Some thoughts on Bradley's Arnold Latin Prose Composition. It's a near perfect textbook. The introduction is a concise and convenient grammar reference. Every rule mastered is immediately useful for reading comprehension. Every lesson alone is worth the price of the book, especially those on relative pronouns and the dative case. The exercise questions are hard, but never impossible. If you get one wrong you can be sure you didn't master a previous lesson, or failed to use the book properly, which is itself a course in patience and attention to detail. The introduction, rules, footnotes, glossary, and index together create a satisfying map that always guides you to what you need for the exercises provided you're careful. Granted, all these compliments should be the bar for passable, but because every modern textbook I pick up is a cluttered, unwieldy piece of shit, Bradley's Arnold stands out. As for it being just "near" perfect, I blame neither Arnold nor Bradley but rather the publisher, who chose a razor-sharp cardboard for the cover material, and the editor of the modern edition, who made quite a few typos and formatting errors and inconsistently Americanized the British English of the original. I would have been fine with it being fully American or fully British English, but as is it's a half-assed hybrid. These minor complaints aside, I can't recommend it enough: try it if you were considering it.