FIRST LATIN BOOK;

REMODELLED AND REWRITTEN,

AND ADAPTED TO THE

OLLENDORFF METHOD OF INSTRUCTION.

BY

ALBERT HARKNESS,

SENIOR MASTER IN THE PROVIDENCE HIGH SCHOOL

NEW-YORK:

D. APPLETON & COMPANY,

346 & 848 BROADWAY.

M.DCCC.LIV.

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1851, by

D. APPLETON & COMPANY,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New-York.

PREFACE.

ARNOLD'S First and Second Latin Book was introduced to the American public some five years since, under the editorial care of Professor Spencer. As the system was, at that time, quite new in this country, and comparatively so in England, the American editor did not think it best "to make any material alteration in the original work." The marked favor with which the volume was at once received, and the almost unprecedented success which has since attended it, are a sufficient proof of its excellence. The test of the class-room and the improved methods of instruction have, however, convinced teachers that, with many rare merits, and with a general plan most happily adapted to the wants of the beginner in Latin, it was still, in some important respects, quite incomplete in its execution and details. The present volume, undertaken at the request of the publishers, is the result of an attempt to remove these defects, and thus to render