GRAMMARS, ETC., FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
(Vol. ix., p. 8.)
St. Mary's College, Winchester (publisher, D. Nutt).—Novum Florilegium Poeticum; Carmina quædam elegantissima; De Diis et Heroibus poeticis libellus; Homeri Ilias (Heyne) et Odysseæ; Interpretatio Poikiles Istorias; Ovidii Fasti, libri vi.; Ποικιλη Ιστορια; Selectæ Historiæ ex Cæsare, Justino et Floro; Notes on the Diatessaron, by the Rev. Frederic Wickham, now Second Master; Græcæ Grammatices Rudimenta, by Bishop Wordsworth, late Second Master; Greek and Latin Delectus, by the Rev. H. C. Adams, late Commoner Tutor.
Of Eton books there were in use the Latin and Greek Grammars; Pindar's Olympian and Pythian Odes; Scriptores Græci et Romani. A complete list of Eton and Westminster school-books will be found in the London Catalogue, which enrols Vidæ de Arte Poeticâ; Trapp's Prælectiones Poetica, and the Rise, &c. of Poetry and Fine Arts in Ancient Rome, as Winchester school-books.
In 1512, Winchester and Eton had a common grammar. Hugh Lloyd, D.C.L., Head Master, A.D. 1580-1602, wrote Dictata and Phrases Elegantiores for the use of the school. William Horman, M.A., Head Master of Winchester, 1495-1502, and Eton, 1489-1495, wrote Vulgaria puerorum.
Hugh Robinson, D.D., Head Master, wrote Prayers and Latin Phrases for the school. It is almost superfluous to name Bishop Ken's Manual for Winchester Scholars, edited by Dr. Moberly, the present excellent Head Master, some years since.
Mackenzie Walcott, M.A.
In pursuance of the hint of Mr. P. H. Fisher, I will describe an old school-book in my possession, which is bound up with Godwyn's Romanæ Historicæ Anthologia. It contains, 1. Preces; 2. Grammaticalia quædam; 3. Rhetorica brevis, and was printed at Oxford in 1616 by Joseph Barnes. Though there is nothing in the title-page to indicate that it was for the use of Winchester College, this sufficiently appears from the "Thanksgiving for William of Wiccham" in the grace after dinner, and also from the insertion of William of Wykeham's arms before the Rhetorica brevis. It bears abundant marks of having been used in the school, and contains, on the blank pages with which it was furnished, several MS. Wykehamical memoranda, some of them well known, and others,
perhaps, the exercises of the original owner. All are in Latin, except the following verses, which I transcribe:
"On Queene Anne, Queene of the Scots.
March with his winds hath strooke a cedar tall,
And morning April weeps the cedar's fall,
And May intends noe flowers her month shall bring,
Since shee must lose the flower of all the spring;
Thus March's winds have caused April showers,
And yet sad May must lose her flower of flowers."
C. W. B.