INDEX

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.

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.

Milton, 15, 53, 117, 220, 225;

Comus, 34, 85, 117, 228;

Il Penseroso, 34, 41, 190;

L'Allegro, 34, 41, 190;

Lycidas, 34, 117;

Paradise Lost, 123, 127, 131, 228.

Milton, Macaulay's, 35, 36, 212, 213.

Moral, drawn by children, 129;

not to be drawn by teacher, 71-73, 163, 164, 198;

skipped by children, 89.

North, Plutarch's Lives, 170.

Notes, 75, 136;

to be studied first, 76.

Novel, study of, 152-164.

Œdipus, 202.

Oral recitation, 180, 184, 198.

Originality in children, 43.

Parables, truth of, 21-22.

Paraphrases, 219.

Plutarch, 170.

Poetry, compared with prose, 211-217;

nature of, 215.

Point of departure, 83, 143.

Point of view, 82, 149, 180.

Pope, quoted, 211.

Praise, not to be given beforehand, 70;

when wise, 71.

Prose, compared with poetry, 212-217.

Quicken tree, 168.

Raleigh, 25, 26, 64, 215.

Raphael, Dresden Madonna, 57.

Ray, 168.

Reading, aloud, 61, 154, 177;

final, of play, 186;

first, of play, 176-179;

in concert, 62;

intelligent, basis of study, 61-67;

second, of play, 179-186;

voluntary, 227-236.

Readings, disputed, 185.

Reference, books of, 136, 137.

Rembrandt, 208;

The Night Watch, 57.

Riche, Barnabie, quoted, 167.

Ridicule, danger of, 230.

Roosevelt, President, 57.

Sarcasm, forbidden, 199.

Scott, Ivanhoe, 37, 152, 159-163, 169;

Lady of the Lake, 37.

Shakespeare, 13, 16, 46, 47, 48, 49, 53, 57, 69, 72, 90, 117, 119, 129, 142, 168, 170, 181, 183, 184, 186, 187, 191, 206, 211, 212, 213, 225, 239;

Hamlet, 77, 127;

ill-judged notes on, 32;

Julius Cæsar, 34;

Lear, 168;

Macbeth, 3, 5, 32, 37, 40, 57, 63, 69, 76, 77, 83, 85, 118, 128, 165-192, 202, 239;

Merchant of Venice, 6, 81, 118;

Midsummer Night's Dream, 32;

Othello, 83, 167;

quoted, 205;

reason of greatness unexplained, 55;

Richard III, 166;

Romeo and Juliet, 6;

Tempest, 118;

Troilus and Cressida, 239.

Silas Marner, 5, 37, 56, 127, 152, 197;

note on, 32.

Sir Roger de Coverley Papers, 128, 138;

study of, 146-150.

Speech on Conciliation, 37, 65;

study of, 138-146.

Stevenson, Treasure Island, 152-159.

Swift, A Modest Proposal, 224.

Study of literature, in lower grades, 30;

must be deliberate, 217;

not study about literature, 40;

not study of notes, 34;

object of, 27, 29, 31;

obstacles to to-day, 39-60;

overweighted with details, 187;

puzzling to students, 47, 48;

test of success in, 30;

used as gymnasium, 88.

Summary, not a criticism, 204.

Supernatural, the, 84;

in Macbeth, 181;

in The Ancient Mariner, 181.

Superstition, about witch, 173;

about quicken tree, 168.

Synthesis vs. analysis, 21.

Teacher asks too much, 41-46;

ignores strain on pupil, 80;

must have clear ideas, 27, 49, 149;

must take things as they are, 39;

not clear as to object, 49;

not equal to demands, 53-60;

obliged to do work of home, 227;

to lead, not to drive, 58.

Teaching, helping to extend ideas, 210;

method in, 136, 224.

Teaching of literature, aim of, 11-27, 69-70, 236;

cannot be done by rule, 86, 138;

choice of selections in, 90-92;

confused methods, 6;

deals with emotion, 2;

educational, 3, 74, 109-120;

examinational, 3, 74, 121-135;

fine passages taken up in, 80;

importance of reading aloud in, 61;

inspirational, 49, 74, 88-95, 117;

must be adapted to average mind, 89;

preliminary, 74-87;

uncertainty in, 1-10;

written work in, 126.

Technique, instruction in. See Workmanship, literary.

Tennyson, 49;

Elaine, 37;

Merlin and Vivian, 170;

Princess, 37;

Revenge, 26, 215.

Text, 136;

model, 137.

Thoroughness, 119.

Titian, 53, 208.

Translating, effect of, 218.

Treasure Island, study of, 152-159.

Truth in literature, 112-114.

Vicar of Wakefield, 44, 56, 152.

Vocabulary, growth of, 209;

Miss Litchfield's view, 77;

of Burke's Speech, 139;

of Ivanhoe, 160, 162;

of Macbeth, 165-171;

of prose, 137;

of Sir Roger de Coverley, 147;

of Treasure Island, 153, 155;

study of, 76-79, 125, 193;

to be learned first, 74, 110, n.;

to be learned from reference-books, 76.

Washington, George, 22.

Words, value of, 16.

Word-values, 17.

Wordsworth, 49, 239;

Lesson for Fathers, 195.

Workmanship, literary, 207-221.

Written work, 126-130;

comparison in, 190;

description in, 127;

in study of Macbeth, 187-191;

supreme test in, 129.

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