"My days, my friend, are almost gone, My life has been approved, And many love me; but by none "Now both himself and me he wrongs, The man who thus complains! I live and sing my idle songs Accidents, 64 Accuracy, 45, 74, 91 Adams, John Quincy: "Man Adaptation of parts of animals to mode of life, 32 Adverbial construction, 114 Affections, how to work on, 64 Alphabetical order, 97, 120 Anatomy of animals, 28 Anglo-Saxon words, 119, 120 of, 31 Animals, 27, 28, 32, 48, 102, 133, 135 Annotation, 112, 119 Apostrophe, 116 Appleton's Readers," 60, 74, 84 Arnold, Matthew: Extracts, 140, 141 Arrangement, 19, 95, 104 Argument, 15 Arithmetic, 80, 87 Audubon, John James, "Life," 29 Author's construction analyzed, 113 Barnes : 66 History of the United States," 60 Barometer, use of, 46 Bees, study of, 31 Beetles, 132 Biographical sketches, 128 Birds, 28, 29; literature of, 29, 161 California Series of Readers, 74, Canning peaches (example), 63 Carlyle, Thomas: Extracts, 140, 144 "Hero Worship," 119 "Order for a Picture, An," 94 "Canterbury Tales, The," 39 ་ Chemistry, 76 Children, matters of ignorance in City schools, materials for com- Civil war, subject, 49 Class exercises, 103 Classes, large, 70; lessons for very young, 26; small, 70 Clouds, observation of, 47 Color, expression of, 83 Commendation, vii, 19 Common errors, 68-70, 90, 124, 125 books, 72; inspection of, 72 choosing sides in, 21 correct, not necessarily good, 71 early work in, II examples of uninteresting, 71 Construction, 81, 92, 112-114, 121 Cooper, James Fenimore: 66 Spy, The," 100 Copying, 102, 123 Correction of papers, viii Correctness, vii Country districts, 51, 61 Country roads, plants of the, 33 Cowper, William: "John Gilpin," Criticism, 31, 106; class, 14, 21, Engravings, use of, 30, 77 Enunciation, distinct, 81 Errors, correction of, 71; gram- Ethical points, 64 Etymology, 110, 112, 115, 117 Exaggeration, 122 Exclamation, 116 Excursions, 52, 53 Exercises, 82-87, 117 Expansion, of compound words, Explanations to pupils, 67, 72, 98 Facility, gained by practice, v, of, 40 Figures, 95, 112, 114, 116, 121 Life of, 65 "Snow Image, The," 96 Health, 50, 62, 102; intellectual Higginson, Thomas Wentworth: History of the United States," 60 Hill, Thomas, extracts, 139, !44 Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 127; extracts, 141, 142 Homer: Job, examples from, 109 ture," 154 Journal, keeping, 43, 105, 106 |