ARNOLD'S CLASSICAL SERIES I. A FIRST AND SECOND LATIN BOOK ARNOLD, A. M. Revised and careful II. LATIN PROSE COMPOSITION: A Practical Introduction to Latin Prose Composition. By THOMAS K. ARNOLD, A. M. Revised and Corrected by J. A. Spencer, A. M. 12mo., $1. III. FIRST GREEK BOOK; Wtb Easy Exercises and Vocabulary. By THOMAS K. ARNOLD, A. M. Revised and Cor rected by J. A. Spencer, A. M. 12mo., 75 cts. IV. GREEK PROSE COMPOSITION: A Practical Introduction to Greek Prose Composition. By THOMAS K. ARNOLD, A. M. Revised and Corrected by J. A. Spencer, A. M. One vol. 12mo., 75 cts. V, GREEK READING BOOK, For the Use Schools; containing the substance of the Practical Introduction to Greek Cow J. A. Spencer, A. M. 12mo., $1 25 VI. CORNELIUS NEPOS; With Practical Questions and Answers, and an Imitative Exercise on each Chapter. E "ARNOID'S GREEK AND LATIN SERIES.-The publication of this valuable collection of classical school books may be regarded as the presage of better things in respect to the mode of teaching and acquiring languages. Heretofore boys have been condemned to the drudgery of going over Latin and Greek Grammar without the remotest conception of the value of what They were learning, and every day becoming more and more disgusted with the dry and un meaning task; but now, by Mr. Arnold's admirable method-substantially the same with that of Ollendorff-the moment they take up the study of Latin or Greek, they begin to learn sentences, to acquire ideas, to see how the Roman and Greeks expressed themselves, how their mode of expression differed from ours, and by degrees they lay up a stock of knowledge which is utteriy astonishing to those who have dragged on month after month in the old-fashioned, dry, and tedious way of learning languages. "Mr. Arnold, in fact, has had the good sense to adopt the system of nature. A child learn his own language by imitating what he hears, and constantly repeating it till it is fastened in the memory; in the same way Mr. A. puts the pupil immediately to work a: Exercises in Latin and Greek, involving the elementary principles of the language words are supplied--the mode of putting them together is told the pupil-he is shown how the ancients expressed their ideas, and the, by repeating these things again and again-iterum iterumque-the docile pupil has them indelibly impressed upon his memory and rooted in his understanding. "The American Editor is a thorough classical scholar, and has been a practical tear her for years in this city. He has devoted the utmost care to a complete revision of Mr. Arnold's wo ks has corrected several errors of inadvertence or otherwise, nas rearranged and improved var ou matters in the early volumes of the series, and has atte ded most diligently to the accurate I rin ing and mechanical exccution of the whole. We anticipate most confidently the speedy adoon of these works in our schools and colleges." Arnold's Scries of Classical Works has attained a circulation almost unparalleled, being Introduced into nearly all the Colleges and leading Educational Institutions in the United States პი GREEK OLLENDORFF; BEING A PROGRESSIVE EXHIBITION OF THE PRINCIPLES Designed for Beginners in Greek, and as a Book of Exercises for BY ASAHEL C. KENDRICK, Professor of the Greek Language and Literature in the University of Rochester. One volume, 12mo. $1. Extract from the Preface. The present work is what its title indicates, strictly an Ollendorf, and aims to apply the methods which have proved so successful in the acquisition of the Modern languages to the study of Ancient Greek, with such differences of course as the different genius of the Greek, and the different purposes for which it is studied, would suggest. It differs from the modern Ollendorffs in containing Exercises for reciprocal translation, in confining them within a smaller compass, and in a more methodical exposition of the principles of the language. It differs, on the other hand, from other excellent elementary works in Greek, which have recently appeared, in a more rigid adherence to the Ollendorff method, and the greater simplicity of its plan; in simplifying as much as possible the character of the Exercises, and in keeping out of sight every thing which would divert the student's attention from the naked construction. The object of the Author in this work was twofold; first, to furnish a book which should serve as an introduction to the study of Greek, and precede the use of any Grammar. It will therefore be found, although not claiming to embrace all the principles of the Grammar, yet complete in itself, and will lead the pupil, by insensible gradations, from the simpler constructions to those which are more complicated and difficult." The exceptions, and the more idiomatic forms, it studiously leaves one side, and only aims to exhibit the regular and ordinary usages of the language, as the proper starting point for the student's further researches. In presenting these, the Author has aimed to combine the strictest accuracy with the utmost simplicity of statement. He hopes, therefore, that his work will find its way among a younger class of pupils than have usually engaged in the study of Greek, and will win to the acquisi tion of that noble tongue many in our Academies and Primary Schools, who have been repelled by the less simple character of our ordinary text-books. On this point he would speak earnestly. This book, while he trusts it will bear the criticism of the scholar, and be found adapted to older pupils, has been yet constructed with a constant reference to the wants of the young; and he knows no reason why boys and girls of twelve, ten, or even eight years of age may not advantageously be put to the study of this book, and, under skilful instruction, rapidly master its contents. GESENIUS'S HEBREW GRAMMAR. Fourteenth Edition, as revised by Dr. E. RODIGER. Translated by T. J. CONANT With the Modifications of the Editions subsequent to the Eleventh, by Dr. DAVIES To which are added, A COURSE OF EXERCISES IN HEBREW GRAMMAR, and a HEBREW CHRES Extract from the Translator's Preface. "The fourteenth edition of the Hebrew Grammar of Gesenius is now offered to the public by the translator of the eleventh edition, by whom this work was first made accessible to stu dents in the English language. The conviction expressed in his preface to that edition, that its publication in this country would subserve the interests of Hebrew literature, has been fully sustained by the result. After a full trial of the merits of this work, both in America and in England, its republication is now demanded in its latest and most improved form." 36 |