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object of this Grammar is to provide in a concise and readily comprehensible form all the information that can be required by all but advanced students of Latin. Much trouble has been expended in verifying the statements which it contains, and selecting suitable illustrations; and it is hoped that those who use it will have little afterwards to unlearn.

The best foreign authorities have been consulted, and amongst Grammars in English, those of Roby and Gildersleeve have been found of service, while some hints, chiefly in points of arrangement, have been taken from elementary grammars in current use. Notwithstanding this, it is believed that the book is sufficiently original, as a whole, to justify its title of the.

Among special points may be mentioned the careful marking of the quantity, both in closed and open syllables, in such a way as should make false quantities impossible. The Reformed Pronunciation, as used in the University of Cambridge, has been fully explained, but the book can be used without disadvantage by all who adhere to the old. Considerable simplifications have been introduced into the Syntax, as in the treatment of the Tenses, the Subjunctive Mood, Conditional Statements, Indirect Discourse, and elsewhere. The standard of the best Classical Prose has