SUGGESTIONS   TO  TEACHERS

While it would be presumptuous to do aught to hamper the
individual teacher in freedom of treatment of the present book,
it may not be amiss to indicate its design and to offer certain
suggestions which, it is believed, will tend to secure the best
results from its use. The book is designed primarily to cover
the composition work of the second and third years of a high
school course. It may even be used to cover the entire course
of college preparation in this subject; for a student who has
mastered the book is qualified, by adding to his vocabulary less
than fifty Ciceronian words, to pass any of the examinations
usually set in Latin Composition.

The writing of at least a considerable portion of Part I
should accompany the reading of Caesar. Should the time
allowed for Latin Composition in any school not be deemed
adequate for the completion of Part I during the second year
of Latin study, the book may be used in either of the two ways
indicated below.

I.   Thirty lessons may be completed in the second year, leav¬
ing the remaining ten lessons, with Part II and possibly a
portion of Part III, for the third year. Part III may be com¬
pleted, and the book reviewed, during the fourth and last year
of secondary school work. This method will postpone until the
third year the difficulties of indirect discourse and of the more
complex English non-finite constructions.

II.   For teachers who feel that the student must in his second
year handle the laws of indirect discourse as instruments of
production, certain sections may be omitted during the second
year, together with the sentences based on them.    These sections

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