sider a valuable work for beginners, and in the sphere which it is designed to occupy, I know not that I have met its equal. Rev. James Shannon, President of College of Louisiana.

These works will furnish a series of elementary publications for the study of Latin altogether in advance of any thing which has hitherto appeared, either in this country or in England. — American Biblical Repository.

We have made Andrews and Stoddard's Latin Grammar the subject both of reference and recitation daily for several months, and I cheerfully and decidedly bear testimony to its superior excellence to any manual of the kind with which I am acquainted. Every part bears the impress of a careful compiler. The principles of syntax are happily developed in the rules, whilst those relating to the moods and tenses supply an important deficiency in our former grammars. The rules of prosody are also clearly and fully exhibited. — Rev. Lyman Coleman, Principal of Burr Seminary, Manchester, Vt.

I have examined Andrews and Stoddard's Latin Grammar, and regard it as superior to any thing of the kind now in use. It is what has long been needed, and will undoubtedly be welcomed by every one interested in the philology of the Latin language. We shall hereafter use it as a text-book in this institution Mr. Wm. H. Shaler, Principal of the Connecticut Lit. Institution at Suffield. This work bears evident marks of great care and skill, and ripe and accurate scholarship in the authors. It excels most grammars in this particular, that, while by its plainness it is suited to the necessities of most beginners, by its fulness and detail it will satisfy the inquiries of the advanced scholar, and will be a suitable companion at all stages of his progress. We cordially commend it to the student and teacher. Biblical Repository.

Your Grammar is what I expected it would be an excellent book, and just the thing which was needed. We cannot hesitate a moment in laying aside the books now in use, and introducing this. - Rev. J. Penney, D. D., President of Hamilton College, New York.

Your Grammar bears throughout evidence of original and thorough investigation and sound criticism. I hope, and doubt not, it will be adopted in our schools and colleges, it being, in my apprehension, so far as simplicity is concerned, on the one hand, and philosophical views and sound scholarship on the other, far preferable to other grammars; a work at the same time highly creditable to yourselves and to our country. - Professor A. Packard, Bowdoin College, Maine.

This Grammar appears to me to be accommodated alike to the wants of the new beginner and the experienced scholar, and, as such, well fitted to supply what has long been felt to be a great desideratum in the department of classical learning. Professor S. North, Hamilton College, New York.

From such an examination of this Grammar as I have been able to give it, I do not hesitate to pronounce it superior to any other with which I am acquainted. I have never seen, any where, a greater amount of valuable matter compressed within limits equally narrow. -Hon. John Hall, Prin. of Ellington School, Conn. We have no hesitation in pronouncing this Grammar decidedly superior to any now in use. - Boston Recorder.

I am ready to express my great satisfaction with your Grammar, and do not hesitate to say, that I am better pleased with such portions of the syntax as 1 have perused, than with the corresponding portions in any other grammar with which I am acquainted. - Professor N. W. Fiske, Amherst College, Mass.

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1844,

By CROCKER AND BREWSTER,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts,

STEREOTYPED AT THE
BOSTON TYPE AND STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY.

PREFACE.

In the series of elementary works published by the editor of the present volume, on the basis of Andrews and Stoddard's Latin Grammar, the following Selections from the poems of Ovid are intended as an Introduction to Latin Poetry.

Experienced teachers have often regretted the custom, so prevalent in the schools of this country, of passing abruptly from the easier prose writers to a work so difficult, in many respects, as the Æneid of Virgil—a work requiring, for its profitable perusal, so intimate a knowledge of the mythology and fabulous history of the Greeks, and of the peculiarities of poetic diction. In preparing this volume, the editor has endeavored to remedy, so far as was in his power, the evils arising from this custom, by furnishing a First Book in Latin Poetry more simple in its style, and accompanied with such helps as might serve to render the transition from prose to poetry more easy, and consequently more agreeable. For such a purpose, the better portions of the writings of Ovid are peculiarly well adapted, and to this use they have long been applied in the classical schools of Europe. While the versification of this author is in no ordinary degree harmonious, his language is simple, and his arrangement easy and natural. His subject, also, in the works from which the following extracts are taken, is well fitted for an introduction to the study of Latin poetry, inasmuch as the mythological fables of the Greeks are as inseparably interwoven with the Latin, as with the Grecian poetry.

The following selections from the Metamorphoses are, with some few exceptions, the same which were published in England, some years since, by the Rev. C. Bradley, and which have been heretofore republished in this country. The text is that of Burman, with occasional modifications derived principally from the Bipont edition and from that of Lemaire.

The Epistles of Dejanira and Medea were selected from the Heroides on account of their intimate connection with passages previously extracted from the Metamorphoses. They are designed as an introduction to elegiac verse, while the more copious selections from the Metamorphoses will serve the same purpose in regard to hexameter or heroic verse.

The brief Notes of this edition are intended to meet the wants of the student at that part of his Latin course, at which he may be supposed to enter with advantage upon the study of such an author.

To the Notes, Exercises in Scanning have been added, for the purpose of aiding the student at the commencement of his studies in prosody.

NEW BRITAIN, (Conn.,) April 8, 1844.

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