Arlo Bates

CONTENTS

I THE PROBLEM

II THE CONDITIONS

III SOME DIFFICULTIES

IV OTHER OBSTACLES

V FOUNDATIONS OF WORK.

VI PRELIMINARY WORK

VII THE INSPIRATIONAL USE OF LITERATURE

VIII AN ILLUSTRATION

IX EDUCATIONAL

X EXAMINATIONAL

XI THE STUDY OF PROSE

XII THE STUDY OF THE NOVEL

XIII THE STUDY OF "MACBETH"

XIV CRITICISM

XV LITERARY WORKMANSHIP

XVI LITERARY BIOGRAPHY

XVII VOLUNTARY READING

XVIII IN GENERAL

INDEX

TALKS ON TEACHING
LITERATURE

TALKS ON TEACHING
LITERATURE

BY
ARLO BATES

Riverside Press colophon

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1906

COPYRIGHT 1906 BY ARLO BATES
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published October 1906

These Talks are founded upon lectures delivered before the Summer School of the University of Illinois in June, 1905. The interest which was shown in the subject and in the views expressed encouraged me to state rather more elaborately and in book form what I felt in regard to a matter which is certainly of great importance, and concerning which so many teachers are in doubt. I wish here to express my obligation to Assistant-Professor Henry G. Pearson, who has very kindly gone over the manuscript, and to whom I am indebted for suggestions of great value.