CLASSICAL SCHOOL-BOOKS 



By EDWARD WALPORD, M.A. 



XATE SCHOLAR OF BALLIOL COl/LEGE, OXFORD ; POBMEELY ASSISTANT-MASTER 

 OP TtTNBBIDGE SCHOOL. 



WALFORD'S HANDBOOK of the GREEK DRAMA Fep. 8vo. 6j. 



" The results of the learned labours ofSos, Donald- 

 son, Matter, and other scholars, on the theatre of the 

 Greeks, are presented by Mr. Walford in a concise 

 and systematic handbook, for the use of classical 

 teachers and students. Of the origin and history of 

 the drama, the characteristics of the principal writer* 

 in tragedy and comedy, and the various forms as- 

 sumed by dramatic art and poetry at different times, 

 an account is given, with supplemental disquisitions 

 on dramatic rhythm, quantity, verse, dialect, and 

 phraseology Mr. Walford's book is a useful com- 

 pendium of information, and a convenient manual 

 of reference." LITERARY GAZETTE. 



" Presents much information useful to students, 

 in a compact and available form." 



LITERARY GAZETTE. 



"A brief sketch of the old Greek stage, the play- 

 writers, the players, the plays, the theatre itself, and 

 the mode of acting, with a general account of the 

 metres used by the Greek dramatists. It is a well- 

 executed little guide that will be useful, we should 

 think, to many." EXAMINER. 



"This handbook contains a disquisition on the 

 origin and progress of the Greek drama, with short 

 biographical notices of the principal dramatists, a 

 iunt of their surviving works, and some 



episodical matter, as a description of the festival of 

 Bacchus. An analysis of Aristotle's Poetry follows, 

 with a variety of topics bearing upon the Grecian 

 drama. It is a useful publication, bringing together 

 a quantity of information in a small compass." 



SPECTATOR. 



"This little volume is of the multum in parvo 

 order. After a brief history of the origin and deve- 

 lopment of domestic poetry in Greece, in connexion 

 with religious festivals, the author gives an outline 

 of the scenic arrangements of the Greek theatre, and 

 thence proceeds to treat, in a series of sketches, of 

 the principal dramatists, both tragic and comic. 

 This is followed by an analysis of Aristotle's treatise 

 on poetry, and by an account of the various metres 

 it in dramatic composition, and (in an ap- 

 pendix) by a variety of matters, such as the canons 

 of Person, Bio m field, and. Monk; the whole forming 

 lete apparatus for the use of the teacher, who 

 will here find ready to his hands much that it would 

 cost him considerable trouble to search for in more 

 voluminous and expensive works." JOHMT BULL. 



" This little volume is intended to embody in a 

 cheaper form all that is really valuable to the 

 younger student 171 the theatre of the Greeks. We 

 consider the attempt, on the whole, a decided suc- 

 cess. The high scholarship of Mr. Walford is a 

 guarantee for its accuracy, and his elegant taste a 

 pledge for the excellence of the style. It is a mistake 

 to suppose that style is wasted upon schoolboys, 

 they find they remember the contents of one book 

 better than another, and they do not well know why. 

 But the secret of the difference lies in the ease with 

 which a true and simple style influences an uncor- 

 rupted taste. The work before us contains the 

 origin of the Greek drama, the characteristics of 

 the Greek dramatists, the rules of tragic verse, 

 and selections from the canons of the most distin- 

 guished Greek scholar?. An analysis of Aristotle's 

 Poetic is also included, which will prove useful to 

 students of a higher class." 



NEW QUARTERLY REVIEW. 



WALFORD'S SHILLING LATIN GRAMMAR... 12mo. 1*. 



" Mr. Walford's Shilling Latin Grammar is a very 

 useful little manual, not only cheap, but convenient 

 to lie by the side of the young student's book. The 

 accidence is very complete, and so much in a tabular 

 form as to be easily referred to : the syntax contains 

 a great deal in five pages." WEEKLY REGISTER. 



object of the author has been 'to compile a 

 more simple grammar of the Latin language than 

 he believes has yet appeared in England.' The 

 basis is the Charter-House Grammar, not the Eton ; 

 and there is a good deal for a shilling, from the 

 Alphabet to the Prosody." SPECTATOR. 



WALFORD'S HINTS on LATIN WRITING Royal 8vo. Is.M. 



WALFORD'S PROGRESSIVE EXERCISES in LATIN PROSE. With Refer- 

 ence to the Author's Hints on Latin Writing 12mo. 2s. 6d. 



WALFORD'S PROGRESSIVE EXERCISES in LATIN ELEGIAC VERSE. 

 FIRST SERIES. Adapted, with References throughout, to the Syntax of Dr. Kennedy')? Latin 

 Grammar 12mo. 2*. 6rf. KEY, 5s. 



WALFORD'S PROGRESSIVE EXERCISES in LATIN ELEGIAC VERSE. 

 SECOND SERIES. To which is prefixed a Grammar of Latin Poetry, mainly based on the work 

 of Jani I2mo. 2*. 6.J. 



WALFORD'S GRAMMAR of LATIN POETRY separate from the above. 12mo. Is. 

 WALFORD'S CARDS for CLASSICAL INSTRUCTION : 



CARD of GREEK ACCIDENCE 1*. 



CARD of the GREEK ACCENTS . . . . 6rf. 

 CARD of GREEK PROSODY 1*. 



" Mr. Walford is the author of what may be called 

 first safe, steps in education ; and to all who would 

 lead or be led in classic paths his Classical Card* 

 ' valuable assistants. They present us with a 

 iye view of the grammatical construction of 



CARD of LATIN ACCIDENCE 1*. 



CARD of LATIN SYNTAX 1*. 



CARD of LATIN PROSODY 1*. 



the languages on which they treat. BO flint, whether 

 in accidence or prosody, the pupil will find them a 

 convenient and safe reference. They are clearly 

 and elegantly printed, and issued at a moderate 

 price." ARMAGH GUAKDIAN. 



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