Excerpt from A Latin Primer: Introductory to Gildersleeve's Latin Series Maximum of Forms, Minimum of Syntax, Early Contact with the Lan guage in Mum - these are the principles which have guided me in the con struction of the Primer, and practical familiarity with the needs of be ginners in a kindred department convinces me that the principles are correct, however faulty the application may be. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.