Text: Edgar Allan Poe (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), November 8, 1845, vol. 2, no. 18, p. ???, col. ?

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A Complete System of Latin Prosody, for the use of Schools, Colleges, and Private Learners; on a plan entirely New. By Patrick S. Casserly, formerly Principal of the Chrestomathic Institutions, etc. etc, New-York: Casserly & Sons, 108 Nassau St.

Mr. Casserly has acquired a deserved reputation as a teacher, and as the literal translator of Longinus — also by his Jacob's “Greek Reader.” He is undoubtedly one of our best scholars, and the volume before us will do him infinite credit. Its comprehensiveness is especially notables but the author is sadly in error, we think, in supposing that Latin Prosody, any more than Latin Syntax, can be best studied in Latin rules. We are glad to find that he has not carried his system so far as to exclude the use of English rules, for those who prefer them. His Latin Hexameters are translated. The volume is, in general, accurately printed, but has some errors — vide p. 13. 1. 7.