ALLEN & GREENOUGH'S LATIN GRAMMAR. The first edition was published in 1872, and was widely adopted, reaching a sale of over 30,000 copies. In 1877, the editors completed a revision, which has made it virtually a new work while retaining all the important features of the old. Attention is invited to the following merits of the book: 1. The Supplementary and Marginal Notes on Etymology, Comparative Philolegy, and the meaning of forms. In this department it is believed to be more full and complete than any other school text-book, and to embody the most advanced views of comparative philologists. 2. Numerous Introductory Notes in the Syntax, giving a brief view of the theory of constructions. These Notes are original contributions to the discussion of the topics of which they treat; they illustrate and greatly simplify syntactical construc tion, and are not based upon abstract theory, or "metaphysics of the subjunctive," but upon linguistic science, or upon the actual historical development of language from its simplest forms. 3. Treatment of Special Topics of Syntax. On these points we invite compari son with other school grammars on the score of simplicity and clearness. 4. The extended, and often complete, lists of forms and constructions. 5. Tabulated examples of peculiar or idiomatic use. 6. The full and clear treatment of Rhythm and Versification, corresponding with the latest and best authorities on the subject. 7. The unusual brevity attained without sacrifice of completeness or clearness. This Grammar expresses the results of independent study of the best original sources. It has been strictly subordinated to the uses of the class-room through the advice and aid of several of our most experienced teachers. The rapid adoption of this Grammar in over three-fourths of the leading colleges and preparatory schools of the country is believed to be a full guaranty for its adaptation to the purposes of instruction. ALLEN & GREENOUGH'S LATIN COURSE. Leighton's Latin Lessons (designed to accompany the Grammar). Six Weeks' Preparation for Reading Cæsar (designed to accompany the Grammar, and also to prepare pupils for reading at sight). Allen & Greenough's Cæsar,* Cicero,* Virgil,* Ovid,* Sallust, Cato Major, Latin Composition, Preparatory Latin Course, No. II. (with Vocabulary), containing four books of Cæsar's Gallic War, and eight Orations of Cicero. Keep's Parallel Rules of Greek and Latin Syntax. Allen's Latin Reader. Selections from Cæsar, Curtius, Nepos, Sallust, Ovid, Virgil, Plautus, Terence, Cicero, Pliny, and Tacitus. With Vocabulary. Crowell & Richardson's Brief History of Roman Literature. Crowell's Selections from the Less Known Latin Poets. Stickney's De Natura Deorum. Allen's (F. D.) Remnants of Early Latin. Leighton's Critical History of Cicero's Letters. Leighton's Elementary Treatise on Latin Orthography. A Full Descriptive Catalogue mailed on Application. GINN & HEATH, Publishers, Boston, New York, and Chicago. GOODWIN'S GREEK GRAMMAR. BY WILLIAM W. GOODWIN, PH. D., Eliot Professor of Greek Literature in Harvard University. The object of this Grammar is to state general principles clearly and distinctly, with special regard to those who are preparing for college. The plan has been to exclude all detail which belongs to a book of reference, and to admit whatever will aid a pupil in mastering the great principles of Greek Grammar. The Syntax has been allowed more space, proportionally, than the statement of the forms: this has been done from a conviction of the author that the chief principles of Syntax are a more profitable study for a pupil in the earlier years of his classical course than the details of vowel-changes and exceptional forms, which are often thought to be more seasonable. The sections on the Syntax of the Verb are generally condensed from the author's larger work on the Greek Moods and Tenses, to which advanced students, and especially teachers, are referred for a fuller exposition of many matters which are merely hinted at in the elementary grammar. The latter contains a brief statement of the author's new classification of conditional sentences, with its application to relative and temporal sentences, which is contained in full in the larger work, and which appears now for the first time in an elementary form. A catalogue of irregular verbs is added, which has been constructed entirely with reference to the wants of beginners. All forms are excluded (with a few exceptions) which are not found in the strictly classic Greek before Aristotle; and all forms which are not used by Attic writers are enclosed in brackets. From Prof. J. T. Dunklin, Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama, For class instruction it has, in my opinion, no equal. All the necessary facts and principles of the Greek language are stated and illustrated so plainly and clearly, yet in so brief a compass, that students will find everything easy of comprehension and application, and be relieved from the unnecessary detail found in many school grammars. |