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 240 CHRISTIAN GREECE AND LIVING GREEK. This cannot be attained by means of the gram- mar. There is great activity on the part of modern linguists toward devising a rational way of imparting a colloquial knowledge of a lan- guage. A number of natural methods have sprung up, and have produced new activity in every country. Not alone the modern lan- guages have been taught by such systems, but attempts have been made to teach Latin after such methods. The best, indeed the only suc- cessful one, is the Tusculum system of Arcade Mogyorossy, of Philadelphia, Pa., who was born in Hungaria, where up to the time of the Revo lution of 1848-49 Latin served as universal lan- guage among the cultured people of the many nationalities in the country. Mogyorossy, al- though born after 1849, was taught his school lessons in geography, history, mathematics, physics, astronomy, all in Latin. He came to this country, where five years ago he com- menced to publish a number of books to intro- duce his method ; a little later on he published the most admirable Latin monthly, PrcEco Lati- nus, which has now reached its fourth year. The Tusculum system surprises us by its simplicity, the main feature being that the language is taught within itself out of its own material.