application of certain principles to the teaching of some of the books
required for admission to college.

References by page or line to the book under discussion are to the texts
of the Gateway Series.

For suggestions concerning the plan of the book and certain of its
details, I am under obligations to Dr. Henry van Dyke. I desire also to
express my thanks for helpful criticism to several of my fellow teachers
in the Morris High School, especially to Mr. Harold E. Foster who has
kindly read most of the manuscript.

G. S. BLAKELY.
THE MORRIS HIGH SCHOOL.

CONTENTS

PAGE

THE TEACHING OF THE NOVEL 7

Outline for the Study of _Ivanhoe_ 10

" " " " " _The Vicar of Wakefield_ 16

" " " " " _Cranford_ 20

" " " " " _Silas Marner_ 24

THE TEACHING OF NARRATIVE POETRY 30

Outline for the Study of _The Lady of the Lake_ 33

" " " " " _The Ancient Mariner_ 40

" " " " " _The Idylls of the King_ 44

THE TEACHING OF LYRIC POETRY 54

Outline for the Study of _L'Allegro_ and _Il Penseroso_ 55

" " " " " _Lycidas_ 57

" " " " " _The Deserted Village_ 60

THE TEACHING OF THE DRAMA 63

Outline for the Study of _The Merchant of Venice_ 67

" " " " " _As You Like It_ 72

" " " " " _Julius Caesar_ 75

" " " " " _Macbeth_ 79

" " " " " _Comus_ 83

THE TEACHING OF THE ESSAY 86

Outline for the Study of the _Sir Roger de Coverley Papers_ 88

" " " " " Irving's _Sketch-Book_ 93

" " " " " Franklin's _Autobiography_ 99

Outline for the Study of Carlyle's _Essay on Burns_ 101

" " " " " Macaulay's _Life of Johnson_ 104

" " " " " Burke's _Speech on Conciliation_ 107

" " " " " Emerson's _Essays_ 114