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section, taken, with some alterations, from the Grammar of Professor Sophocles, of the Hartford University, has been devoted to the subject. Rules for accentuation seem to the author an absolute essential in every work on Greek composition, whether in Prose or Verse.

4. In order to meet the wishes of numerous friends, and render the work available for beginners, as well as for those for whom it was originally designed, the author has engaged his colleague, Mr Jeffery, to compose and arrange sixty short INTRODUCTORY EXERCISES. Mr Jeffery has accordingly translated, paraphrased, and subjoined Notes to these sixty Exercises, and has moreover written a Critical Analysis of faulty lines, which appears in Section V. of the Introduction.

It is only fair to state that many of the English passages given to Mr Jeffery for these Exercises were selected by the author from Boyes' Illustrations of the Greek Tragedians.

5. The author has carefully revised all his own Exercises, which appeared in the first edition, and has arranged them in a more progressive order, gradually diminishing the amount of assistance given as the Exercises advance.

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This is deemed an important improvement. He has also added about fifty new Exercises.

6. Lastly, a short Appendix has been added, containing the Critical Canons, and certain other important matter, which seems an appropriate accompaniment to a work of this kind.

The main portion of the original work is thus increased to nearly double its former extent, an alteration which was first kindly suggested by Professor Browne, of King's College, London.

In this edition, it may be added, Paraphrases have been affixed to all the Exercises, though those towards the end of the book are much less literal than the earlier ones.

These paraphrases do not aim at a rigidly close rendering of the original passages, but rather at a representation of ENGLISH idioms and ideas by corresponding GREEK ones.

When the pupils are sufficiently advanced to render a paraphrase unnecessary, the author would strongly recommend the introduction of that admirable collection of passages, entitled Foliorum Silvula, by the Rev. H. A. Holden.

It may not be inappropriate to add, that in the Latin Verse Book, which, under the title of Lyra Latina, or Exercises in Latin Verse, will

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