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Cambridge:

PRINTED BY C. J. CLAY, M.A.

AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

EDITED AFTER KARL HALM,

WITH CORRECTIONS AND LARGE ADDITIONS,

BY

JOHN E. B. MAYOR, M.A.
FELLOW OF ST JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

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And therefore, we do not contemne Rewles, but we gladlie

teach Rewles; and teach them, more plainlie, sensiblie, and orderlie, than they be commonlie taught in common Scholes. For whan the Master shall compare Tullies booke with his Scholers translation, let the Master, at the first, lead and teach his Scholer, to joyne the Rewles of his Grammer booke, with the examples of his present lesson, untill the Scholer, by him selfe, be hable to fetch out of his Grammer, everie Rewle, for everie example: So, as the Grammer booke be ever in the Scholers hand, and also used of him, as a Dictionarie, for everie present use. This is a lively and perfite waie of teaching of Rewles: where the common waie, used in common Scholes, to read the Grammer alone by it selfe, is tedious for the Master, hard for the Scholer, colde and uncomfortable for them bothe.

The Scholemaster, by Roger Ascham.

London, 1863. pp. 4, 5.

TO THE REV.

HENRY WHITEHEAD MOSS,

HEAD-MASTER OF SHREWSBURY SCHOOL.

MY DEAR Moss,

I seize the first opportunity of expressing at once loyalty to our common school, and also the conviction that the character won for it by bishop Butler and professor Kennedy will be fully maintained under your rule. We in college who taught with you, or learnt from you, know how much St John's owes to your taste and accurate scholarship, and to the lively interest which you take in the progress of each individual pupil; and we have already gathered the firstfruits of your new labours.

The names of Aristophanes, Aristotle, Lucretius, Shakspeare, Thucydides, remind the world that Cambridge Salopians are true to the traditions of their youth; the admirable edition of Plato's Apology, the legacy of the lamented Riddell, shews that at Oxford also some are not ashamed to confess that grammatical

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exactness is the one firm foundation of philosophical and historical criticism.

Works like these push forward the limits of scholarship; this little primer seeks a more modest corner on your shelves, content if you, and other friends and pupils, find your toil in any degree lightened by its use.

Believe me to be,

My dear Moss,

Ever very truly yours,

CAMBRIDGE, 1 May, 1868.

JOHN E. B. MAYOR:

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