ROGER ASCHAM, author of “The Schoolmaster,” and one of the greatest classical scholars of England, was born at Kirby Wiske in Yorkshire in 1515. He graduated at Cambridge in 1536, and in 1548 became tutor to the Princess Elizabeth. He is sometimes called the “Father of English Prose,” because of the preference he showed for it at a time when Latin was the universal language of scholarship. His “Toxophilus,” a treatise on archery, in dialogue form, is frequently quoted to illustrate the prose English of his time, but it does not compare in interest with the quaint and varied learning of “The Schoolmaster.” Ascham died at London, December 30th, 1568.