  - Abilities of children differ, 30, 60.
- Abstract ideas, 23, 112-115.
- Acting out poems, 94.
- Addison, De Coverley Papers, 128, 138, 146-150;
- Spectator, 146, 223.
- Analysis vs. synthesis, 21.
- Art, literature an, 53;
- not to be translated into words, 2;
- purpose of, 1, 73.
- Bach, Passion Music, 116.
- Beethoven, 53;
- Ninth Symphony, 116.
- Biography, literary, 222-226.
- Blake, William, quoted, 31;
- The Tiger, 93, 96-108.
- Bronson, W. C., Voluntary Reading, 228, 230.
- Brown, Dr. John, quoted, 79.
- Browning, 72, 115, 239;
- How they Brought the Good News, 113;
- The Lost Leader, 114.
- Burke, 221;
- Speech on Conciliation, 37, 65, 138-146.
- Byron, Destruction of Sennacherib, 133, 215.
- Carlyle, Burns, 213.
- Chaucer, 225, 239.
- Children, abilities differ, 30, 60;
- at disadvantage, 118;
- comply mechanically, 93;
- conceal feeling, 85;
- do not know how to study, 46-48;
- know when bored, 52;
- learn life by living, 19;
- must be taught in own language, 68;
- must do own work, 58;
- must form estimates, 70;
- not affected by preaching, 18;
- puzzled by literature, 49;
- responsive to metrical effects, 117;
- skip morals, 89;
- their world, 18, 79;
- too much demanded of, 45;
- understand only through personal experience, 15, 67.
- Coleridge, 37, 40, 57, 69, 76, 77, 83, 85, 118, 124, 202;
- false explanations of words in, 63;
- Miss Cook on, 128;
- note on, 32;
- study of, 165-192.
- Machiavellus, 32.
- Memorizing, 191.
- Merchant of Venice, 6, 81, 118.
- Metrical effects, 116;
- beyond ordinary students, 186;
- children susceptible to, 117;
- in Evangeline, 43;
- relation to character, 119;
- study of, 94;
- vs. intellectual content, 216.
- Middleton, Witch, 32.
- Milton, 15, 53, 117, 220, 225;
- Comus, 34, 85, 117, 228;
- Il Penseroso, 34, 41, 190;
- L'Allegro, 34, 41, 190;
- Lycidas, 34, 117;
- Paradise Lost, 123, 127, 131, 228.
- Milton, Macaulay's, 35, 36, 212, 213.
- Moral, drawn by children, 129;
- not to be drawn by teacher, 71-73, 163, 164, 198;
- skipped by children, 89.
- North, Plutarch's Lives, 170.
- Notes, 75, 136;
- to be studied first, 76.
- Novel, study of, 152-164.
- Œdipus, 202.
- Oral recitation, 74, 109-120;
- examinational,
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