A few words concerning the setting and the educational significance of this treatise are desirable by way of introduction. The Dialógus Ciceronianus (1528) is the one important technical educational treatise of Erasmus, that has never appeared in an English form. Even in the original, it has had few reprints and none of these are of recent date. His De Ratione Studii, and the treatise De Pueris Statim ac Liberaliter Instituendis are given in English by Professor Woodward in his Erasmus Concerning Education* the Colloquies have appeared in several forms, most completely in the Bailey edition ;2 his letters, which contain much discussion of direct educational value, are adequately represented in the recent Nichols edition;5 but the Dialógus Ciceronianus, his most extensive treatise on an educational subject as it demanded attention in his own day, has not been deemed of sufficient interest to the student of education to justify a translation. In the broad signifi
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