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The Teaching of the Drama 63 Outline for the Study of The Merchant of Venice 67 " " " " " As You Like It 72 " " " " " Julius Cæsar 75 " " " " " Macbeth 79 " " " " " Comus 83 The Teaching of the Essay 86 Outline for the Study of 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 " " " " " Webster's First Bunker Hill Oration 123 " " " " " Washington's Farewell Address 127 Appendix College Entrance Examinations in English 131

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STUDIES IN ENGLISH

I. THE TEACHING OF THE NOVEL

All will agree that the novel is one of the most important forms of literature for high school study. The fact that almost every boy and girl who is at all interested in reading likes the novel, gives the teacher an excellent opportunity to stimulate the pupil's love for literature and to help him to discriminate between what is true and what is false; between what is cheap and what is worth while. Moreover, the study of the novel is the study of life and character. It is of great human interest, and it may be made an important factor in developing the pupil's ambition, judgment, ideals, and character. Good stories grow in meaning with the growth of mental power. The Iliad and The Odyssey are full of delightful stories for boys and girls, but these same stories, securely fixed in the youthful mind, gain a deeper meaning from experience as the child develops into the man or the woman. Furthermore, interest in a good story leads to other interests. It may encourage a love of nature, stimulating to closer observation. It may awaken a love of history, or of travel, or of some of the innumerable interests of human activity.

Unfortunately, young people's delight in the reading of the novel is a source of danger. The drama and the essay appear so full of difficulties that the student regards their study seriously, as a task, and finds it necessary to apply himself vigorously in order to master them. On the other hand, the novel is so delightful, so easy, that