_See_ Educational Controversies.
Conventionality, 198-9.
Conventions, code of, 199.
Conversation, 132-7; of girls, 182-4; principles in, 137.
Cooking, 90, 121.

Correction, value of, 42.

Cosmology, 68.
Countrymen and nature, 124-5.
Crimean War and women's work, 219.
Criticism and correction, 42-3; administered by the Church, 44.
-- evils of merely destructive, 183; reading lesson as an exercise in, 136; of essays, 142.
Critics, gravity of children as, 136.
Cross-roads in a girl's life, 140.
Cruelty, 199.
Crusades, ideals of the, 165.
Curiosity concerning evil, 14; evil of curiosity in reading, 149.
Dalgairns, Fr., cited, 12.
Damoiseaux, in days of chivalry, 203 Dancing, 110-11.
Dante, "Paradiso," quoted, 60.
Death, right thoughts of, 7.
De Bonald, cited, 73.
De Ghantal, St.Jane F., quoted, 76.
De Gramont, Marquise, quoted, 41.
Degrees, different significance of, for man and woman, 220-1.
Democratic age, 5, 207.
Democracy in the nursery, 208.
De Ravignan, Pere, quoted, 105.
Devotion: requirements of, 10; to our Lady, 205, 218.

_And see_ Self-devotion.
Devotions of Blessed Sacrament and Sacred Heart entrusted to women, 223.
-- to the Saints, 10.
Difficulties of mind, 61-6.
Discipline and obedience, 42.
Dogmatism in teaching, 53.
Domestic occupations, 81, 85-92, 93, 121.
Doubts and difficulties as to faith, 14.
Dressmaking, 88.
Drudgery, need of, 96, 98.
Duty and endurance, 96.
Eccentricity, 83-5.
Educated, a well-educated girl, 231.
Education-- Aims in, 88, 89, 159, 230-1.
Board of, 80-1, 95, 119, 120, 121.
and character, 21, 231.
Demands of girls', 77.
A "finished," 230-1.
Higher Education of women, 214-28.
Home education, 77, 96, 97, 155.
Intermediate, 87,116.
Intellectual and practical, contrasted, 91.
Last years of, 213.
and lesson books, 80.
Life the test of, 230.
and material requirements of life, 86.
Middle class, and practical work, 81.
Mistakes in English, 119-21.
the opportunity of the teacher, 229, Practical, 81, 91; practical aspect of, 122.
Problems in, 76 _et seq_.
Religious, 1-20.
and religious orders, 58-9.
State control in, 217.
System of 1870, 34, 120.
"Ugly stage" in, 230.
of women, changes in, 215.
of young children, 78-9, 96-7.
Educational advantages of personal work, 88.
Educational controversies, 1, 99, 116, 118, 151, 218.
-- experiments in America, 34.
-- pressure levels original thought, 184.
Educators, qualities in great, 99; fundamental principles of, 99, 156.
-- of early childhood, types of, 31-2.
Elementary schools, 97.
Elizabeth, the two Saints, 224.
Emerson on manners, 198.
Encouragement, need of, 50.
English characteristics, 180, 137, 216-7.
-- language, 128, 150; study of, 127-49; mathod in study, 131; characteristics of style, 129-30; American influences on, 127-8; traces of Elizabethan, in America, 128; new words in, 129; children's English, 129-31.

_And see_ Composition, Conversation, Literature, Reading.
-- martyrs, 172.
-- portraits in Berlin, 129-30.
Essay writing, 138-42.
Ethics, 68, 70, 71, 73.
European history, 165, 166.
Eustoohium, St., 224.
Examination programme, a professional danger, 61.
Example, power of, 38, 46.
Excitement, evil of, 100, 231.
_Exempt_ persons, 86.
Faber, Father, on hell and heaven, 8, 233-7.
Fairness, children look for, 56.
Faith, and art, 189-90, 194.
-- Catholic, things which come with, 39.
-- child's soul hungry for, 200.
-- children as confessors of, 10.
-- dangers to, 11-14, 178, 240.
-- difficulties and doubts as to, 14-15.
-- mysteries in, 2, 15.
-- philosophy, a help and support to, 61, 72.
-- the Propagation of the, 228.
-- responsibility with regard to, 16-17.
-- right thoughts of, 10.
-- thoughts of, inspiring life, 6, 98, 104.
Family life, Catholic, 39, 93.
Fathers and mothers, symbols of God's love, 3.
Faults contrary to spirit of childhood, 50.
Feltre, Vittorino da, 99.
Fighting instinct in child, 109.
First aid, 89.
Fitch, Sir J., "Lessons on Teaching," cited 169.
Fitness, sense of, 19.
Flowers and children, 109, 128, 125-6.
Four last things, right thoughts of, 7-8.
France, literature in, 161.
Francis of Sales, St., cited, 12,17, 26; on care of the Church, 44; works of, 162 _n_., 242.
Frauenbund, 219.
Freemason, Jewish, in Rome, 11.
French: art, 187; language, study of, 163, 150, 169-60; litarature 160-1; mind, bent of, 160; Revolution, 202.
Friend, the influence of a, 42.
Friendship and character forming, 42, 43.
Friendships, as indications of character, 86; a safeguard against morbid, 51; with the saints, 11.
Gairdner's "Lollardy and the Reformation" cited, 179.
Games, value of organized, 78, 107-8, 110.
Gardens for children, 125.
-- in a new country, 126.
Genesis, Book of, 115.
Geography, 122.
German, language, study of, 153-4, 169-60.
-- musical audience, 193.
Girl students at universities, 217-8, 226.
Girls' and higher moral education, 226-7.
-- answers, irrelevancy in, 74.
-- views of life at age of 18, 214; mental outlook at 16, 141.
-- work, characteristics of, 218.
Girton, 218.
"Giving way," 85.
God, child's soul near to, 126.
-- duty to, 1, 218, 241.
-- Fatherhood of, 3, 6.
-- on conveying right thought of, to children, 1-8.
-- truths concerning existence of, 72.
God's care for us, 44.
-- priest, Art, 182.
Golliwogg, the, 105-6.
Gothic architecture, 189.
Governess, a modern, 77.
Grammar, 67.
Gramophone in language teaching, 156.
Greek history, 169.
-- tragedies, 184.
Gregory XVI and De Bonald, 73.
Grown-up life, on anticipated instruction in, 94.
Habit of work, 40, 98.
Habits, 21, 22.
Handicrafts, teaching of, 81.
"Handling " in training in manners, 200-2.
Handy member of family, the, 83.
Hearing of lessons, 101.
Hedley, Bp., quoted, 43.
Hell and heaven, 8, 238-7.
Hidden lives, 227-8.
Higher education of women, 214-8; atmosphere for, non-existent 221, 226; and Catholic influence, 225; false aims in, 226; and realities of life, 226.
-- life, the, 228.
Historical teaching to Catholics, 176.
History, 164; position in curriculum, 166-7; value in education, 181.
-- European, centres round the Church, 165-7.
-- study, and the examination syllabus, 166, 168.
-- teaching: and periods in development of children, 170-6; aims in teaching, 172; method, 102, 167-9, 180-1; concentric method, 167; truth in teaching, 178; requirements in the teacher, 176-9.
-- text-books, defects of, 168.
Hockey, 110.
Holy family, the, 98.
-- Roman Empire, 165.
Home education, 77, 96, 97, 155.
-- happiness dependent on manners, 208.
Hooliganism, 199-200.
Imagination, 189-40.
Impressionism in conduct, 70.
Independence, 40, 92, 207, 232.
Influence.