also liberated and inspired. A modern writer has happily described Plutarch's 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! O ye 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 articulation, 290 asserts, defined, 59 authors and authorities quoted : Barrie, J. M., 78 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., 291 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 Eliot, President Charles W., 280 7 Ford, Paul Leicester, 268 Franklin, Benjamin, 199, 268, 291 296 302 Hill, Professor A. S., 61, 269, 295 Hillard, George Stillman, 181 Hood, Thomas, 11, 165, 812 International dictionary, 279 Kipling, Rudyard, 262, 307 authors and authorities quoted, Lampman, Archibald, 225, 226 Lanier, Sidney, 138, 145, 146, 229, Laycock, Samuel, 45 Liddell, Professor M. H., 282, 296, Lincoln, Abraham, 60, 101, 235, Lodge, Henry Cabot, 279 2, 4, 12, 80, 227, 228, 266, 301 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 O'Hara, Theodore, 11 Percy's Reliques, The Heir of Phillips, Wendell, 203, 222, 305 Poe, Edgar Allan, 137, 305 Ralph, Julian, 290 Rands, William Brighty, 310 Reese, Lizette Woodworth, 83 Ruskin, John, 118, 223, 235, 302, 318 Scott, Sir Walter, 96 Scudder, Horace, 174 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 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 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 Depew, Chauncey, 161 Dickens, Child's Dream of a Star, 7; Gad's Hill Gazette, 106; exercise references to literature, Dooley, Mr. (F. P. Dunne), 199 Franklin, Dialogue on the Gout, Frost, 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 Lanier, The Power of Prayer, 44 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- 223 Tennyson, Bugle Song, 224; God- fable, defined, 5 fairy tales, 305 fictitious, the, 304 figures, of speech, 1-5; faded, 270; of form, 260 fine art, 218, 315 folklore, 268, 303 good form, defined, 209; drills in, 314, 315 grammar, defined, 49, 218 group, synonyms for, 88, 89 history, 188; how to study, 309 homonym, defined, 56 humor, 309, 310 hyperbole, 260 ideas and words, 57 idiom, discussed, 31-36; English Irish nation, wit and eloquence of, 204 irony, 260, 310 jargon, defined, 16 jingles, the making of, 279 Johnsonese, 285 narration, illustrated, 174 newspaper English, 104-106; Lowell newspaper, the, discussed, 100-107, 288; a school, 109-111 Norman French, 94, 286 novel, the, 306 oratory, defined, 218 parable, defined, 5 parody, 310 pathos, defined, 200 peddler's French, defined, 18 Atlanta Constitution, 41 Child Study Monthly, 336 100 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- |