Par. 1. The "Four W's": Who=hundreds of people; What=handiwork in snow; When=yesterday; Where=Brook Avenue near One Hundred and Forty-ninth Street. Par. 2. The Exterior of the House. Par. 3. The Interior. Par. 4. The Architects. VIII. Some Possible Subjects 1. The Gas Engine that Jack built. 2. A Profitable Garden. 3. How a Boy earned his Education. 4. A Cabinet. 5. How to bind Books. 6. Stocking and keeping an Aquarium. 7. How to build a Flatboat. 8. How to make Dolls from Corn-Husks. 9. Metallic Band Work. 10. A Sled made of Ice. 11. Silk Culture. 12. Chickens. 13. A Good Notebook. 14. A Sketch-Book. 15. A Successful Composition. 16. Skees. 17. A Paper Boat. 18. Toys made in the Manual Training Rooms. 19. A Hat. 20. A Dress. 21. The best subject of all, however, is none of these, but one that the pupil finds himself. IX. Suggested Reading Elbert Hubbard's _A Message to Garcia_. X. Memorize A PSALM OF LIFE (_continued from Page 7_) Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act, act in the living Present! Heart within and God o'erhead! Lives of great men all remind us, We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. TO TEACHERS. At this point a review of Chapter V, "Proof-Reading" and Chapter VI, "The Correction of Themes," of _Practical English Composition_, Book I, will be found an invaluable exercise. CHAPTER III BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES "Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime." LONGFELLOW. I. Assignment Write a biographical note of about two hundred words concerning a citizen who has just come into public notice. II. Obtaining the Facts If the subject of the note is already distinguished, the facts can usually be collected from books and periodicals. Poole's _Index of Periodical Literature_ will point the way. Most newspapers keep an indexed mass of biographical material, which, of course, is at a reporter's disposal. When these sources fail, the man himself must be interviewed, which is a task that requires tact, politeness, persistency, a good memory, and a clear idea of the character and quantity of the information needed. III. Models I