Part 16
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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