Adam's Latin Grammar, With Some Improvements, and the Following Additions Rules for the Right Pronunciation of the Latin Language A Metrical Key to to the Different Ages of Roman Literature,

Excerpt from Adam's Latin Grammar, With Some Improvements, and the Following Additions: Rules for the Right Pronunciation of the Latin Language; A Metrical Key to the Odes of Horace, a List of Latin Authors Arranged According to the Different Ages of Roman Literature, Tables

The experience of twenty-six years, and the united ap probation of the most judicious instructors in our country, give ample testimony to the excellence of Adam's Latin Grammar. And it 18 worthy of remark, that, amidst the changes of almost every thing connected with education, this work has maintained its popularity throughout the country since the year 1799, when it was recommended by the University at Cambridge. But several typographical errors, which were adopted from that Edinburgh edition, from which the first American edition ww copied, have been transmitted through subsequent editions to the present time with such scrupulous exactness, that they have now become canonized, and are received as authority. Be sides these, other errors have been creeping in, till a there h revision of the work has become necessary.

Atufiie time this book was first compiled, the state of education in Scotland may have been such as to render the connexion of the Latin with the English necessary, in the manner they were blended by Dr. Adam; but that neces city does not exist in this country, where English gram mar is separately taught from the more complete systems of Lowth and Murray. For this reason, and because what is not used in a manual becomes a hindrance, the portion pertaining exclusively to English grammar has been omit ted in this edition and some few additions and alterations have been made which were deemed important. But in all cases where it was practicable, the words of the original grammar have been preserved.

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