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 340 Gilbert especially on the last, again suggests Bucer. Next comes architecture. Sturm wrote that it is 'suave et ingenuum' to make plans of buildings, gardens, and villas. 59 In both his theory and practice he included those natural sciences whose value Bucer championed, and put as great emphasis as did Bucer on the logical sciences. Sturm also made use of acting, having his pupils present the comedies of Terence and Plautus. Here he is somewhat in conflict with his friend, who, as we have seen, preferred worse poetry with what he thought better moral teaching, and was willing to have plays presented in the ver- nacular, while Sturm was desirous that plays be given partly because of the practice they gave in the use of Latin. But here Sturm is thinking of boys especially chosen for their bent to scholarship, while Bucer is thinking of the whole body of youth, and even of all the people. Like Bucer, Sturm desired to be assured that the pupils remembered and could make use of what they had learned, and recommended public disputations by them. 60 In the high place they give to music, the two men are at one, and they also agree in recommending gymnastics and military training. 61 Sturm also wished education to be free to the deserving poor. 62 The desire of Bucer that the nobility should take an important place in the reform of the state is echoed by Sturm, who wrote De Educatione Principis. It seems that the two are more in agreement than might be supposed from the usual accounts of the gymnasium at Strass- burg as a place where nothing except formal Latin instruction was valued, and hence that Sturm was a man of more inclusive vision than is sometimes supposed. It is also possible that Bucer influenced the educational theories of John Milton, who translated into English and published in 1644 a considerable portion of De Regno Christi under the title of The Judgment of Martin Bucer concerning Divorce. This is generally known as the second of Milton's tracts on divorce. It includes, with omissions and condensa- 69 Classical Epistles, book 3, no. 2 (Vormbaum, p. 708). 60 De Literarum Ludis Recte Aperiendis, chaps. 18, 37 (Vormbaum, pp. 664, 676). Classical Epistles, book 3, no. 2 (Vormbaum, p. 707). 61 Classical Epistles, book 3, no. 2 (Vormbaum, p. 708). 62 De Literarum Ludis Recte Aperiendis, chap. 7 (Vormbaum, p. 658).