S. H. TAYLOR, Andover.

ANDOVER, Sept. 1, 1868.

It contains all the general principles of the language, clearly and concisely stated, and is sufficiently full to meet the ordinary wants of the pupil in the early part of his course. I am glad to see a Latin Grammar in so compact, and yet so complete, a form. It is very happily adapted to smooth the path of the pupil in the study of the Latin language.

From the Nation.

ALLEN'S LATIN GRAMMAR MANUAL.-At a time when classical studies have been assailed rigorously as, at best, involving an unprofitable use of time, the text-books in mathematics and the physical sciences, and even in the modern languages, have become excellent in plan and arrangement, while the Latin and Greek grammars have been neither well-arranged nor correct, and far, indeed, from being interesting; and classical studies have suffered seriously from the bad text-books from which they have had to be pursued.

The book before us seems to us the first successful attempt to remedy the difficulties we have indicated. The Messrs. Allen have begun by rejecting courageously a great deal of information contained in the old grammars which is unnecessary for beginners, including some things which the more advanced Latin scholars must know; but the book, as they take pains to say in their preface, is intended for learners, not for teachers, and the latter must look elsewhere for information upon the nicer points of the language.

Grammar is, after all, a somewhat abstruse science, and the attempt to simplify its language is, therefore, difficult; but we think that all must admit that the Messrs. Allen have been very fortunate, and certainly far more successful than any of their predecessors.

They deserve the thanks, not only of beginners, but of all Latin scholars, for doing so much to clear up the subject of the subjunctive mood, which other grammarians have made a very slough of despond, in which many a journey to the land of classical learning when well begun has prematurely ended.

From Prof. KENDRICK, Rochester University.

ROCHESTER, Nov. 10, 1869. DEAR SIR, Will you pardon my delay in acknowledging the in every way admirable and elegant "Latin Reader," by Messrs. Allen, which you had the kindness to send me. It is quite unique, and in its selections, notes, vocabulary, and typographical execution, seems equally excellent.

From President WHITE, of Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.

ITHACA, N.Y., Sept. 5, 1868. Accept my sincere thanks for your "Latin Grammar." It gives some hope for classical scholarship. I have been long convinced that the most dangerous foes of classical studies are not the men who decry them, the Philistines, but the men who smother them, the Pedants. If

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