ABSTRACT
It is characteristic of Brinsley that he devotes more pains and more space to the exposition of the method of teaching pupils to construe the ‘lower’ than the ‘higher’ authors, for he believes that the ‘grammatical translation’ · method as pursued in the early stages will become a habit in the pupil so that he will unconsciously bring it to bear on the ‘higher authors.’ ‘Through their perfect knowledge and continual practice of the rule of construing and by that help of the reading in the lower Authors: I mean the help of the matter, words and phrase which they are well acquainted with, and of being able to cast the words into the natural order—they will then be able to do very much in construing any ordinary author of themselves, ex tempore.’
