[30] See in this connection Tarde’s Laws of imitation. New York, 1900.
[31] For a more detailed account of Comenius’ views on the religious education of children [see] the following chapter on the School of infancy.
[32] Zur Bückerkunde des Comenius. Monatshefte der Comenius-Gesellschaft. 1892. Vol. I., pp. 19–53.
[33] School of infancy: an essay on the education of youth during the first six years, by John Amos Comenius. To which is prefixed a sketch of the life of the author. London, 1858. pp. 168 + 75.
[34] To except Locke no reformer before Comenius’ time has set forth the need of physical training with anything like the clearness and fulness of the School of infancy. See Some thoughts concerning education by John Locke. Edited with introduction and notes by R. H. Quick. London, 1884. pp. 240.
[35] Note the harmony of this conception of play with the modern theories of Professor Karl Groos in his Play of animals (New York, 1898, pp. 341) and in his Spiele der Menschen (Jena, 1899, pp. 538).
[36] I am indebted to Dr. William T. Harris for the use of the copy of the Janua belonging to the library of the Bureau of Education at Washington. It is a handsome Elzevir, bound in vellum, and published at Amsterdam in 1661. It contains 863 pages, 511 of which are given to the thousand parallel sentences in the five languages (Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, and German), in which the book appears. The remaining 352 pages are given to the lexicon-vocabularies in the different languages.
[37] The Janua has lately been brought out in France in inexpensive form by Professor A. C. Vernier of the College of Autun. (Autun, 1899. pp. 350.)
[38] The text-books of Comenius. Proceedings of the National Educational Association for 1892. pp. 712–723.
[39] For a full account of Francke’s life and work see A. H. Francke’s Pädagogische Schriften. Nebst einer Darstellung seines Lebens und seiner Stiftungen. Herausgeg. von G. Kramer. Langensalza, 1876.