384 Public Instruction. 
the results of this trial was verified on the 28th of Septem- 
ber 1822 by the inspectors of the Academy of Paris, who 
in conformity to the special desire of the Rector. gave it 
the most scrupulous and severe examination. They de- 
clared in their report, that the pupils knew and could em- 
ploy, without having recourse to the dictionary, about 7000 
latin words ; that the whole system of latin terminations, 
comprising the nouns of number and invariable words, were 
completely familiar to them ; that they knew and could re- 
uce methodically all the fundamental rules of Syntax ; 
that they could translate with exactness, not only the Epi- 
rus, and Cornelius Nepos, entirely, as well as one 
third of Quintus Curtius, but also from the French version 
of these different authors, they could re-produce the latin 
texts with surprising sagacity, making with equal facility and 
precision, the grammatical and syntactical analysis of these 
S. 
The first part of the method of M. Ordinaire compre- 
hends three sections. 1st. Preparatory exercises on the 
radical and latin terminations necessary to enable the pu- 
pil to comprehend and to translate the. classic authors. 
ercises in translation accompanied with grammatical 
analyses, together with the recomposition of the latin texts) 
without which the pupils acquire with great difficulty Just 
notions of the character and genius of the latin language- 
3d. Exercises in themes which can only be useful, when by 
the preceding exercises the scholar has obtained a sufficient 
share of preliminary knowledge to render his composition 
effective. 
At the examination on the 16th June last, at which the 
Rector of the Academy of Paris presided, the more ad- 
vanced pupils whose period of study, deducting all vaca- 
tions, was 16 months, not only translated with correctness 
and rapidity, difficult latin texts upon which they had n° 
preparation, but they turned into latin almost without the 
help of a dictionary, and with as much correctness a5 intel- 
igence, French texts which required a thorough know 
edge of all the rules of Syntax. ‘The rector and examiners, 
among whom was the learned M. Burnouf, expressed the 
’ satisfaction with the results of this investigatioa- 
They were not less struck with the uniformity of the knowl- 
acquired by the numerous pupils whom they interro~ 
gated, than with the cheerfulness and pleasure which the 
