Wall Otto A. Elementary Lessons in Latin

St. Louis: Aug. Gast Bank-Note and Litho Company, 1900. — 148 p.The elementary principles of the Latin language contained in this little book are sufficient to enable the student to read the Latin edition of the German pharmacopoeia, which is as much Latin as is necessary for the pharmaceutical or medical student. The grammar and the vocabularies and reading exercises are separate, which enables the student to fix in his mind the essentials of the language without the confusion which results from having grammar, vocabularies and exercises promiscuously intermixed. This arrangement has been adopted for the following reasons: The main purpose of these lessons is to enable the student to translate into English such Latin quotations, words, clauses, phrases or connected sentences as he may meet with in his general reading; for this purpose it is not necessary to burden the mind or to waste time with memorizing an extensive vocabulary; the vocabularies to be memorized are therefore very limited in number of words. The student is required to refer to a dictionary for the meaning of many of the words in the reading exercises, and thus to become familiar with the use of such a book. For this purpose "A LATIN-ENGLISH DICTIONARY for the use of Junior Students, by John T. White, D. D.," is recommended. In other words, a knowledge of the principles and construction of the Latin language may be obtained without memorizing hundreds and perhaps thousands of words, most of which will probably never be met with again in actual use of Latin.