1. Q. What is the general purpose of the series of four books, of which the present is the second in order of preparation and publication? A. To conduct the readers by means of the English tongue alone, through substantially the same course of discipline in Greek and Latin Literature as is accomplished by students who are graduates from our American colleges. 2. Q. What does this second volume of the series seek to do? A. To go over the ground in Latin literature usually traversed by the student in course of preparing himself to be a college matriculate. 3. Q. What three elements may be said to be in any body of literature? A. A substance, a spirit, and a form, somewhat separate one from another. 4. Q. Of these three elements, what two is it the hope of the author to communicate to his readers? A. The spirit as well as the substance, so far as they are separable one from another. 5. Q. By whom was the literature called Latin produced? A. By a people called Roman, chiefly in a city called Rome. 6. Q. Over what does the name Roman lord it exclusively? A. Over everything pertaining to Rome, except her language and her literature. 7. Q. What may this circumstance be taken to indicate in reference to Rome? A. What is indeed the fact, that literature was for her a subordinate interest. 8. Q. When was the city of Rome founded? A. An unreckoned time before the history of the city began. 9. Q. According to the fable followed by Virgil, by whom was Rome founded? A. By Æneas, escaping with a trusty few from the flames of Troy. 10. Q. According to a second legend, lapping on and piecing out the first, who was the founder of Rome? A. Romulus, whose father was Mars, the Roman god of war. 11. Q. What legendary line of rulers succeeded Romulus? A. A line of legendary kings, followed by a Republic. 12. Q. What may be assumed as the starting-point of Roman history, worthy to be so called? A. The war with Pyrrhus, which broke out two hundred and eighty-one years before Christ. 13. Q. After Rome had absorbed Italy into her empire, with what African city was a prolonged war waged? A. With Carthage. 14. Q. What three names were prominent on the Carthaginian side during this war? A. Hamilcar, Hasdrubal and Hannibal. 15. Q. Give three prominent names on the Roman side? A. Regulus, Fabius and Scipio. 16. Q. After the subjugation of Carthage, what is said of the dominions of Rome? A. Her dominions were rapidly extended in every direction until they embraced almost literally the whole of the then known world. 17. Q. When was the Augustan age of Latin literature? A. During the reign of Augustus Cæsar. 18. Q. What is said on the whole of the fame of ancient Rome? A. It is the most famous city of the world. 19. Q. What is stated in regard to the natural advantages of Rome? A. Its remove from the coast secured it, in its feeble beginning, against pirates, while the navigable stream of the Tiber made it virtually a seaboard town.