Schools in villages, why important, 70; prevalence of schools, 73; abundance of teachers, 73; salaries, 74; school lists, 74; arrangements concerning tuition, 75; schoolhouses, 75; furniture, 75, 76; duration of school year, 76; vacations, 76, 90; honour shown to Confucius, 76; school hours and intermissions, 77; heating schoolrooms, 77; returning from school, 77; severity of discipline, 79, 80; shouting in study, 80; "backing," 81, 82; books studied, 82-85; "explaining," 85, 86; writing exercises, 87; studies interrupted by teacher's guests and his examinations, 88, 89; playing in the school, 89; irregular attendance of pupils, 89, 90; lack of classification, 90; no genuine intellectual work done, 90; two valuable lessons learned at school, 93; do not teach arithmetic, 104, 105; their strength and weakness, 106, 107. Screens before gates, their use, 21. Secret sects, 145. Seers or "bright-eyes," 283, 284. Shan-tung productions, 161, 162. Shops in villages, goods sold, 49, 50; headquarters from which to radiate to fairs, 50; hard lot of clerks, 51, 52; case of meat seller, 51, 52; cheating methods, 53. Sorghum, 161; stripping off lower leaves, 166. Strolling scholars, 107, 109. "Style" of individuals, 239, 240. Suicide, punishment for inciting to, 322, 323. Superintendent of Instruction, 130, 131. "Surety" for literary candidates, 115, 116. "Surnames, Book of," 84. Surnames, the four common ones, 31. T'ai Shan's historical importance, 141; its pilgrimages, 141, 142; "Mountain Societies," 142. Taxes on "empty grain-tax land," 329 Teacher's hard lot as pictured in a play, 67, 68; in proverbs, 73; in experience, 74; do not teach in their own towns, 74, 75; their manner of life, 75; honourable position, 76, 78; unlimited power, 78; relation to pupils, 78; substitute teachers, 89; Western criticism of, 102. Temples to be used as schoolhouses, 135; how village temples came to be built, 136; reasons for their absence in some villages, 137; two gods most commonly honoured with temples, 137, 138; uses made of building fund surplus, 138; resorts of thieves and beggars, 139; temple expenses, 139; as receptacles of coffins and funeral paraphernalia, 139; different deities in same temple, 140; temple tax at fairs, 149; lawsuits over, 232.