This is an annotated version of the book1.contains an updated biography of the author at the end of the book for a better understanding of the text.2.This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errorsTo make the course preparatory to C�sar at the same time systematic, thorough, clear, and interesting is the purpose of this series oflessons.The first pages are devoted to a brief discussion of the Latin language, its history, and its educational value. The body of the book, consistingof seventy-nine lessons, is divided into three parts.Part I is devoted to pronunciation, quantity, accent, and kindredintroductory essentials.Part II carries the work through the first sixty lessons, and is devotedto the study of forms and vocabulary, together with some elementaryconstructions, a knowledge of which is necessary for the translation ofthe exercises and reading matter. The first few lessons have been madeunusually simple, to meet the wants of pupils not well grounded inEnglish grammar.Part III contains nineteen lessons, and is concerned primarily with thestudy of syntax and of subjunctive and irregular verb forms. The lastthree of these lessons constitute a review of all the constructionspresented in the book. There is abundant easy reading matter; and, inorder to secure proper concentration of effort upon syntax andtranslation, no new vocabularies are introduced, but the vocabularies inPart II are reviewed.It is hoped that the following features will commend themselves toteachers: The forms are presented in their natural sequence, and are given, forthe most part, in the body of the book as well as in a grammaticalappendix. The work on the verb is intensive in character, work in otherdirections being reduced to a minimum while this is going on. The formsof the subjunctive are studied in correlation with the subjunctiveconstructions.The vocabulary has been selected with the greatest care, using Lodge's"Dictionary of Secondary Latin" and Browne's "Latin Word List" as abasis. There are about six hundred words, exclusive of proper names, inthe special vocabularies, and these are among the simplest and commonestwords in the language. More than ninety-five per cent of those chosenare C�sarian, and of these more than ninety per cent are used in C�sarfive or more times. The few words not C�sarian are of such frequentoccurrence in Cicero, Vergil, and other authors as to justify theirappearance here. But teachers desiring to confine word study to C�sarcan easily do so, as the C�sarian words are printed in the vocabulariesin distinctive type. Concrete nouns have been preferred to abstract, root words to compounds and derivatives, even when the latter were ofmore frequent occurrence in C�sar. To assist the memory, related Englishwords are added in each special vocabulary. To insure more carefulpreparation, the special vocabularies have been removed from theirrespective lessons and placed by themselves. The general vocabularycontains about twelve hundred words, and of these above eighty-five percent are found in C�sar.The syntax has been limited to those essentials which recentinvestigations, such as those of Dr. Lee Byrne and his collaborators, have shown to belong properly to the work of the first year. Theconstructions are presented, as far as possible, from the standpoint ofEnglish, the English usage being given first and the Latin compared orcontrasted with it. Special attention has been given to theconstructions of participles, the gerund and gerundive, and theinfinitive in indirect statements. Constructions having a logicalconnection are not separated but are treated together.Exercises for translation occur throughout, those for translation intoLatin being, as a rule, only half as long as those for translation intoEnglish.