There are other subjects, such as history, geography, and English, which can be made delightful by being treated dramatically.

The word "drudgery" has no meaning for the Utopian child.

A group of children in the highest class recently committed to memory the whole "Trial Scene" of the _Merchant of Venice_--some 300 lines or so of blank verse--in order that they might give themselves the pleasure of acting it.

They accomplished this feat in a little more than a month.

In the ordinary elementary school the child who has committed 150 lines to memory in the course of a year has done all that is required of him.