ADVERTISEMENT. HE Schoolmaster of Roger Afcham has a twofold claim upon the attention of Scholars, befide the intereft which belongs to it as an early example of claffical English profe. It fets forth in a clear and lively manner the only found method of acquiring a dead language; a method which is fo far from being univerfally adopted amongst us, that Afcham's denunciation of the authors of Latines,'-thofe treacherous middlemen who push forward to introduce' the Schoolboy to the claffical authors,—is now more needed than ever. But the main attraction of the book is the picture which it prefents of the state of learning, and incidentally of life and manners, in England at the era of the Re |