Nutting Herbert C. A supplementary Latin composition

Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1901. — 84 p.As its title implies, this manual is designed, not to take the place of books based on the old methods of Latin Composition, but to supplement them. The need for such a supplement has seemed apparent to me in my visits to secondary schools. The two most common methods of study are the use of sentences based on a text to which the student has access, and grammatical reviews in which the work is arranged according to topics. A student put to the test, after completing one or both methods, will generally be found lacking in concrete knowledge; the first method gives too much help, and the second is so long in its completion that many points are forgotten before the end is reached. Asa corrective for this state of affairs, chance collections of examination papers are often used, but this is not a wholly satisfactory expedient. This book offers a substitute in the shape of examination papers which, in a small compass and systematically, cover the ninety-one points of Latin syntax outlined in the following Grammatical Introduction. The sentences, for the most part, are based closely upon the Orations and Philosophical Works of Cicero.