Child, attitude of, towards books, 36. --martyrs, 10. --study, 35, 57. --vocabulary of an "only," 132. --Wordsworth's "model child," 32-3. _See also_ Catholic Child. Childhood, friendships formed in, 11. --impressionability of, 173. Childishness in piety, 10. Childlike spirit of Catholic child, 29. Children, 30. --books for, 144-6; attitude to books, 36. --characteristics of, 36, 66, 56, 82-3, 109-10, 123; candour, 180; habits of mind, 126; sensitive to influences, 46; as critics, 136; like _real people_, 56-6; dislike compromise, 175. --delicate, 9, 50, 84, 86. --development of, 82; mental development, 140-1, 169-73. --eccentric ways in, 84. --groups observable among, 23, 26-8, 87, 62,125. --and lessons; a simple life essential, 100; do not know how to learn, 101; answers, 102. --letters of, 188-9. --and love of nature, 124,126. --no orphans within the Church, 80. --and playtime solitude, 108-9. souls of, 200. --training of, 32-3. Chivalry: age of, 202; religious spirit of, 165. Choleric temperament, the, 26. Church, the-- Abuses in, exaggerated, 179. Ceremonial of, 205-6. Characterised as the Great Master who educates us all, 434; as the Guardian of Truth, 239; the Teacher of all nations, 58-9, 99. Example of, as teacher, 43; influence on Catholic taachers, 99-100. in France, 165. and history, 165. Ideals for man and woman in, 118, 225. Music of, 193-4. Needlework for, 89. the pioneers of, 92. as a teacher of manners, 200-3, 205. testimony to, from Non-Catholic sources, 59, 178. Classes, advantages of large, 97. Classical studies, 151-2 Classics, English, for the young, 145. "Clever" children, the so-called, 125. Colonial life, 92. Common sense, 65. Communion, First, 29. Composition, oral, 138; written, 137, 139-42. Concentric method in teaching, 167. Confirmation, 29. Contentment, 90. Contrasts, method of, in teaching of art, 189. Control and "handling" in training children, 200. Controversies. _See_ Educational Controversies. Conventionality, 198-9. Conventions, code of, 199. Conversation, 132-7; of girls, 182-4; principles in, 137. Cooking, 90, 121. Correction, value of, 42. Cosmology, 68. Countrymen and nature, 124-5. Crimean War and women's work, 219. Criticism and correction, 42-3; administered by the Church, 44. --evils of merely destructive, 183; reading lesson as an exercise in, 136; of essays, 142. Critics, gravity of children as, 136. Cross-roads in a girl's life, 140. Cruelty, 199. Crusades, ideals of the, 165. Curiosity concerning evil, 14; evil of curiosity in reading, 149.