The authors of THE ROAD TO LATIN have endeavored to present in this book a method of teaching Latin that is a golden mean between the old and formal method of teaching grammar, and the new and apparently haphazard method , recently developed , of teaching reading . The assumption that abundant reading with a superficial study of grammar, mainly for recognition, can ever result in a real power to read Latin has been proved to be unsound. For many teachers, in their effort to make Latin interesting to their pupils, have forgotten that the average pupil has to feel a power of achievement, a mastery of what he is doing, in order to be interested and to gain mental satisfaction.