[239] Op. cit., p. 37.

[240] Inf. xvii. 79 sqq.

[241] Purg. xxvii. 22 sqq.

[242] Homer, Od. xx. 18. Dante, Inf. xxvi. 56 sqq.; Purg. xix. 22; Par. xxvii. 83.

[243] Purg. iv. 89 sqq.

[244] Inf. xi. 10-66; xii. init.

[245] Purg. xvii. 88-139.

[246] Cf. The New Teaching, p. 40, where Prof. Adams remarks, “The postponing of grammar studies to a comparatively late stage in school life is one of the most striking recognitions of the elementary psychological truths that underlie the principles of teaching.”

[247] Purg. xviii. esp. 40-43.

[248] Acts i. 1.