GROUP SIX 246 _Elizabeth Barrett Browning_ _Phoebe Cary_ _Alice Cary_ _Lucy Larcom_ _Felicia Hemans_ _George Eliot_ _Jean Ingelow_ GROUP SEVEN 294 _Robert Burns_ _Robert Southey_ _William Cowper_ _Lord Byron_ _John Keats_ _Percy Bysshe Shelley_ _Samuel Taylor Coleridge_ GROUP EIGHT 342 _Rudyard Kipling_ _Robert Louis Stevenson_ _Paul Du Chaillu_ _Thomas Hughes_ _Hans Christian Andersen_ _Jakob Grimm_ _Wilhelm Grimm_ GROUP NINE 400 _John Ruskin_ _Oliver Goldsmith_ _Matthew Arnold_ _Thomas Babington Macaulay_ _John Bunyan_ _Thomas De Quincey_ _Charles Lamb_ GROUP TEN 454 _John Tyndall_ _Charles Kingsley_ _Thomas Moore_ _Alexander Pope_ _Thomas Campbell_ _David Livingstone_ _George MacDonald_ CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Everyone who associates with children becomes deeply interested in them. Their helplessness during their early years appeals warmly to sympathy; their acute desire to learn and their responsiveness to suggestion make teaching a delight; their loyalty and devotion warm the heart and inspire the wish to do the things that count for most. Everything combines to increase a sense of responsibility and to make the elders active in bringing to bear those influences that make for character, power and success. Every worthy teacher in every school gives more than her salary commands and puts heart power into every act. By example and precept the lessons are taught and growth follows in response to cultivation. But the schools are handicapped by lack of time for much personal care, by lack of facilities for the best of instruction and by the multiplicity of things that must be done. Under the best conditions a teacher has but a small part of a child's time and then instruction must be given usually to classes and not to individuals. Outside of school for a considerable time each day the child falls under the influence of playmates who may or may not be helpful, but the greater part of every twenty-four hours belongs to the home. Parents, guardians, brothers and sisters, servants, consciously or unconsciously, wisely or unwisely, are teaching all the time. It is from this great complex of influences that every child builds his character and lays the foundation of whatever success he afterwards achieves.