BOOKS FOR SCHOOL AND COLLEGE. The ADELPHI of TERENCE, with English Notes. By the Rev. WHARTON B. MARRIOTT, M.A., and B.C.L., formerly Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, and late Assistant Master at Eton. Small 8vo. 3s. The WORKS of HORACE, followed by English Introductions and Notes, adapted for School use. (Forming a Volume of Arnold's School Classics.) 12mo. 7s. The object of this edition is to render all the assistance required by younger scholars for understanding Horace, while care is taken not to give too much. The notes explain all those little allusions which render this author so obscure without assistance: those on each Ode, Satire, or Epistle, are preceded by an Introduction, containing such a concise sketch of the history of the person addressed, or the object of the writer, that the pupil may thoroughly enter into the spirit of the piece. A chapter is added on the Metres used by the Poet. A FIRST VERSE BOOK, Part I.; intended as an easy This is both a Verse Book and also a short but complete. Prosody, and is intended to make the pupil thoroughly acquainted with the rules for Hexameters and Pentameters, which are required before he can compose from English words. Each Exercise is preceded by a lesson containing rules and verses to be imitated. The great advantage of the book is that the verses are not nonsense, but have been carefully selected, so that they can be construed by the pupil, who thus learns from the first to avoid mixing the words of different sentences. BOOKS FOR SCHOOL AND COLLEGE. A PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION to LATIN VERSE COMPOSITION. By the Rev. T. K. ARNOLD, M.A. 12mo. 3s. 6d. Fourth and cheaper Edition, considerably revised. 66 This Work supposes the pupil, be remarked in his reading and to be already capable of com- stored up in the memory. posing verses easily when the 'full sense "is given. Its object is to facilitate his transition to original composition in Elegiacs and Hexameters, and to teach him to compose the Alcaic and Sapphic stanzas: explanations and a few exercises are also given on the other Horatian metres. A short Poetical Phraseology has been added, both to render assistance in the exercises, and to teach a boy what sort of phrases should In the present Edition the whole work has been corrected, the translations being carefully compared with the originals. The Alcaics and Sapphics have been arranged in stanzas, and each kind of verse placed in a separate chapter, the old numbers of the Exercises being preserved for convenience in use. Other improvements have been made which it is hoped will add to its value. GRADUS ad PARNASSUM NOVUS ANTICLEPTICUS; founded on Quicherat's Thesaurus Poeticus Linguæ Latina. By the same Author. 8vo. 10s. 6d. half-bound. Assistance is here given in such | to caution the pupil to look out a form that the pupil cannot take lines or parts of lines, but must work up the materials for himself. This Gradus will be found a sufficient dictionary for the best Latin Poets words that are not actually synonymous, but nearly so, are marked in such a way as : their meaning: the epithets are carefully selected, with a view to create a judicious use of them: and the phrases are so introduced that, whilst they add to the pupil's stock of poetical ideas, he cannot borrow ready-made verses. * A prospectus, with specimen page, may be had on application. MESSRS. RIVINGTON'S Classified School Catalogue may be had gratis on application. RIVINGTONS: LONDON, OXFORD, AND CAMBRIDGE. |