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, 72; _Ancient Mariner_, 37, 84, 85, 181. College entrance requirements, 8, 30, 138, 213; books, 34-38; editors of, 6. Conventionality, how met, 197. Cook, May Estelle, _Methods of Teaching Novels_, 128. "Cramming," 59. Criticism, 193-206; asked of pupils, 44; of trashy books, 231; must take pupil's point of view, 231. Decker, quoted, 169. Defoe, _Journal of the Plague Year_, 224. Deliberation in work necessary, 217. Description, how written by pupils, 127. De Quincey, 211; definition of literature, 123; _Flight of a Tartar Tribe_, 234. Diagrams, futility of, 6. Dickens, quoted, 7, 202. Didactic literature, 22, 109. Edgeworth, Maria, _Parents' Assistant_, 23. Eliot, George, 129; _Silas Marner_, 5, 32, 37, 56, 127, 152, 197. Emerson, 211; quoted, 65. Emotion, aim of literature to arouse, 85; in literature, 2, 90; the motive power, 24. Enthusiasm, connected with culture, 24; contagious, 241; necessary in teaching, 55; justification of, 57; reason to be reached through, 40, 50. _Evangeline_, 234; questions on, 42, 43, 45. Examinational teaching, 74, 121-135.