This is a fairly straightforward 75pp biography (excluding the notes) of WHD Rouse - Victorian/Edwardian classicist and headmaster of the Perse School in Cambridge (1902-28). He was a zealous advocate of the learning Latin and Greek through conversational usage and earned a reputation as a progressive pedagogue.
Stray has gone on to write and edit numerous articles/books on the way classics was studied and taught from the Victorian period to the present day. He sets Rouse in the context of the education reforms from the 1860s onwards - when people began to wonder why we had such an obsession with dead languages. The spoken conversation system was its own response to this issue (and Rouse rang on that bell pretty hard!).
It's a short biography and he sketches in most of the points about the context and the reforms rather than being very specific. But Stray had really driven the interest in this kind of fairly-recent history of the classics discipline. Much work has been done since - again with him as an active agent. So, it is possible to round out much more detail. I got onto this book because I had enjoyed John Henderson's Oxford Reds (2005) and he mentioned this book.
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