30 MAY 1908, Page 24

Compendium Lalinum. By W. F. Wilton. (Edward Arnold. 2s. 6d.)—This

text-book is intended for "a boy who starts the study of Latin when about twelve or thirteen years old, and will continue at it for not more than three or four years." Mr. Witten has ventured "to run counter to the more recent views on the methods of language teaching," and stands, so to speak, on the ancient ways of grammar,—he "makes the study of syntax the central idea of the course." This is all right; but we have an idea that the "recent views," as most authoritatively set forth, refer to Greek ; that Latin is to be logically studied, the reform being that the learner is not to be worried with the grammatical study of two languages. He is to have Greek literature, Latin logic.