Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters A Contribution to the History of Educational Development in Great Britain

So we see that, prior to the visit of Erasmus to us at the end of the fifteenth century, there were already polite letter-writers current, and current, too, as school-books. Era...

This was in 1567. In the Preface very just stress is laid on the mischief proceeding from what is termed "a diversity of Grammars," and from different schoolmasters adopting dif...

II. Claude Desainliens, who transformed himself into _Claudius Holy-Band_ or _Hollyband_, and who seems in his earlier days to have had quarters over or adjoining the sign of th...

From a woodcut on the back of the title-page of a _Grammatica Initialis_, or Elementary Grammar, 1509, we form a conclusion as to the ancient Continental method of instruction....

The persons who were selected to sit on these committees for the several urban and provincial districts included many God-fearers of the prevailing type; but at the same time th...

Hayne supplies a highly interesting survey of the progress and development of this branch of literature and learning in former days, and some of the later attempts made with a v...

"To all Fathers of NOBLE FAMILIES and Lovers of VERTUE: Sir Balthazar Gerbier desires once more that the Publique may be pleased to take notice of his great labours and indeavou...

He had sold the press at the desire of the Company for £300 less than the cost; and this was by no means the full extent of his sacrifices and misfortunes. For he gives his prin...

III. It is said to have been John Rightwise, second head-master of St. Paul's, and son-in-law of Lily, who introduced into his predecessor's book the _Propria quæ Maribus_ and _...

Two years subsequently to the appearance of his _Vulgaria_, Horman involved himself in a literary controversy with Whittinton in consequence of an attack which he had made on th...

=Whan there cometh a verbe after Teretius. quidna sum es fui without a relatyve incepturus es. or a coniunccyon yf it be of the actyue sygnyfycacyon it shall be Tere. uxor tibi...

This volume comprises a full description of about 6000 Early English books from the books themselves. It is a sequel and companion to No. 4. See also No. 6 _infrâ_.

This didactic treatise is additionally interesting to the English student from its relationship, in the way of likely literary ancestry, to the subsequent compilations of a cogn...

The early English educational books produced by foreign printers were not quite invariably so wide of the mark in an idiomatic respect. Some of them were doubtless read in proof...

[1] There is some sort of evidence that the Grammar of Perottus was in demand here in England as a work of reference and instruction; for I find it in the interesting account-bo...