PREFACE. It is not intended by this publication to present a new Greek Grammar to the classical student ; after the elaborate volumes of Matthiae, Buttman, Kuhner, Gail, Burnouf, and other scholars of Germany and France, it would be altogether vain to expect any new discovery in that language. The most that we can do is to avail ourselves of their labours in order to smoothe the difficulties which are usually met in its study. The greatest of these we have learned from a long experience in teaching, is the large size of the grammars which are put in the student’s hands when he commences. Excellent as these may be for the professor or more advanced scholar, they only tend to deter the beginner from approaching it. We trust that this will be obviated by the present compendium, in which we have endeavoured to comprise within as short a compass as possible all that is of absolute necessity to the learner. If it induce him to apply with more alacrity to study a language second to none in the literary beauties and treasures which it contains, our intentions will have been amply fulfilled. Digitized by Google., Print version record