ESSENTIALS OF LATIN FOR 

 BEGINNERS 



By HENRY C. PEARSON, Horace Mann School, 

 Teachers College, New York. Author of Latin Prose 

 Composition, Greek Prose Composition 



^0.90 



THIS book is designed to prepare pupils in a thorough 

 fashion to read Caesar's Gallic War. It contains 

 seventy lessons, including ten that are devoted exclu- 

 sively to reading, and six supplementary lessons. The first 

 seventy lessons contain the minimum of what a pupil should 

 know before he is ready to read Latin with any degree of 

 intelligence and satisfaction. The supplementary lessons deal 

 largely with certain principles of syntax that may be taken up 

 or omitted, according to the desire of the teacher. 

 ^| The vocabularies have been carefully selected, and contain, 

 with very few exceptions, only those words that occur with 

 the greatest frequency in Caesar's Gallic War. About five 

 hundred words are % presented in the first seventy lessons. 

 There is a constant comparison of English and Latin usage, 

 but not much knowledge of English grammar on the part of 

 the pupil is taken for granted. The more difficult construc- 

 tions are first considered from the English point of view. 

 ^[ The topics, such as nouns, adjectives, pronouns, and verbs, 

 are not treated in a piecemeal fashion, but four or five con- 

 secutive lessons are devoted to one topic before passing on to 

 another. Sufficient change, however, is introduced to avoid 

 monotony. The work is provided with dimple reviews ; the 

 regular exercises review the vocabulary and constructions of 

 the preceding lessons, and these are supplemented by review 

 exercises. The last twenty pages are devoted to carefully 

 graded material for reading, composed of selections from Viri 

 Romae and the first twenty chapters of Caesar's Gallic War, 

 Book II., in simplified form. 



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