Examinations, 28, 44, 70, 184;
an Institute paper, 130-135;
best prepared for by broad teaching, 122;
boy's view of, 8, 9;
danger of, 40;
entrance, 35, 45;
inevitable, 121;
necessarily a makeshift, 4;
not the aim in teaching, 28, 73;
study for, 121-130;
valuable only as tests, 121;
what counts in, 125;
what examinations should test, 44.
Fables, truth of, 21.
Fielding, _Tom Jones_, 202.
Goldsmith, _Vicar of Wakefield_, 44, 56, 152.
Hawthorne, quoted, 167.
_Heart of Oak Series_, 91.
Honesty essential in teaching, 54.
Illustrations, care in using, 211.
_Il Percone_, 32.
Imagination essential in study of literature, 3;
not created but developed, 53;
nourished by literature, 26.
Inspirational use of literature, 74, 88-95, 117, 236.
Irving, _Life of Goldsmith_, 37.
_Ivanhoe_, 37, 152;
quoted, 169;
study of, 159-163.
Johnson, Samuel, quoted, 91.
"Juvenile" literature, 80.
Lamb, Charles, 234.
Language of literature, 63-67, 118;
of pupils, 64, 68-70;
value judged by effect, 209.
Life, "realities of," 20.
Limitations, inevitable, 46-48;
must be accepted, 31, 196;
youthful, 240.
Litchfield, Mary E., quoted, 77.
Literature, a Fine Art, 53;
aim of, 85;
algebraic, 112;
approached through personal experience, 67, 69;
deals with abstract ideas, 67;
difficulty in teaching, 28-38;
defined by De Quincey, 123;
essentially human, 238;
history of, 40, 222;
"juvenile," 80, 239;
language of, 63-67, 118;
measured by life, 56;
must be connected with life, 68;
must be taught in language of learner, 68;
not didactic, 22, 109;
not taught by arbitrary methods, 238;
nourishes imagination, 26;
pupils indifferent to, 48;
relation to life, 110;
reproduces mood, 116;
symbolic, 113;
truth in, 112-114;
vocabulary of, 74;
why included in school course, 11-27.
_See_ Study of Literature; Teaching of Literature; Literary
Workmanship.
Literary appreciation, may be unconscious, 93.
Literary workmanship, 207-221.
Longfellow, 83;
_Evangeline_, 42, 43, 45.
Macaulay, 211, 214;
_Life of Johnson_, 37;
_Milton_, 35, 36, 212, 213.
_Macbeth_, 3, 5, 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.
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