A NEW LATIN READING-BOOK: CONSISTING OF SHORT SENTENCES, EASY NARRATIONS, SELECTED FROM CAESAR'S GALLIC WAR: Arranged in a Systematic Progression. WITH A DICTIONARY. SECOND EDITION, REVISED. LONDON: WALTON AND MABERLY, UPPER GOWER STREET, AND IVY LANE, PATERNOSTER ROW, M.DCCC.LV. 305. C. 42. PREFACE. THE plan of the following Latin Reading-Book differs in one important point from other works of a similar kind. The sentences have been selected exclusively from Caesar's Commentary on the Gallic War, instead of being taken from different authors, as has been the usual plan. There is an obvious advantage in this plan; the same words are continually repeated by the same author in a simple narrative; and the pupil thus becomes accustomed to his style, and finds the work of translation grow easier every day; which cannot be the case when the extracts are taken from many different authors, whose style must of course vary exceedingly. The work is divided into three parts. The first contains very easy sentences, and only requires the pupil to be acquainted with the declension of the nouns, and the conjugation of the Indicative Mood Active Voice of the verbs, in order to translate them without any difficulty. The second part is divided into three sections: the first contains sentences in which the verb "To be" and the Passive Voice are used; the second supplies examples of b |