ertinent.

6: John Ruskin, from the ninth lecture of "Val d'Arno."

7: John Ruskin. Third lecture of "Val d'Arno."

8: Franz Liszt's "Life of Chopin," Chapter V.

9: _Ibid_, Chapter VI.

10: "On Sound."

11: "On Sound" is referred to. The last paragraph of Section 10,
Chapter II, may interest the children. The last two paragraphs of
Section 13 are not only interesting, but they show how simply a
scientist can write.

12: If the original is desired, see Tyndall's "Glaciers of the Alps."

13: Schumann wrote in a letter to Ferdinand Hiller, "We should learn
to refine the inner ear."

14: From the sermon entitled "The Seriousness of Life."

15: Notice sometime how many of our English words have the Latin
_con_.

16: See the fourth chapter of Reuben Post Halleck's "Psychology and
Psychic Culture."

17: For instance, the subject of the C minor Fugue in the first book
of "The Well-tempered Clavicord."

18: The subject of the C sharp minor Fugue.

19: The prelude in E flat minor and the subject of the G sharp minor
Fugue.

20: Robert Schumann.

21: Quoted by Xenophon in the "Memorabilia," Book II, Chapter I, Bohn
edition.

22: "Heroes and Hero Worship," Lecture I.

23: From the sermon entitled "Backgrounds and Foregrounds."

24: I should again suggest the value of letting the children become
familiar with such books as J.H. Parker's "A B C of Gothic
Architecture;" and of having always about plenty of photographs of
great buildings, great men, great works of art and of famous
places for them to see and to know ("_letting_ them _become_
familiar," remember).

25: See R.P. Halleck's "Psychology and Psychic Culture."

26: Read paragraphs 41 and 42 of John Ruskin's "Athena Chalinitis,"
the first lecture of "Queen of the Air."

27: John Ruskin, from the lecture entitled "Franchise," in "Val
d'Arno," par. 206.

28: "Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and
Switzerland." Letter of July 15, 1831.

29: "Letter of December 19, 1831."

30: Read also what is said of Chopin on p. 28.

31: Read to the children "The Wonderful Weaver" in "Old Greek
Stories," by James Baldwin. It is only a few pages in length, and
is well told.

32: Robert Schumann.

33: John Ruskin's "Queen of the Air," par. 102. ("Athena Ergane.")
Read all of it to the children.

34: _Idem_.

35: Lord Bacon, from the essay "Of Great Plac