About the Book
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ... East winds, 1, 77; 6,17. Easter at St. Peters, Bome, 1, 151, 200. Eating one's words a wholesome diet in some cases, 5, 266. Eaton, his account of the dissolution of Parliament in 1655 quoted by Mason, 2, 34. Ecclesiastes, 4, 323; cynicism of, 2, 104. Ecclesiasticus, the Man of Leisure due to, 6, 220. Edda, Elder, 1, 106; 2,359. Edda age, the sea-serpent a last relic of, 1, 108. Editing, Mr. Hazlitt's theory of, 1, 336, 347. See also, Emendation. Editors, Matzner on, 1, 319. Editors of early English literature, necessary qualifications of, 1, 259, 267. Edmondson, William, 2, 65. Education, undervalued in America, 1, 6; too often cramps and stunts nature, 32; M., a famous river-driver an example of an educated man, 31; in early New England, 2, 15, 18; 6, 147; effect of teaching by rote, 4, 358; the library a means of self-education, 6, 83; the three R's system, 83; the power of thought its highest result, 89; its importance to the state, 97; the tendency to lay the blame for the pupil's short-comings on the teacher, 150; liter-ature not to be sacrificed to language in teaching, 152; literature and phi-lology both to be cultivated, 153; the office of the higher instruction the training of guides for society, 159; liberal studies always to take the lead, 160; usefulness of variety in study, 161; dangers of the volun-tary system, 162; the value of com-pulsion, 163; is learning naturally repulsive to youth? 164; due to faulty methods of teaching, 164; the study of the classics, 165; ad-vantages of study abroad, 167; a college education no longer prized, 170; free public schools desirable, but not free text-books, 170; neces-sity of an organic relation between higher and lower schools, 171; the general purpose of colleges to train the...
