By Charles E. Bennett

Description

First published in 1912, Bennett's New Latin Composition remains a highly regarded, widely used composition text for both high schools and colleges. Part I is based on the works of Caesar with illustrative samples drawn directly from his own words. Parts II and III concentrate on Cicero.

Special Features

• 30 composition lessons keyed to points of grammar and syntax (referenced to a standard grammar)
• Key vocabulary provided for each lesson
• Review section with paragraph composition
• Section on oral composition from graded English Sentences
• General English-Latin vocabulary

Comments and Reviews

The profession long looked forward to and appreciates the reprint of Bennett’s New Latin Grammar. Now it will be wonderful to have the companion piece, Bennett’s New Latin Composition. The composition book in one section emphasizes Caesar and in the other, Cicero; it includes additional work in continued prose and oral exercises as well as a comprehensive parallel vocabulary. The two books form a complete set for a course in Latin prose composition.

— Stanley Iverson
Concordia College

Author Bio

Charles Edwin Bennett (April 6, 1858–1921) was an American classical scholar and the Goldwin Smith Professor of Latin at Cornell University. He is best remembered for his book New Latin Grammar, first published in 1895 and currently available from Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Bennett graduated from Brown University in 1878 and also studied at Harvard (1881–1882) and in Germany (1882–1884). He taught in secondary schools in Florida (1878–1879), New York (1879–1881), and Nebraska (1885–1889), and became professor of Latin in the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1889, of classical philology at Brown University in 1891, and of Latin at Cornell University in 1892. His syntactical studies, notably various papers on the subjunctive, are based on a statistical examination of Latin texts and are marked by a fresh system of nomenclature; he ranks as one of the leaders of the New American School of syntacticians, who insist on a preliminary re-examination of all available data.