Now in course of publication, each TEXT in 32m0. neatly bound in cloth, GRAMMAR-SCHOOL TEXTS. With Vocabularies. Edited by JOHN T. WHITE, FOR Some time past it has been widely felt that a reduction in the cost of Classical Works used in schools generally, and more especially in those intended for boys of the middle classes, was at once desirable and not difficult of accomplishment. For the most part only portions of authors, it has been urged, are read in the earliest stages of education, and a pupil is usually taken from one work to another at the end of each successive half-year or term; so that, it has been added, a book needlessly large and proportionally expensive is laid aside after a short and but partial use for one of a more advanced nature and perhaps of still higher price. And that there is truth in these remarks, which are heard on all sides, it cannot but be conceded. Under the title of Grammar-School Texts, therefore, it has been determined to issue in separate Parts such portions of classical writers as are more generally read in schools. Each Part will contain a Vocabulary of the words found in the Text it embraces, written on the plan adopted in WHITE's editions of EUTROPIUS, PHÆDRUS, CORNELIUS NEPOS, &c. It is not intended to furnish the 'Grammar-School Texts' with Notes. Still, such points of construction as may appear to require elucidation will be explained under the proper articles in the several Vocabularies; so that much essential and legitimate assistance will be supplied to pupils in places brought prominently under their notice. London: LONGMANS and CO. Price Is. HORACE.-First Book of the Odes. Price Is. Price Is. Price Is. Price Is. Price Is. Price 9d. NEPOS.-Miltiades, Cimon, Pausanias, and Aristides. Price NINEPence. PHÆDRUS.-Selection of familiar and usually read Fables. Price NINEPENCE. IS. PHÆDRUS.-First and Second Books of Fables. OVID.-Select Myths from the Metamorphoses. Price 9d. XENOPHON.-Second Book of the Anabasis. Price Is. 'Each volume has a vocabu- dictionary.... Perhaps it may not lary, such as, for fulness and care, be beneath the dignity of the we have never seen attempted for critic to state that he has recently a single Author. The etymology witnessed the pleasure of a class in these vocabularies, in our of young beginners when WHITE'S opinion, makes them supremely Nepos was put into their hands excellent....The class possessing for their first essays in construing, one of WHITE's Manuals wants and he gladly records the hearty no other help, beyond a grammar. welcome with which the book was WHITE'S Vocabularies are greeted, as the words fell involuneasily handled by a new tyro, and tarily from the lips of several, yet are so full and complete as at "Oh, we can easily finish that once to demand the exercise of book this half!" Dr. WHITE'S thought and judgment, and thus idea is a good one, and the they are unconsciously preparing execution leaves nothing to be him to handle efficiently a larger desired.' SCHOOLMASTER. TEXTS nearly ready, in continuation of the SERIES: CÆSAR.-Fifth Book of the Gallic War. London: LONGMANS and CO. |