[859] An advertisement ... touching school books, 1659.
[860] An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen, London, 1673 (by Mrs. Makin or Mark Lewis).
[861] G. Miège, A New French Grammar, 1678, p. 377.
[862] Appeale to Truth, 1622, p. 41.
[863] Petition to the High Court of Parliament, in behalf of auncient and authentique Authours, for the universall and perpetuall good of every man, 1623.
[864] Essais, liv. i., ch. xxv.
[865] Cp. The Brain Breaker's Breaker, or the Apologie of Th. Grantham for his Method of Teaching, 1644.
[866] The Examination of Academies, wherein is discussed ... the Matter, Method and Customes of Academick and Scholastick Learning, and the insufficiency thereof discovered and laid open, 1653, p. 21.
[867] Thus Sir Wm. Petty, in his Advice to S. Hartlib for the advancement of some particular parts of learning (1648), argues that languages should be taught by "incomparably more easy wayes then are now usuall." An anonymous "Lover of his Nation" proposed that children should learn Latin as they do English, by having no other language within their hearing for two years; and similarly with other languages (Watson, Modern Subjects, p. 482). Ch. Hoole, teacher at a private grammar school in London, also proposes that Latin should be learnt by speaking and hearing it spoken, and attributes the unsatisfactory knowledge of the language to the too frequent use of English in schools (New Discoverie of the old art of Teaching Schooll, 1660). The French teacher Miège suggests that Latin should be taught in special schools, on the same lines as French was taught in the French ones (French Grammar, 1678). In 1685 was published The Way of Teaching the Latin Tongue by use to those that have already learn'd their Mother Tongue; and in 1669 had appeared a work translated from the French, called An Examen of the Way of Teaching the Latine Tongue to little children by use alone. Among other publications of similar import are: An Essay on Education, showing how Latin, Greek, and other Languages may be learn'd more easily, quickly and perfectly than they commonly are, 1711; and An Essay upon the education of youth in Grammar Schools in which the Vulgar Method of Teaching is examined, and a new one proposed for the more easy and speedy training up of Youth, to the knowledge of the Learned Languages ..., by J. Clarke, Master of the Public Grammar School in Hull (London, 1720).
[868] Right Teaching of Useful Knowledge to fit scholars for some honest Profession, London, 1649, p. 186.