It furnishes the bases for oral recitations and examinations as in
other subjects.
It is logical, systematic, thorough.
It is a book for use by schools, teachers, and students.
NOTES:
1: From the "Table Talk."
2: Play to the children Schubert's song entitled "The Organ-man."
3: Phillips Brooks says in one of his sermons ("Identity and
Variety"): "Every act has its perfect and entire way of being
done."
4: Bohn edition, p. 35.
5: Read to the children such parts of Francesca Alexander's "Christ's
folk in the Apennine" as seem to you pertinent.
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.
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