66 also liberated and inspired. A modern writer has happily described Plutarch's Lives" as "The pasture of great souls"; the place, that is, where such souls are nourished and fed. There is no need of making concessions to what is often mistakenly supposed to be the taste of children, by giving them inferior things; let them grow up in the presence of superior things, and they will take to them as easily as they will take to cheaper things. Accustom a child to Homer, Shakespeare, Plutarch, Herodotus, Scott, Hawthorne, Irving, and it will be unnecessary to warn him against the books which are piled up at the newsstands and sold in railway trains. The boy who grows up in this society will rarely make friends with the vulgar and the unclean; he will love health, honor, truth, intelligence and manliness. For reading is not only a matter of taste and intelligence; it is a matter of character as well. From "Reading for Children," by Hamilton Wright Mabie, in Home and School and the Vernacular The home must reinforce the school, and no less must the school reinforce the home; for the ultimate aim of both is one and the same. The modern tendency has been to scoff at the right of scholars to express any opinion upon public school methods; but the time will soon come when the consensus of opinion among scholars shall have chief influence in fashioning courses of study for all pupils. Especially will this be true in the matter of English study. That which educated parents desire as training for their own children shall in the end prevail. The home may well send greeting to the school in the lines of "America" by Sydney Dobell, a British poet: Nor force nor fraud shall sunder us! Its breathing book; live worthy of that grand Sublime as Milton's immemorial theme, And rich as Chaucer's speech, and fair as Spenser's dream. abbreviations, use of, 210, 211, 313 accent, working backward, 290 advertising, 288 albums, for schools, 316 alliteration, defined, 143 INDEX allusion, defined, 5; illustrated, 6, 7, alphabet, the scientific, 291-295 Americanism, defined, 68 Americanisms, 279 anecdote, discussed, 157-163 anonym, defined, 56 antonym, defined, 56 apostrophe, 260 archaic, defined, 28 argot, defined, 18 art, discussed, 216, 217, 315 asserts, defined, 59 authors and authorities quoted: Bell, Dr. J. Alexander, 283 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 84, Browning, Robert, 1 Burton, Richard, 206, 232, 265, 287 Callaway, Dr. M. C., 297 Carpenter, Professor George R., Carroll, Lewis (Charles L. Dodg- Channing, William Ellery, 235 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 143, 231 DeVinne, Theodore Low, 52, 211 authors and authorities quoted, Drake, Joseph Rodman, 261 280 Eliot, President Charles W., Fiske, John, 190, 192 Ford, Paul Leicester, 268 Franklin, Benjamin, 199, 268, 291 Garner, Professor Robert L., 125, Greenough and Kittredge (Words Gulliver, Reverend J. P., 100 Hart, Professor James M., 259, Harwood, Professor S. E., 264, 277 Higginson, J. W., 162 Hill, Professor A. S., 61, 269, 295 Hillard, George Stillman, 181 Holland, Josiah Gilbert, 235 Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 3, 122, Hood, Thomas, 11, 165, 312 International dictionary, 279 Kipling, Rudyard, 262, 307 authors and authorities quoted, Lampman, Archibald, 225, 226 Lanier, Sidney, 138, 145, 146, 229, Liddell, Professor M. H., 282, 296, Lincoln, Abraham, 60, 101, 235, Lodge, Henry Cabot, 279 2, 4, 12, 80, 227, 228, 266, 301 Lyly, John, 230 Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 336 Matthews, William, 326 Meynell, Alice, 52 Mill, John Stuart, 330 Milnes, Richard Monckton, Lord Houghton, 68, 231 Milton, John, 262 Mitford, Mary Russell, 180 Percy's Reliques, The Heir of Phillips, Wendell, 203, 222, 305 ica, 291, 293 Poe, Edgar Allan, 137, 305 Ralph, Julian, 290 Rands, William Brighty, 310 Reese, Lizette Woodworth, 83 Romanes, George John, 304 Ruskin, John, 118, 223, 235, 302, 318 Scott, Sir Walter, 96 Scudder, Horace, 174 Shakspere, William, 262, 300 authors and authorities quoted, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 86, Shillaber, Benjamin P., 285 287; anthologies of, 271 Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 42, 93, Thomas, Professor Calvin J., 294 Wall, Professor Arnold, 332 Wendell, Professor Barrett, 277 Whittier, John Greenleaf, 177 Willard, Frances, 287 Withrow, William Henry, 8 Woman's Club of Denver, 310 ballads, collections of, 145; the early beauty, capacity for enjoying, univer- biography, defined, 188 Boston Tea Party, quoted from Fiske, 190 Briticism, defined, 68; examples of, 279 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, descrip- bull, illustrated, 203, 204 burlesque, defined, 3 by words, 265 cant, defined, 16 characterization, discussed, 175, 176 character sketch, 306 classic, a, 169, 220 classics, familiarity with, necessary, 6 colloquial English discussed, 24-28 dailies, in New York City, 289 dénoument, defined, 167 derivative (word), defined, 50 dialect, discussed, 38-40, 270; rules for diurnal, daily, journal, 96 doublets, discussed, 94-96; listed, 98, drama, defined, 166 dramatic instinct, 301 eloquence, discussed, 218; Emerson's English language in America, 38 epics, defined, 144, 174; world-famous, essay, the, 317 euphemism, 260 exclamation, 260 exercise references to literature: Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, 6, 7 Choate, Joseph, 160 Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, 14 Dickens, Child's Dream of a Star, exercise references to literature, Dooley, Mr. (F. P. Dunne), 199 Franklin, Dialogue on the Gont, Fro-t, William Henry, Tales from Hawthorne, on Leigh Hunt, 127 Hosmer, Short History of German Irving, Knickerbocker's History Landor, Imaginary Conversations, Landseer, Sir Edwin, 161 Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, 223 7; Courtship of Miles Stand- Lowell, Biglow Papers, 199, 205; Percy's Reliques, 145; Heir of Phillips, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Pyle, Merry Adventures of Robin Scott, Allan-a-Dale, Jock-o'-Hazel- Tennyson, Bugle Song, 224; God- Intelligence, The, 264 New York Times, 103 Outlook, The, 210, 287, 336 Providence Telegram, 261 Saturday Evening Post, 289, 326 School and Home Education, 325 St. Nicholas, 210, 275, 334 Youth's Companion, The, 103, 296 poems, suggested list of, 319-324 Answer to a Child's Question, Beauty, Lampman, 225 Biglow Papers, The, Lowell, 40 Bivouac of the Dead, O'Hara, 11 Blood Horse, The, Procter, 14 Building of the Ship, The, Long- fellow, 12 Campaspe, Lyly, 230 Celestial Love, The, Emerson, 226 |