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This new method of teaching Latin, depending in some 

 measure on a new tabular arrangement, or classification of 

 words which the pupils are to commit to memory, has ex- 

 cited considerable attention in France* It is thus noticed 

 in the Revue Encyclopedique for September last : 



*' We have shewn (page 230) the point to which the pu- 

 pils of M. Morin, instructed by this method, under the di- 

 rection of M. Ordinaire, had attained on the 19tb of July 

 last, after thirty-five days of study. From that time to the 

 24th of September, in spite of the derangements caused by 

 vacation, the more advanced pupi!s have learned more than 

 1,800 words, viz. the rest of the adjectives in the epitome 

 historm sacrm with their adverbial inflections. 2d. The ta- 

 ble of the names of Lai in numbers, ordinary and cardinal, 

 as well as the adjectives and adverbs derived from them. 

 This table is so familiar to the children that they translate 

 immediately, and without hesitation, the most complicated 

 numbers expressed either in Latin or in French, — a thing 

 which no pupil of Pthetoric, and even very few professors, 

 would be able to accomplish. 3d. All the pronouns. 4th. 

 The prepositions, with their complements. 5th. The verbs, 

 regular, irregular, and deponent oS the first and second 

 conjugations. These 1,300 words, added to the 1,200, 

 which the pupils knew in July, form a total of 2,500 Latin 

 radicals, to which they apply all the inflexions of each of 

 them. Furthermore, they translate immediatelyj with the 

 greatest facility, Latin phrases formed of those words, the 

 explanation of which requires no knowledge of the rules of 

 Syntax; and they analyze them also with perfect regulari- 

 ty. But what is still more remarkable, they turn French 

 phrases into Latin, without any other assistance than their 

 memory and their judgment, which are equally developed 

 by these exercises. 



Such are the results which M. Ordinaire has obtained in 

 three months and a half, with pupils frequently interrupted 

 in their studies ; results which any one may verify for him- 

 self, as we have done, with the deepest interest. 



The increasing success of this Latin class has determined 

 M. Morin to annex to his establishment a contiguous build- 

 ing, which will give him the means of receiving seventy ad- 

 ditional boarders. Experience has proved that the more 

 considerable the number of pupils, the more rapid is their 

 progress, because then it is more easy to class the children 



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