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Rh be replaced by select historical passages etc. from the writings of the same author.

Father Jouvancy, in several chapters of his Ratio Discendi, gives brief notes on the most important Latin and Greek authors and their characteristics, "to show," as he says, "in what order they should be read and what fruit may be derived from their study." A few of his remarks, as is to be expected, cannot stand in the light of modern philological and historical criticism. However, for the greater part his observations are most judicious and correct. We shall embody the substance of these chapters of Jouvancy in the following notes on the authors, supplementing them from the splendid History of Universal Literature of Father Baumgartner, and comparing them with the opinions of other prominent scholars.

is first and preeminently prescribed by the Ratio for every grade. And rightly so, if we except the lowest classes. For he is the master of the Latin language and the best representative of ancient culture, indeed, as regards Latin oratory, the only representative. In former times, particularly during the