In connection with Magdalen School, we see in the account-book of John Dorne, Oxford bookseller, for 1520, the class and range of literature which a dealer in those days found saleable. Among the strictly grammatical books occur the _A. B. C._ and the _Boys' Primer_; the productions, with which we are already familiar, of Whittinton, Stanbridge, Erasmus, Cicero, Terence, and Lucian, interspersed with some of the Fathers, service-books of the Church, classical authors of a less popular type, such as Lucan, Cornelius Nepos, and Pomponius Mela; and more or less abstruse treatises on logic, rhetoric, and theology. On the other hand, we have prognostications in English, almanacs, _Robin Hood_, the _Nutbrown Maid_, the _Squire of Low Degree_, _Sir Isumbras_, _Robert the Devil_, and ballads. There are, besides, the _Sermon of the Boy-Bishop_, the _Book of Cookery_, the _Book of Carving_, and an Anglo-French vocabulary. But I do not enter into these details. It was merely my intention to peep in at the shop, and see what a bookseller at one of the Universities nearly four centuries ago had in the way of school-literature. Perhaps next to the _A. B. C._ and the primers, the educational works of Erasmus were in greatest demand. This old ledger has a sort of living value, inasmuch as it carries us back with it to the very Oxford of the first race of teachers and grammarians, about whom I write. All of them, except perchance Anniquil, must have known Dorne and had transactions with him; and here is his ledger, upon which the eyes of some of them may have rested, still preserved, with its record of stock in hand--new copies damp from the printer, or remainders of former purchases, now scarcely extant, or, if so, shorn of their coeval glory by the schoolboy's thumb or the binder's knife. VI. Auxiliary books--_Vulgaria_ of Terence--His Comedies printed in 1497--Some of them popular in schools--HORACE--CICERO--His _Offices_ and _Old Age_ translated by Whittinton--VIRGIL--OVID--Specimens of Whittinton's Cicero--The school Cato--Notices of other works designed or employed for educational purposes. I. There is a class of books which, while they were not strictly intended for use in the preparation of the ordinary course of lessons, were most undoubtedly brought into constant requisition, at least by the higher forms or divisions, as aids to a familiarity with the dead languages, and eventually those of the Continent. The earliest and one of the most influential of these was the _Vulgaria_ of Terence. As far back as the reign of Edward IV., I find it annexed to the _Compendium Grammaticæ_ of Johannes Anniquil, printed at Oxford about 1483; and at least three other editions of it exist. It is on the interlinear plan, as the following extract will serve to indicate:-- "Here must I abyde allone this ij dayes =Biduus hic manendū; est mihi soli.=