A PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION то LATIN COMPOSITION. FOR SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES. BY ALBERT HARKNESS, PH.D., PROFESSOR IN BROWN UNIVERSITY. ADAPTED TO THE REVISED STANDARD EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S NEW YORK: D. APPLETON AND COMPANY. LONDON: 16 LITTLE BRITAIN. 1886. HARVARD Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by ALBERT HARKNESS, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Rhode Island. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1882, by In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. PREFACE. THIS volume is intended to aid the classical student in acquiring a practical acquaintance with the difficult but important subject of Latin composition. It aims to be at once simple, progressive, and complete. Starting with the beginner as soon as he has learned a few grammatical forms, it conducts him step by step through a progressive series of lessons and exercises, until he is so far master both of the theory and of the practice of the subject, that he no longer needs the aid of a special textbook. The work consists of three parts, of which the first is purely elementary, and is intended as a companion to the Reader. It aims to give the pupil familiarity with the power and use of grammatical inflections, and facility in the application of the great and controlling principles of the language. Part Second will furnish the learner instruction and practice in Latin composition throughout the subsequent stages of his preparatory course for college. The exercises have special reference to the syntax of the language, and are, to a great extent, imitations of the ordinary constructions contained in the Commentaries of Caesar, and in the Orations of Cicero. In subject matter they also relate to topics contained in those works. Part Third, intended for the earlier portion of a collegiate course of study, aims to introduce the student to a practical (iii) |