[Footnote 25: _Correspondence of Hartlib, Haak, Oldenburg, and others of the founders of the Royal Society with Governor Winthrop of Connecticut, 1661–1672._ With an introduction and notes by Robert C. Winthrop. Boston, 1878.] [Footnote 26: For further discussion of the question see my article, “Was Comenius called to the presidency of Harvard?” in the _Educational Review_, November, 1896, Vol. XII, pp. 378–382, and the article by Mr. James H. Blodgett in the same Review for November, 1898, Vol. XVI, pp. 390–393; also the closing chapter in Professor Hanus’ _Educational aims and educational values_ (New York, 1899), pp. 206–211.] [Footnote 27: For an excellent discussion of the meaning of infancy see Professor John Fiske’s _Excursions of an evolutionist_ (Boston, 1896), pp. 306–319, and Professor Nicholas Murray Butler’s _Meaning of education_ (New York, 1898), pp. 3–34.] [Footnote 28: Permanent influence of Comenius, _Educational Review_, March, 1892. Vol. III, pp. 226–236.] [Footnote 29: The _Orbis pictus_, the first child’s picture-book, was subsequently prepared to meet this need.] [Footnote 30: See in this connection Tarde’s _Laws of imitation_. New York, 1900.] [Footnote 31: For a more detailed account of Comenius’ views on the religious education of children see the following chapter on the _School of infancy_.] [Footnote 32: Zur Bückerkunde des Comenius. _Monatshefte der Comenius-Gesellschaft._ 1892. Vol. I., pp. 19–53.] [Footnote 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.] [Footnote 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.] [Footnote 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).] [Footnote 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.] [Footnote 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.)] [Footnote 38: The text-books of Comenius. Proceedings of the National Educational Association for 1892. pp. 712–723.]