PREFACE. WHATEVER variety of opinion may exist as to the absolute merits of Aldrich's Logic, there are many considerations which recommend a new edition of that work, as by far the most convenient mode of supplying an acknowledged deficiency in the studies of the University. The majority of Teachers will probably agree with me in regarding the dry skeleton of a Latin Manual as better adapted to the discipline of beginners than any of the more elegant, but somewhat diluted, Essays of the present day: to which must be added the consideration, that Latin is the original language of many of the technicalities of the subject, which cannot be so conveniently learned through the medium of a translation. But among the Latin Compendia, that of Aldrich has long reigned almost exclusively in Oxford; nor would it be easy to select any rival manual of such decided superiority as to counterbalance the evils necessarily attendant on all violent changes in a longestablished system. Deficient as the work unde b |