'Prelude,' Wordsworth's, its great educative value, 145. Printed, or written, language, deficiencies of, to be supplied by the reader, 29, 30. Printing, art of, has caused language to be too much known through the eye alone, 114, 115. Reading, can it be taught?, 9; the main achievable result, 18; extempore, its requirements, 26; the best test of a student's knowledge of language as an organism, 28, 29; must give life to the letter, 29; the conditions for so doing, 30; Shelley quoted thereupon, 31; requirements in early life for its cultivation, 42; art of, its correspondences with that of painting, 68, 69; the requisite physical means of, 72; technique of, 73 _et seq._; is not acting, 126. Reading matter for the young, 160-164. Reasoning faculties, the premature exercise of, 70, 152, 153. Recitation, its evils, 127. Reverential sentiments, cultivation of, 141. Ruskin, John, quoted on the power of woman, 169, 170. Scholarship must not become an end to itself, 124. Schools do not fit their students for interpretative reading, 123. Science, power of, 13; Wordsworth quoted on, 137. Shakespeare, reading of, to boys and girls, 35. Shakespeare's estimate of the voice, 109-113; his personal history and interior life, 178; quoted on woman, 179; on study, 180; his mother, 178, 181. Similes and comparisons, reading of, 80-82. Skill, elocutionary, 18. Slaughter of the innocents, in schools, 40; G. H. Lewes quoted, 40, 41. Slighting of speech illustrated, 83-95. Speaking voice, importance of its cultivation as a moral agency, 102-109. Speech, slighting of, illustrated, 83-95. Spiritual education demanded for interpretative reading, 122; means and conditions of, 133-166; must be induced on the basis of the concrete and the personal, 146, 147. Stories for the young, 153. Taste, true, an expression of spiritual life, 129. Taylor, Sir Henry, quoted on reading, 34-36; quoted on Tennyson's reading, 76, 77. Teacher, the ideal, 32, 33. Tennyson's reading, 76, 77; his 'Recollections of the Arabian Nights,' 162. 'Thorough' study of a work of genius, 124. Time, its importance in vocal expression, 79-82. Unconscious might, in every work of genius, 65. University of the future, what it must do for the spiritual man, 132. Verse, accentual and quantitative, 46-49. Vincent de Lérins, St., quoted on the universal and the eternal, 148, 149. Vocal exercises, 60-62. Voice, the speaking, importance of its cultivation as a moral agency, 102-109; Shakespeare's estimate of, 109-113.