rmally
approved by the Board of Education in February 1907.

See W.H. Woodward, _Studies in Education during the Age of the
Renaissance_ (1906), chap. xiii.; Acland and Llewellin Smith, _Studies
in Secondary Education_, with introduction by James Bryce (1892);
_Essays on a Liberal Education_, ed. F.W. Farrar (1867); R.C. Jebb,
"Humanism in Education," Romanes Lecture of 1899, reprinted with other
lectures on cognate subjects in _Essays and Addresses_ (1907); Foster
Watson, _The Curriculum and Practice of the English Grammar Schools up
to 1660_ (1908); "Greek at Oxford," by a Resident, in _The Times_
(December 27, 1904); _Cambridge University Reporter_ (November 11 and
December 17, 1904); _British Association Report on Curricula of
Secondary Schools_ (with an independent paper by Professor Armstrong
on "The Teaching of Classics"), (December 1907); W.H.D. Rouse in _The
Year's Work in Classical Studies_ (1907 and 1908), chap. i.; J.P.
Postgate, _How to pronounce Latin_ (Appendix B, on "Recent Progress"),
(1907). For further bibliographical details see pp. 875-890 of Dr Karl
Breul's "Grossbritannien" in Baumeister's _Handbuch_, I. ii. 737-892
(Munich, 1897).

France.

2. In _France_ it was mainly with a view to promoting the study of Greek
that the corporation of Royal Readers was founded by Francis I. in 1530
at the prompting of Budaeus. In the university of Paris, which was
originally opposed to this innovation, the statutes of 1598 prescribed
the study of Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, Theocritus, Plato, Demosthenes and
Isocrates (as well as the principal Latin classics), and required the
production of three exercises in Greek or Latin in each week.

Textbooks.

From the middle of the 16th century the elements of Latin were generally
learned from unattractive abridgments of the grammar of the Flemish
scholar, van Pauteren or Despautere (d. 1520), which, in its original
folio editions of 1537-1538, was an excellent work. The unhappy lot of
those who were compelled to learn their Latin from the current
abridgments was lamented by a Port-Royalist in a striking passage
describing the gloomy forest of _le pays de Despautere_ (Guyot, quoted
in Sainte-Beuve's _Port-Royal_, iii. 429). The first Latin grammar
written in French was that of Pere de Condren of the _Oratoire_ (c.
1642), which was followed by the Port-Royal _Methode latine_ of Claude
Lancelot (1644), and by the grammar composed