Children's books, 150-165.
Christianity, a religion of the personal and the concrete, 147.
Co-education of the sexes, 167-174.
Coleridge's reading, 12.
Comparisons and similes, reading of, 80-82.
Culture, true, unconscious of the processes which induced it, 20.
De Imitatione Christi, quoted on 'the eternal word,' 147, 148.
De Quincey, Thomas, quoted on Coleridge's reading, 12.
Dogma, the arch-enemy of Christianity, 147.
Dowden, Prof. Edward, quoted on reading, 120, 121.
Education, the danger to which it will be more and more exposed, 38;
etymology of the word, 39, 40.
Elocutionary skill, 18.
Elwood, Thomas, quoted as to his reading Latin to Milton, 53.
Emerson, quoted on the human voice, 102, 103;
his own voice described, 103, 104.
_Enjambement_, absence of, in Pope's verse, 101.
Estimates of all things, relative, 27.
Eternal Word, The, not exclusive, 149, 150.
Examinations, literary, 55-60;
leading object of, 59.
Faith in womankind, a liberal education, 173.
Feeling must precede knowing, in a child, 70, 71.
Femineity _vs._ womanliness, 173, 174.
Garrison, William Lloyd, quoted on Mazzini's advocacy of the
equality of the sexes, 177.
Gesture, mimetic, its absurdities, 128-131.
Greek verse must be read aloud, and in time, 46.
Grouping of speech, 28.
Home-life in this country, 139, 140.
Hume, David, quoted on criticism, 37.
Imitation of Christ, quoted on 'the eternal word,' 147, 148.
'Impressions before the letter,' 40.
Inflections, or bends, of the voice, must be always
significant, 77-79.
Interior life demanded in reading, 119.
Jesus, teachings of, clothed in circumstance and imagery, 157-160.
Keats, John, quoted on the Popian period of English poetry, note 6.
Language, as addressed to the eye, must be largely supplemented by
the voice, 29, 30.
Languages, modern, the study of, 51, 52.
Latin verse, must be read aloud, and in time, 46.
Legouve, Ernest, quoted in regard to reading, in America, as an
educational agency, 34;
quoted on 'les vers libres,' note 7.
Lewes, G. H., quoted on the stuffing of children with
knowledge, 40, 41.
Linguistic studies, importance of vocalization in, 43.
Literary education, leading object of, 122.
Literary examinations, 55;
leading object of, 59.
Literary lecture, what it should be, 36, 37.
Manhood, a true, 167.
Mazzini, Giuseppe, quoted on woman, her power, her equality with
man, and her rights, 174-177;
William Lloyd Garrison quoted on Mazzini, 177.
Melody in reading, 97-101.
Milton's Samson Agonistes, choruses of, must be read in time, 51.
Mimetic gesture, its absurdities, 128-131.
Monotony preferable to non-significant intervals, 79.
Moral influence of the speaking voice, 104-107.
Moral insight of man, 168, 169.
Moral teachers, the greatest, not explicit moralizers, 155.
Mothers, comparatively few, capable, 146;
indebtedness of great men to their, 178.
'Natural' reading, 13.
Nature, spiritual relationship with, 142-145.
Perspective of speech, an important element of interpretative
reading, 27.
Phenomena not in themselves educative, 148.
Plato quoted on the written and the spoken word, note 8.
Poem, a, not a poem until it is voiced, 30;
a true, 62.
Poets cannot always vocalize their own verse, 14.
Pope's verse, its mechanical uniformity, 100, 101;
absence of _enjambement_ in, 101.
'Prelude,' Wordsworth's, its great educative value, 145.
Printed, or written, language, deficiencies of, to be supplied by
the reader, 29, 30.
Printing, art of, has caused language to be too much known through
the eye alone, 114, 115.
Reading, can it be taught?, 9;
the main achievable result, 18;
extempore, its requirements, 26;
the best test of a student's knowledge of language as an
organism, 28, 29;
must give life to the letter, 29;
the conditions for so doing, 30;
Shelley quoted thereupon, 31;
requirements in early life for its cultivation, 42;
art of, its correspondences with that of painting, 68, 69;
the requisite physical means of, 72;
technique of, 73 _et seq._;
is not acting, 126.
Reading matter for the young, 160-164.
Reasoning faculties, the premature exercise of, 70, 152, 153.
Recitation, its evils, 127.
Reverential sentiments, cultivation of, 141.
Ruskin, John, quoted on the power of woman, 169, 170.
Scholarship must not become an end to itself, 124.
Schools do not fit their students for interpretative reading, 123.
Science, power of, 13;
Wordsworth quoted on, 137.
Shakespeare, reading of, to boys and girls, 35.
Shakespeare's estimate of the voice, 109-113;
his personal history and interior life, 178;
quoted on woman, 179;
on study, 180;
his mother, 178, 181.
Similes and comparisons, reading of, 80-82.
Skill, elocutionary, 18.
Slaughter of the innocents, in schools, 40;
G. H. Lewes quoted, 40, 41.
Slighting of speech illustrated, 83-95.
Speaking voice, importance of its cultivation as a moral
agency, 102-109.
Speech, slighting of, illustrated, 83-95.
Spiritual education demanded for interpretative reading, 122;
means and conditions of, 133-166;
must be induced on the basis of the concrete and the
personal, 146, 147.
Stories for the young, 153.
Taste, true, an expression of spiritual life, 129.
Taylor, Sir Henry, quoted on reading, 34-36;
quoted on Tennyson's reading, 76, 77.
Teacher, the ideal, 32, 33.
Tennyson's reading, 76, 77;
his 'Recollections of the Arabian Nights,' 162.
'Thorough' study of a work of genius, 124.
Time, its importance in vocal expression, 79-82.
Unconscious might, in every work of genius, 65.
University of the future, what it must do for the spiritual
man, 132.
Verse, accentual and quantitative, 46-49.
Vincent de Lerins, St., quoted on the universal and the
eternal, 148, 149.
Vocal exercises, 60-62.
Voice, the speaking, importance of its cultivation as a moral
agency, 102-109;
Shakespeare's estimate of, 109-113.
Whateley's, Archbishop, theory of 'natural' reading, 14;
his own oratorical delivery, 15;
his assumptions in regard to elocution, 19.
Woman, her power and rights, Mazzini quoted on, 174-177.
Womanhood, a true, 167, 170.
Womanliness _vs._ femineity, 173, 174.
Wordsworth quoted on hearing, 125;
on science, 137;
the great educative value of his 'Prelude,' 145.
Written, or printed, language, deficiencies of, to be supplied
by the reader, 29, 30.
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