May, Beauties of, 122, 123; Customs in the Olden Time, 242, 243.
May, Gardening in, 113–117; the Country in, 241, 242.

Mechanical Girl, the, 63.

Method, Value of, 296.

Miller, Thomas, quoted, 129, 255.

Milton, quoted, 89, 106.

Mitford, Miss, her Garden, 101; her Description of a Nutting Ex-
pedition, 265, 266; quoted, 219.

Modesty, true definition of, 66; its Importance insisted on, 67.
Monteith, Lake of, 77.

Moor Park, Sir W. Temple's Garden at, 82.

Moral Sayings, 39.

Mordaunt, Lady, 62.

More, Hannah, and her Sisters, 10.

More, Sir Thomas, quoted, 51.

Mozley, Dr., quoted, 51.

Music, 18; Robert Schumann's Hints upon, 19-21.

Natural History, the Study of, recommended, 27.
Needlework, 26.

Nightingale, the, 239, 240.

'Noctes Ambrosiana' (by Professor Wilson), quoted, 268.
November, Gardening in, 149, 155; the Country in, 265.
Nutting, described, 260--263.

Patmore, Coventry, quoted, 280.

Pfeiffer, Ida, reference to, 279.

Pianoforte-playing, Remarks upon, 22.

Poetry, English, what to read in, 162–165.

Politeness at Home, 12.

Political Economy, Manuals on, 208.

Poor, the, on Visiting, 32.

Pope, Alexander, quoted, 298, 299.

Portia, Shakespeare's, as a Model for Wonen, 280, 281.

Primrose, the, in English Poetry, 220, 221, 227.

Proctor, Adelaide Anne, quoted, 106.

Reading aloud, Remarks upon, 25.

Reading, its pleasures, described by Sir John Herschel, 135;
Charlotte Brontë upon, 293, 294.

Riding, 32.

Rinking, 33.

Robinson, William, quoted, 157.

Rooks, the, Characteristics of, 222.

Roses, Catalogue of the best Kinds of, 152-154.

Roses, their Associations, 128; in History and Poetry, 253, 254.
Ruskin, John, quoted, 214, 215.

School-friendships, to be formed with great Care, 51.

School, the Girl at, 35.

Schumann, Robert, on Pianoforte-playing, 19—21.

Sciences, the, Division of, 208.

Scientific Reading, Value of, 207; a Course of, indicated, 209.

Seaside, the, our Girls at, 251, 252.

Shakespeare, quoted, 29, 81, 159, 224, 225, 226.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, quoted, 102.

Shenstone, William, quoted, 86, 87.

Sidney, Sir Philip, and his Sister, 7; quoted, 170.

Singing, 18-23.

Sisters, Affection of, and their Brothers, illustrated by reference to
Philip and Mary Sidney, 7; Theodore Körner and his Sister, 7;
Macaulay and his Sisters, 8; the three Brontës, 10; Hannah
More and her Sisters, 10.

Skating, 33.

Self-culture, 43.

Self-reliance, 44.

Self-respect, what it is and means, 71.

September, Gardening in, 138-145; the Country in, 257.

Seton, Mary, and Queen Mary of Scotland, 55.

Smith, Alexander, quoted, 117.

Smith, Sydney, his Urbanity, 65.

Sneak, the, 37.

Society, Girls in, 58.

Soft Answer, the, Value of, 12.

Spooner, Catherine (Mrs. Tait), 12; and Miss Marsh, 54.

Spring, the Garden in, 118; in praise of, 229, 230.

Spenser, Edmund, quoted, 216, 231.

Stag, the Wounded, Poem by Charlotte Brontë, 291, 292.

Stäel, Madame de, early Life of, 313, 314.

Steele, Sir Richard, saying of, 65.

Summer, St. Luke's, 145.

Superficial Girl, the, 63.

Swimming, 32.

Sympathy, Value of, 68; how Encouraged by reading of good

Fiction, 170.

328

Tale-bearing, a bad Habit, 37.
Taylor, Sir Henry, quoted, 76.

INDEX.

Temper, good, happy Influence of, 50.

Temple, Sir William, his Garden at Moor Park, 69.
Tennyson, quoted, 26, 28, 100, 104, 159, 282, 285.

Theology, English, Notes on the best Works in, 197–199.
Thomson, James, quoted, 240.

Thoroughness, essential to Success, 22.

Toady, the, 38.

'Tom Brown's School-days,' reference to, 36.

Travel and Discovery, list of celebrated Books'of, 195–197.
Travers, Cecilia, 61.

Trench, Archbishop, quoted, 137, 140.

Twickenham, Pope's Garden at, 83.

Tytler, Sarah (Mrs. Kettle), quoted, 14, 319, 320.

Types of Girlhood, described, 58, 59.

Vere, Aubrey de, quoted, 17, 304.

Violet, the, in Poetry, 225.

Voice, a low, soft, an excellent thing in Woman, 71.

Walking, recommended as an agreeable exercise, 217.
Warner, Charles Dudley, quoted, 114.

Wasps' Nests, Attack upon, 262, 263.

Wax, modelling in, 28.

Weeds, as a Type of Human Depravity, 114.

Wilford, Florence, quoted, 15, 60.

Winter, Amusements for, 267–269.

Winter, Characteristics of, 149, 150, 265, 266

Woman, a true, portrayed, 281, 282,

Wordsworth, quoted, 11, 75, 106, 210, 224, 281, 303.

Yonge, Miss, quoted, 29, 38, 199, 200, 201.
Young Ladies, certain Traits of the Character of, 58.

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