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.

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