Excerpt from The Shorter Aeneid: Selected and Arranged With Brief Notes

The present type. The question has after all to be considered not from the standpoint of the feelings of the mature student, but from that of the learner, who has to be led to and through the beauties of ancient literature. And, if for a moment I may speak for myself, I can say with confidence that I should have attained far earlier to a real love and appreciation of the Aeneid, had I studied it in a book like the present instead of reading isolated books out of their logical order, and without reference to their place in the poem as a whole. It is rash to speak for others, but from the many criticisms I have heard, both from contemporaries and pupils, I cannot help feeling that such also would have been true of them.

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