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NOTE ON THE FRONTISPIECE In this picture the schoolboy is .seen arriving with his satchel and being presented with a hornbook by Nieostrata, the Latin muse Carmentis, who changed the Greek alphabet into the Latin. She admits him by the key of cemgruita* to the House of Wisdom (" Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars," Proverbs Ik. 1). In the lowest 6tory he begins hia course in Donatus under a Bachelor of Arts armed with the birch in the next he is promoted to Priscian. Then follow the other subjects of the Trimum and the Quadriviwm, each subject being represented by its chief exponent-logic by Aristotle, arithmetic by Boethius, geometry by Euclid, etc, Ptolemy, the philosopher, who represents astronomy, 19 confused with the kings of the same name. Pliny and Seneca represent the more advanced study of physical and of moral science respectively, and the edifice is crowned by Theology, the long and arduous course for which followed that of the Arts. Its
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