will never produce the wished-for results.
Play is the natural, the appropriate business and occupation of the
child left to his own resources, and we must strive to turn our
lessons into that channel,--only thus shall we reach the highest
measure of true success.

Third, we must strive by constant study and thought, by entering into
the innermost chambers of the child-nature, and estimating its
cravings and necessities, to penetrate the secret, the soul of the
Froebel gifts, then we shall never more be satisfied with their
external appearances and superficial uses.

NOTE. In arranging the blocks of the sixth gift, place the
eighteen bricks erect, in three rows, with their broad faces
together. On top of these place nine of the square-faced
blocks, thus forming a second layer. The third layer is
formed by placing the remaining three blocks of this class on
the back row, and filling in the space in front with the six
pillars, placed side by side.

READINGS FOR THE STUDENT.

Paradise of Childhood. _Edward Wiebe_. Pages 27-29.
Kindergarten Guide. _J._ and _B. Ronge_. 20-31.
Kindergarten Guide. _Kraus-Boelte_. 113-145.
Koehler's Kindergarten Practice. Tr. by _Mary Gurney_. 31, 32.
The Kindergarten. _H. Goldammer_. 105-110.
Stones of Venice. _John Ruskin_.
Architecture, Mysticism, and Myth. _W. K. Lethaby_.
The Sources of Architectural Types. _Spencer's Essays_, vol. ii.
page 375.
The Two Paths. _John Ruskin_. (Chapter on Influence of Imagination
in Architecture.)
Discourses on Architecture. _E. E. Viollet-le-Duc_. Tr. by _Henry
Van Brunt_. (First and Second Discourses.)

FROEBEL'S SEVENTH GIFT

"The properties of number, form, and size, the knowledge of
space, the nature of powers, the effects of material, begin
to disclose themselves to him. Color, rhythm, tone, and
figure come forward at the budding-point and in their
individual value. The child begins already to distinguish
with precision nature and the world of art, and looks with
certainty upon the outer world as separate from himself."
FRIEDRICH FROEBEL.

"Froebel's thin colored planes correspond with the mosaic
wood or stone work of early man." H. POESCHE.

"There is nothing in the whole present system of education
more deserving of serious considera