The aim of this book is to enable the pupil to enjoy Greek, both the reading of it and the writing of it, as soon as possible. An attempt is made to introduce Grammar and Syntax in a comprehensible· sequence, chapter by chapter; Greek precedes English both in the examples and in the exercises. Continuous translation is begun as soon as sufficient grammatical forms have been mastered ; the pieces are all made-up in the sense that the exact words of the original authors have often had to be altered, but they are original in the sense that, with one exception, they have been drawn and adapted from the actual texts of Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon. The limitations imposed by the pupil's kn.owledge of Grammar and Syntax made it impossible to set down the episodes in chronological order, but for the beginner to reach some of the best stories after a few months' work may be felt as a compensation for this.