Latin

7. Latin Primer (1878) by B. L. Gildersleeve. Gildersleeve was a great American Greek and Latin scholar. He taught Gresham Machen. There are some interlinear texts here to help the student.

8. An Inductive Latin Primer (1891) by W. R. Harper and Isaac Burgess. Harper also produced Greek and Hebrew primers along the same line. It begins with an excellent inductive introduction to English grammar - 66 pages! It is one of the most complete introductions to English grammar you will find anywhere, designed as a preparation for the study of Latin. The Latin text is interlinear. Highly recommend for the older student learning on his or her own. It would be a great blessing if a Latin scholar would make us a recording of the Latin. I would be very happy to make it available here.

9. A Latin Vocabulary, Arranged on Etymological Principles (1856) by B. H. Kennedy. The very best aid to learning Latin vocabulary and improving one's knowledge of the Romance Level of English. Here is his The Child's Latin Primer. It is most pages of accidence, not a real primer as we usually think of it.

10. Caesar's First Campaign: A Beginner's Latin Book (1910) by William Allen Jenner and Henry E. Wilson. A delightful beginner's book. 11. First Latin Lessons (1922) by Harry Fletcher Scott. This is one of the all time best Latin methods. There is also a teacher's manual that has not been published on Google Book yet. He also published A For Latin Book of Junior High Schools (1918). One outstanding feature of this latter book is a helpful introduction to English grammar as preparation for the study of Latin. The book has many other valuable features.

Readers and Things to Read

1. A First Latin Reader with Exercises (1913) by H. C. Nutting. This is the best reader I have been able to locate. It starts off with a story about the discovery of America. It is a truly delightful book.

2. Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles: A First Latin Reader (1904). Fables from Ancient Rome.

3. Latin Hymns (1904) by William Merrill. Not exactly a "reader" but plenty of lovely material to read of a most interesting and wholesome nature.

4. The Latin Vulgate New Testament with the Douay Version of 1482 in columns. Here is the Vulgate with parallel Douay of 1582, published by Bagster in 1872.

5. Latin Reader (1882) by B. L. Gildersleeve. A worthy but difficult work for advanced students.

6. A Latin Reader: Easy Selections for Beginners (1913) by Frank A. Gallup. This is a wonderful little book of easy stories with ample notes.

7. Pretty Lessons in Verse for Good Children with Some Lessons in Latin in Easy Rhyme (MDCCCLIII) by Sara Coleridge. The Latin section is rich with material for any level of learning. Below is the first Latin rhyme: A FATHER is pater a mother is mater

A sister is soror a brother is frater
A child should obey both his father and mother
And brothers and sisters should love one another

Latin Reference Books

1. New Latin Grammar (1918) by Charles E. Bennett.

2. New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges, Founded on Comparative Grammar (1916) by Allen and Greenough.

3. The Pronunciation of Greek and Latin (1920) by E. H. Sturtevant. A justly famous and useful useful volume for teachers and advanced students.

4. Latin Manuscripts (1897) by Harold Johnston.

5. Latin Grammar, School Edition (1905) B. E. Gildersleeve. See his Primer above. Fans of Gildersleeve will enjoy these lectures, HELLAS AND HESPERIA OR THE VITALITY OF GREEK STUDIES IN AMERICA published in 1909. There is also a photograph of the distinguised scholar and his distinguished long beard!

6. Latin Pronunciation of the Roman, Continental, and English Methods (1883) by D. B. King.

7. The Three Pronunciations of Latin (1879) by M. M. Fisher. An American scholars discussion of the Continental, Roman, and English systems of pronouncing Latin.

8. Latin Pronunciation Demystified (2005) by Michael Covington. This is a very helpful explanation. Here is Sidney Allen's very modern and very helpful helpful Vox Latina.

9. Study of Abililty in Latin in Secondary Schools: A Description of a Method of Measuring Ability in Latin, with a Statistical Study of the Results of a Survey in Latin in New Hampshire Secondary Schools (1919) of by Harry Alvin Brown. This monogram is a good model of how we can measure the development of students' ability in Spanish.

10. Latin and Greek in American Education (1911) edited by Francis Kelsey. This is a symposium on the value of classical langauges in American education. Another book along the same line is Teaching High-School Latin (1916) by Josiah Bethea Game. The book argues for the value of Latin in high-school.

11. Preparatory Latin Course in English (1884) by William Cleaver Wilkinson. While not a Latin grammar, the book will give students a background into Roman history and culture that will help spark their interest in learning Latin. Older Works of Considerable Value

12. Rudiments of the Latin Tongue (1807) by Thomas Riddiman. Latin AudioHere is rich resource of links for listening to Latin audio recordings. Here is a brief but valuable introduction to Latin Prounuciaton with mp3 files.

EFESIOS IN LATIN

My friend, Louis Tyler, made me a wonderful oral rendering of Ephesians in Latin, which I am making availables with his permission. You will be amazed how the text will leap life as you listen to the it over and over. I keep a copy in my pickup to listen to everywhere I go. This is the BEST WAY way to learn any language, living or "reportedly dead," which hardly applies to Latin since we can hardly read a page of English without encountering numerous words of Latin origin. Dr. Tyler uses classical pronunciation, Italian-accented. Here is a copy of the text so you can follow along as you listen to Dr. Tyler's recording: AD EPHESIOS. Just click on the Chapter for the mp3 recording: Ephesios 1 ; Ephesios 2; Ephesios 3; Ephesios 4; Ephesios 5, Ephesios 6.