Part 9 (2/2)

Robertson applauds, in his dedication to Dr Longlond, Bishop of Lincoln, himself a man of letters, the system of Lily, and testifies to the excellent way in which the boys at Oxford prospered under his educational _regimen_ But, nevertheless, he does not conceal his notion and expectation of i on his master; and indeed there is no doubt that we have here the earliest clear approach to our h the whole is in Latin, except certain quotations and names in Greek, as he compares the practice of the Greek poets with that of the Romans, much as Robert Etienne a little later pointed out the conforical parallels had become fashi+onable

In his section on _Derivatives_ Robertson has soist may form his own conclusions This is a specimen:--

”Vox uocis, a voco Iucundus a iuuo

Lex legis, a lego Iunior a iuuenis

Rex regis, a rego Mobilis a moueo

Sedes a sedeo Humanus ab homo

Iumentum a iuuo Vomer a uomo

Fomes a foueo Pedor a pede”

Of the miscellaneous labourers in this field Robertson was one of the most conspicuous; nor did his naular Verbs and Nouns_ were printed with Lily's _Rules_ at least as late as the reign of James I

It is out of my power to cross the boundary-line of conjecture when I offer the opinion that the Oxford edalen staff

II But there was no lack of instruland, whatever the iht be There were, besides the ordinary pedagogue, whose accoe of his own country, writing, and arithmetic, professors for French, Italian, and Dutch, and ive instruction in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew The Geruese do not seem to have been much cultivated down to a comparatively recent date, which is the more extraordinary since our intercourse with all those countries was constant frolish versions of the Spanish grammars of Anthonio de Corro and Cesare Oudin made in the tiinal production by Leen, entitled, _The Key into the Spanish Tongue_ But these were assuredly never used as ordinary school-books, and were rather designed as manuals for travellers and literary students; and the sauese Dictionary and Grammar of 1701, which is framed on a scale hardly adapted for the require

Yet at the same time these, and many more like the _Dutch Tutor_, the _Nether-Dutch Academy_, and so forth, were of eminent service in private tuition and select classes, where a pupil was placed with a coach for some special object, or to corammes

Moreover, it is not to be overlooked that in the polyglot vocabulary and phrase-book the student, either with or without the aid of a tutor, possessed in fore of languages for conversational and commercial purposes; and these works soues ee of one of them, published at Antwerp in 1576, expressly intimates its utility to all merchants; and a second of rather earlier date (1548) is specified as a book highly necessary to everybody desirous of learning the languages euese, Flemish, German, and Latin--a relot

But these helps were of course outside the schoolroom, and were called into requisition chiefly by individuals whose vocations took then terms more or less imperative; and undoubtedly our extensive mercantile and diplomatic relations with all parts of the world made this class of supplementary instruction a livelihood for a very nuical undertakings of the kind, the , a merchant of London, who in 1614 published a translation of soues in the Malay dialect, from a book coassy; and he inforht have occasion to travel to the East Indies

II Shakespear, in his conception of HOLOFERNES in ”Love's Labour's Lost,”

is supposed to have taken hints froners who settled in London in his ties, the celebrated JOHN FLORIO, who is best known as the first English translator of Montaigne, but who produced a good deal of useful professional work, and became intimate with many of the literary men of his day We cannot be absolutely sure that Florio sat for Holofernes; but at any rate the dramatist has depicted in that character in a ish mannerist, as he knew and saw hireat industrial benefactions, abounded with private schools and with tutors for special objects Some of them were authors, not only of school-books for the use of their own pupils, but of translations fron writers; and they had their quarters in localities long since abandoned to other occupations, such as Bow Lane, Mugwell or Monkwell Street, Lothbury Garden, and St Paul's Churchyard, where accommodation was once readily procurable at rents coinally presided over similar establishments in the provinces, and had come up to town, no doubt, from ambitious motives

Two of them, in Primers which they published in 1682 and 1688, when such distinctions were important, call their volumes the _Protestant School_ and the _Protestant Schoolmaster_, in order to reassure parents, who distrusted Papists and Jacobites A few years before, Nathaniel Strong, dating from the Hand and Pen, in Red-Cross Alley, on Great Tower Hill, launched what he souardedly christened _The Perfect Schoolmaster_ This part of the metropolis was at that time rather thickly soith teachers of all kinds; as you drew nearer to Wapping, the schools of geography and navigation became more conspicuous It was about the period when Mr Secretary Pepys was residing in Hart Street

In connection with these private schools on the east side of London, for the special advantage of those who desired to e, naval, military, or other technical career, there is a very characteristic and suggestive advertiseical tract published by him in 1683, where he states that he professes and teaches at his house on the east side of Spitalfields, opposite Dorset Street, next door to a glazier's, not ono, fortification, and gunnery, but ASTROLOGY _in all its parts_; which appears to be an uncustomary combination, and to bespeak a separate class or departrowth and development from the judicial astronomy of the early Oxford schoolmen, had been a source of controversy since the ti century through the exertions of several indefatigable advocates and writers, of whoe, and John Gadbury were thethe Civil War, is said to have been consulted by both political parties; and he published a s to see into futurity

III There was a host of rival authors, soeneral treatises in their hand, others special branches of the subject handled in a new fashi+on, fro fir Edward the Sixth's Graraph on Particles in 1655; it is the only work by which he is at present remembered; and it occasioned the joke that his epitaph should be: _Here lie Walker's Particles_