Easy Latin Prose Exercises. By H. R. Ileatley. (Rivingtons.)— This
volume contains a number of short sentences for viva voce lessons, prefixed to each exercise. It is Mr. Heatley's idea, and the notion seems a good one, that these should be first done, and should be succeeded by the exercise itself. Then come some pieces of continuous prose, each of them having a foot-note appended. Finally, we have "forms of analysis," which will assist the learner in the understanding of the way in which sentences are built up. There is an excellent hint prefixed to the vocabulary,—" If you cannot find a word, you must turn it." It is a hard thing to make boys tarn a word, but it has to be done. A boy who does it of his own accord has made a great step,—ulmost as great as when, unprompted, he changes the first of two English co-ordinated verbs into a Latin participle.
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