Excerpt from Studies in the History of Classical Teaching: Irish and Continental, 1500-1700
The preparation of the first part of this volume was rendered possible for the writer by the discovery at Madrid, in 1907, of a complete copy of the Janua Linguarum, issued in 1611 at Salamanca by the Irish Jesuits who then directed the College of their nation in that University. Expectation of such good fortune had scarcely existed, in face of the positive assertion of Hervas, made about 1700, that only two copies of the original text were known to exist.
The loan of this Madrid copy has provided a sure basis for comparative research into its history and influence as a schoolbook, and the part it played in the history of educational reforms during the century in which it was published. The original preface would alone have sufficed to found a claim on behalf of William Bathe for a place among the more valuable and practical writers on the practice of education. Among such authors, Ascham holds a distinctive and honourable place. Bathe would seem to have as much title to recognition in the History of Education as his predecessor among the instructors of Queen Elizabeth.
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