Gradually, therefore, accustom them to the dangers they may meet in reading.

Train their judgment, strengthen their wills, make them loyal to conscience, and then, trusting in God's grace, give them to their work in life.
INDEX.
Abbesses, the great, 224.
Accent and pronunciation, 154.
Adolescence, impressionability of children in, 173.
Aesthetics, 68; principles of, 71-2; teaching of, 187.
Agnesi, Maria Gaetana, 222.
Aids to study, 103-4.
A Kempls on self-seeking, 197.
America: educational experiments in, 84; text-books in, 180.
American view on character, 22.
-- expressive phrases, 128,155.
Ampere, Catholic scientist, 115.
Amusements and lessons, 100.
Animals, care of, in education of children, 125.
Answers, irrelevancy in girls', 74.
Aquinas, St.Thomas, 72.
Architecture, Gothic, inferences from, 189.
Arnold, Matthew, quoted, 48.
Art, character and, 186-7; Christian, 188, 189, 197; for children, 191-2; contrasts in works of, 189-90; in education of girls, 72, 187; French art, 187; history of, 188-9; study of, 190-1; aims of study in early education, 185, 196.
Assenting mind, the, 25.
Assentors, great, 26.
Athletic craze, the, 111.
-- girl, the, 219.
Atmosphere in education, 321-2.
Audience, English and German, contrasted, 193.
"Aurora Leigh," 216.
Average person, the, 64-6.
"Babylonian Captivity," the.

165.
Bacon, "Of Goodnesse," 45.
Balder, the story of, 170.
Barbarism, selfishness and, 199.
Basilicas, the Christian, 19-20.
Basket-ball for girls, 110.
Bassi, Laura, 222.
Beale, Dorothea, cited, 94.
Bedford College, 218.
Benedictine monks, cited, 92-8.
Boarding schools, 76; young children in, 78.
Boniface VIII, 177.
Books, attitude of child towards, 36; wealth of children's literature in England, 144-5 -- reaction against mere lessons from, 80, 119-20.
-- Sacred, jewels of prayer and devotion in, IS.
-- to avoid, 148.
Botany, 122-3.
British oulturs, characteristics of, 139.
Browning, E.B., cited, 216.
-- R., quoted, 76; "An incident of the French camp," cited, 136.
Calvinism, 4, 26.
Candour, charm of, in children, 130.
Carlyle, cited, 153.
Catch-words, abuse of, 133.
Catherine, St., of Siena, 223.
Catholic-- Art, 189, 197.
Atmosphere, effect on manners, 201.
Body, at play, 111; and religious education, 1.
Characteristics: belong to graver side of human race, 112, Child, the, characteristics of, 29, 30; source of courage in, 9-10; in Protestant surroundings, 24; prerogative of, 9, 30.
Children, and relationship with Jeaus and His Mother, 8; and religion, 16-18; under influence of Sacraments, 29.
Church, ideals for man and woman in, 118, 225.
Citizenship, 39.
Disabilities, Newman quoted, 112-3.
Education, 220, 225, 230; and character, 39; and history, 116.
Faith, gives particular orientation of mind, 232.
Family life, 89, 93.
Girls, and work for the Church, 89; and Church music, 193.
Historical hold on the past, 152.
Literature, 240.
Men of science, 116.
Mental life, 242.
Mind: training of the, 197; and history, 165.
Patriotism, 39.
Peasantry, 211.
Philosophy, 60-76; value of, in education, 61.
Schools: manners in, 201; sodalities in, 78.
Secrets of strength, 99.
Teachers, 100; and truth in history, 178.
Text-books, need of, 180.
Women, duty and privilege of, 112.
Catholics and-- Equality of education, 118; higher education, 220; duty In ing, 240; historical teaching, 176; Latin, 163; taste in art, 194 -- disabilities of, Newman quoted, 112-8.
Celts of N.Europe, types of character among, 97.
Certificates as aids to study, 1084.
Character, 21-3; essentials of, 40-1; evolution of, 60,179-3; study of, 22, 29, 34-9; training of, 22, 29-34, 38-42, 46, 49-51, 58, 148, 210, 221, 225-6, 230; means of training 42-4; types of, 26-9, 37.
-- influence of art on, 186.
-- in the teacher, 38, 46-59.
-- manners and, 209.
-- religion and, 6-7, 29.
-- the strength of great women, 228.
-- value of, appreciated by children, 56-8, 171.
Characters, modern, 26, 83; cardinal points in study of children's, 34-7.
Characteristic cadence in speaking, 54.

Characteristics, of the age, 39; of British culture, 130; of English style, 129-30; of girls' work, 218.
Charges against the Church, 179.
Chaucer, 127.
Cheltenham College, 94, 218.
Child, attitude of, towards books, 36.
-- martyrs, 10.
-- study, 35, 57.
-- vocabulary of an "only," 132.
-- Wordsworth's "model child," 32-3.
_See also_ Catholic Child.
Childhood, friendships formed in, 11.
-- impressionability of, 173.
Childishness in piety, 10.
Childlike spirit of Catholic child, 29.
Children, 30.
-- books for, 144-6; attitude to books, 36.
-- characteristics of, 36, 66, 56, 82-3, 109-10, 123; candour, 180; habits of mind, 126; sensitive to influences, 46; as critics, 136; like _real people_, 56-6; dislike compromise, 175.
-- delicate, 9, 50, 84, 86.
-- development of, 82; mental development, 140-1, 169-73.
-- eccentric ways in, 84.
-- groups observable among, 23, 26-8, 87, 62,125.
-- and lessons; a simple life essential, 100; do not know how to learn, 101; answers, 102.
-- letters of, 188-9.
-- and love of nature, 124,126.
-- no orphans within the Church, 80.
-- and playtime solitude, 108-9.

souls of, 200.
-- training of, 32-3.
Chivalry: age of, 202; religious spirit of, 165.
Choleric temperament, the, 26.
Church, the-- Abuses in, exaggerated, 179.
Ceremonial of, 205-6.
Characterised as the Great Master who educates us all, 434; as the Guardian of Truth, 239; the Teacher of all nations, 58-9, 99.
Example of, as teacher, 43; influence on Catholic taachers, 99-100.
in France, 165.
and history, 165.
Ideals for man and woman in, 118, 225.
Music of, 193-4.
Needlework for, 89.
the pioneers of, 92.
as a teacher of manners, 200-3, 205.
testimony to, from Non-Catholic sources, 59, 178.
Classes, advantages of large, 97.
Classical studies, 151-2 Classics, English, for the young, 145.
"Clever" children, the so-called, 125.
Colonial life, 92.
Common sense, 65.
Communion, First, 29.
Composition, oral, 138; written, 137, 139-42.
Concentric method in teaching, 167.
Confirmation, 29.
Contentment, 90.
Contrasts, method of, in teaching of art, 189.
Control and "handling" in training children, 200.
Controversies.