Sulpitii Examen de octo partibus orationis. Carmen Iuuenile. De declinatione nominum orthoclitorum. ---------------------- heteroclitorum. De nominibus heteroclitis. De generibus nominum. De verbis defectiuis. De præteritis verborum. De supinis ----------. De regimine et constructione dictionum Libellus. De componendis ornandisq; epistolis. De Carminibus. De quantitate syllabarum. De A, E, &c. in primis syllabis. ---------------- mediis ----. De ultimis syllabis. De Carminibus decoro [_sic_] &c. Donati de figuris opusculum. De latinarum dictionum recta scriptura. De grecarum dictionum orthographia. De ratione dipthongangi. Ascensii de orthographia carmina. Vocabulorum interpretatio. The _Carmen Juvenile_, inserted here and in the antecedent issues, is the poem better known as _Stans Puer ad Mensam_, and in its English dress by Lydgate. Mr. Blades tells us that the _editio princeps_ of the Latin poem appeared in 1483, and that Caxton printed Lydgate's English one at an anterior date. Lydgate, however, had been dead many years when his production saw the light in type, and as he could scarcely have translated the piece from Sulpicius, the probability seems to be that both resorted to a pre-existent original, which the Englishman rendered into his own tongue, and the foreign grammarian adopted or modernised. A comparison of the English text with that given in the work of Sulpicius shews considerable variations; the latter version is here and there more outspoken and blunt in its language than the paraphrase of the good Monk of Bury St. Edmunds. It is accompanied by a running gloss by the learned Ascensius; and although the book was ostensibly designed for the use of students, the contractions are unusually troublesome, and many of the proper names are exhibited in an orthography at any rate rather peculiar. The god whose special province was the management of the solar orb is introduced as _formosus appollo_. His substitution of _Vergilius_ as the name of the Latin poet is so far not remarkable, inasmuch as Polydore Vergil of Urbino appears always to have spelled his name so, and in the edition of Virgil by Aldus, 1501, the author is called _Vergilius_. I am afraid that if I were to furnish a specimen of the contractions, a modern typographer would be puzzled to reproduce it with the desirable exactitude. III. When one turns over the leaves of a volume of this kind, and sees the way in which the avenue to learning and knowledge was hampered by pedantic and ignorant instructors, it seems marvellous, not that the spread of education was so slow and partial, but that so many scholars should have emerged from such a process.