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This Grammar is intended to do for Greek what the Grammars of Key ''and others have done for Latin. Until this work was published, no Greek'' Grammar had appeared based on the system of crude forms, though the system is perhaps still better adapted to Greek than to Latin.

The late Provost of Eton has here supplied a help to the composition of Latin Verse, combined with a brief introduction to Classical Mythology. In this new edition a few mistakes haw been rectified; rules have been added to the Prosody; and a more uniform system has been adopted with regard to the help afforded.

“The main merits of this version are its persistent fidelity to the sense and spirit of the Latin, the beauty of its form of presentation, its freedom, ''and its force. To the schoolboy it will be available as a help, because it is,'' beyond all comparison, the most accurate and trustworthy of all transla&shy;tions.” —.