t hand.
To do this they are themselves under the joyful necessity of keeping
close to the great sources. On this last point Mr. Wm. T. Harris says:
"A view of the world is a perpetual stimulant to thought, always
prompting one to reflect on the immediate fact or event before him, and
to discover its relation to the ultimate principle of the universe. It
is the only antidote for the constant tendency of the teacher to sink
into a dead formalism, the effect of too much iteration and of the
practice of adjusting knowledge to the needs of the feeble-minded by
perpetual explanation of what is already simple _ad nauseam_ for the
mature intelligence of the teacher. It produces a sort of pedagogical
cramp in the soul, for which there is no remedy like a philosophical
view of the world, unless, perhaps, it be the study of the greatest
poets, Shakespere, Dante, and Homer."

MAUD MENEFEE.

Chicago, August, 1901.

THE TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PAGE

PIPPA _Robert Browning_ 9
From "Pippa Passes."

MIGNON _Johann Wolfgang von Goethe_ 17
From "Wilhelm Meister."

SIEGFRIED _Richard Wagner_ 27
From "Niebelungen Ring."

A FISH AND A BUTTERFLY
_Robert Browning_ 39
From "Amphibian."

HOW MARGARET LED FAUST THROUGH THE PERFECT WORLD
_Johann Wolfgang von Goethe_ 45
From "Faust."

BEATRICE _Dante Alighieri_ 55
From "The Inferno."

PARSIFAL _Richard Wagner_ 61
From "Parsifal."

THE ANGELUS 67
About the painting by Jean Francois Millet.

FRIEDRICH AND HIS CHILD-GARDEN 73

THE HOLY NIGHT 79
About the painting by Antonio Allegri da Correggio.

SAUL AND DAVID _Robert Browning_ 95
From "Saul."

A GUIDE TO PRONUNCIATION 103

A WORD LIST 103

A LIST OF THE ILLUSTRATIONS.