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[1076] _Young Gallants' Academy_, 1674, p. 44.

[1077] A little later Swift wrote that "the current opinion prevails that the study of Latin and Greek is loss of time...." (_Works_, 1841, ii. p. 291).

[1078] _A Dialogue ... concerning Education_, Miscellaneous Works, London, 1751, p. 338.

[1079] Even the universities had to give some recognition to the modern language. A Professorship of Modern History and Modern Languages was founded at both universities in 1724. Cp. Cooper, _Annals of Cambridge_, iv. 128.

[1080] "Some Thoughts," _Educational Writings of Locke_, 1912, p. 125.

[1081] The same opinions are voiced by later writers, such as Costeker, _Education of a Young n.o.bleman_, 1723, p. 18; and the author of a pamphlet _On Education_, 1734.

[1082] Evelyn, _Diary_, Dec. 6, 1681.

[1083] _The Compleat Gentleman_ (1728), ed. K. D. Bulbring, 1890.

[1084] Epilogue to _Bellamira_.

[1085] _Works_, ed. A. Wilson, Verity, London, 1888, Preface.

[1086] Le Blanc, _Lettres d'un Francais_, a la Haye, 1745, ii. p. 1.

[1087] He tells Maupertuis of the great success of his _De la Figure de la Terre_ (1738) in England, where it was awaited with impatience and received with acclamation (_Lettres_, ii. 244).

[1088] _An Essay to revive the antient Education of Gentlewomen_ (Mrs.

Makin or Mark Lewis).

[1089] French no doubt often reached grammar school boys indirectly.

Thus Charles Hoole in 1660 (_A New Discoverie of the old Art of Teaching School_) recommends the Dialogues of Du Gres for their private reading; perhaps, however, he was thinking more of the Latin than of the French part.

[1090] _Miscellaneous Works_, 1751, pp. 320-1.

[1091] _A New Method of Educating Children ..._, 1695.

[1092] Th. Sheridan, _Plan of Education_, 1769, p. 42.

[1093] M. Misson, _Memoires et Observations d'un voyageur en Angleterre_, a la Haye, 1698, p. 99.

[1094] Information supplied by J. Potter Briscoe, Esq., of Nottingham.

[1095] C. Deering, _An Historical Account of the ancient and present State of the Town of Nottingham_, Nottingham, 1751, p. 32.

[1096] He remarks on the desire to learn English expressed by several French persons he met, chiefly Huguenots.

[1097] Printed by J. D. for Jonathan Robinson at the Golden Lion, and George Wells, at the Sun in Paul's Churchyard. 8vo, pp. 224.

[1098] Pp. 17-132.

[1099] _An Essay to revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen ..._, London, 1673.

[1100] _Essay on Projects_ (1697), London, 1887, pp. 164 _sqq._

[1101] Cp. Loveday, _Letters_, 1639, p. 178.

[1102] Lewis also interviewed parents any Thursday in the afternoon between three and six o'clock, at the Bolt and Tun in Fleet Street.

[1103] _Model for a school for the better education of Youth_, and Advertis.e.m.e.nt at the end of his _Plan and Short Rules for pointing periods ..._ (_c._ 1670).

[1104] Advertis.e.m.e.nt in _An Essay on the Proper Method for forming the Man of Business_, 4th ed., 1722, pp. 44-45.

[1105] _Calendar of State Papers, Treasury Books, 1679-80_, pp. 132, 140.

APPENDICES

APPENDIX I

CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF MANUALS AND GRAMMARS FOR TEACHING FRENCH TO THE ENGLISH

I

The Middle Ages

_A. Ma.n.u.scripts_

* Indicates that there are also other ma.n.u.scripts of later date.

Henry III. (1216-1272):

_c._ 1250 Short Treatise on French Verbs (Trinity College, Cambridge, R. 3, 56).

Edward I. (1272-1307):

* Le treytyz ke moun sire Gautier de Bibelesworthe fist a ma dame Dionisie de Mounchensy pur aprise de langwage (ed. T. Wright, "Volume of Vocabularies,"

1857).

* Tractatus Orthographiae of T. H. Parisii Studentis (ed. M. K. Pope, "Modern Language Review," April 1910).

_c._ 1300 * Orthographia Gallica (ed. J. Sturzinger, "Altfranzosische Bibliothek," viii., Heilbronn, 1884).

Edward II. and Edward III. (1307-1377):

Commentaries in French on the Orthographia Gallica (ed. Sturzinger, _ut supra_).