PREFACE THIS book is different in some essential points from every other designed for beginners now in use in our schools. This fact gives the reason for its existence. Its vocabulary is made up largely of words colnymon to Caesar, Nepos, and the Viri Romae, and has been selected with great care from those found most frequently in these sources. The noun and verb have been treated for the most part in alternating lessons. Their forms have been analyeed in such a manner as to give practical guidance to the pupil, without any effort on our part to trace in such analysis the historical deveIopment of the words, even where exact knolledge in this line is possibIe. Verb and noun exercises as mere form drill have been suggested, rather than given in set exercises. Carefully graded reading lessons, fifty in number, are an important feature of the book. About three fifths of these are based on Caesar, about one fifth consists of fables, and the rest of a Latin version of the Labors of Hercules. These are led up to gradually in vocabulary and exercises in such a May as to smooth the path of the pupil, and at the same time leave difficulties sufficient to compel mental exertion on his part. Word formation has been treated in a simple and suggestive may, and made practical by brief exercises running through the latter half of the book. Word lists occur at intervals, in which related words are starred, These furnish material to the teacher for almost unlimited exercises on vocabulary, form, word comparison, and English derivatives. The main part of the book concludes with a series of connected English passages for translation into Latin, and colloquia drawn from incidents, historical and traditional, in Caesars life. These may be taken or omitted at the discretion of the teacher. The appendix contains a review of forms and constructions, with full references to the treatment of the same subjects in the text....