All this will be best arrived at by trying how far he can frame a possible, or analyze a given sentence. To translate an English sentence into Latin is to _frame_ a sentence, and is the best test whether or not a student knows the difference of Latin from English construction; to construe and parse is to _analyze_ a sentence, and is an evidence of the easier attainment of knowing what Latin construction is in itself. And this is the sense of the word “Grammar” which our inaccurate student detests, and this is the sense of the word which every sensible tutor will maintain. His maxim is, “a little, but well;” that is, really know what you say you know: know what you know and what you do not know; get one thing well before you go on to a second; try to ascertain what your words mean; when you read a sentence, picture it before your mind as a whole, take in the truth or information contained in it, express it in your own words, and, if it be important, commit it to the faithful memory. Again, compare one idea with another; adjust truths and facts; form them into one whole, or notice the obstacles which occur in doing so. This is the way to make progress; this is the way to arrive at results; not to swallow knowledge, but (according to the figure sometimes used) to masticate and digest it. 2. To illustrate what I mean, I proceed to take an instance. I will draw the sketch of a candidate for entrance, deficient to a great extent. I shall put him below _par_, and not such as it is likely that a respectable school would turn out, with a view of clearly bringing before the reader, by the contrast, what a student ought _not_ to be, or what is meant by _inaccuracy_. And, in order to simplify the case to the utmost, I shall take, as he will perceive as I proceed, one _single word_ as a sort of text, and show how that one word, even by itself, affords matter for a sufficient examination of a youth in grammar, history, and geography. I set off thus:— _Tutor._ Mr. Brown, I believe? sit down. _Candidate._ Yes. _T._ What are the Latin and Greek books you propose to be examined in? _C._ Homer, Lucian, Demosthenes, Xenophon, Virgil, Horace, Statius, Juvenal, Cicero, Analecta, and Matthiæ. _T._ No; I mean what are the books I am to examine you in? _C. is silent._ _T._ The two books, one Latin and one Greek: don’t flurry yourself. _C._ Oh, … Xenophon and Virgil. _T._ Xenophon and Virgil. Very well; what part of Xenophon? _C. is silent._ _T._ What work of Xenophon? _C._ Xenophon. _T._ Xenophon wrote many works. Do you know the names of any of them? _C._ I … Xenophon … Xenophon. _T._ Is it the _Anabasis_ you take up? _C._ (_with surprise_) O yes; the Anabasis. _T._ Well, Xenophon’s Anabasis; now what is the meaning of the word _anabasis_? _C. is silent._ _T._ You know very well; take your time, and don’t be alarmed. Anabasis means … _C._ An ascent.