56-8, 171. 
Characters, modern, 26, 83; cardinal points in study of children’s,
   34-7. 
Characteristic cadence in speaking, 54.  Characteristics, of the age, 39;
   of British culture, 130; of English style, 129-30; of girls’ work,
   218. 
Charges against the Church, 179. 
Chaucer, 127. 
Cheltenham College, 94, 218. 
Child, attitude of, towards books, 36.
  —­martyrs, 10.
  —­study, 35, 57.
  —­vocabulary of an “only,” 132. 
  —­Wordsworth’s “model child,” 32-3.
  See also Catholic Child. 
Childhood, friendships formed in, 11.
  —­impressionability of, 173. 
Childishness in piety, 10. 
Childlike spirit of Catholic child, 29. 
Children, 30.
  —­books for, 144-6; attitude to books, 36.
  —­characteristics of, 36, 66, 56, 82-3, 109-10, 123; candour, 180;
   habits of mind, 126; sensitive to influences, 46; as critics, 136;
   like real people, 56-6; dislike compromise, 175.
  —­delicate, 9, 50, 84, 86.
  —­development of, 82; mental development, 140-1, 169-73.
  —­eccentric ways in, 84.
  —­groups observable among, 23, 26-8, 87, 62,125.
  —­and lessons; a simple life essential, 100; do not know how to learn,
  101; answers, 102.
  —­letters of, 188-9.
  —­and love of nature, 124,126.
  —­no orphans within the Church, 80.
  —­and playtime solitude, 108-9. souls of, 200.
  —­training of, 32-3. 
Chivalry:  age of, 202; religious spirit of, 165. 
Choleric temperament, the, 26. 
Church, the—­
  Abuses in, exaggerated, 179. 
  Ceremonial of, 205-6. 
  Characterised as the Great Master who educates us all, 434; as the
   Guardian of Truth, 239; the Teacher of all nations, 58-9, 99. 
  Example of, as teacher, 43; influence on Catholic taachers, 99-100.
  in France, 165.
  and history, 165. 
  Ideals for man and woman in, 118, 225. 
  Music of, 193-4. 
  Needlework for, 89.
  the pioneers of, 92.
  as a teacher of manners, 200-3, 205.
  testimony to, from Non-Catholic sources, 59, 178. 
Classes, advantages of large, 97. 
Classical studies, 151-2
Classics, English, for the young, 145. 
“Clever” children, the so-called, 125. 
Colonial life, 92. 
Common sense, 65. 
Communion, First, 29. 
Composition, oral, 138; written, 137, 139-42. 
Concentric method in teaching, 167. 
Confirmation, 29. 
Contentment, 90. 
Contrasts, method of, in teaching of art, 189. 
Control and “handling” in training children, 200. 
Controversies. See Educational Controversies. 
Conventionality, 198-9. 
Conventions, code of, 199. 
Conversation, 132-7; of girls, 182-4; principles in, 137. 
Cooking, 90, 121.  Correction, value of, 42.  Cosmology, 68. 
Countrymen and nature, 124-5. 
Crimean War and women’s work, 219. 
Criticism and correction, 42-3; administered by the Church, 44.
  —­evils of merely destructive, 183; reading lesson as an exercise in,
   136; of essays, 142. 
Critics, gravity of children as, 136. 
Cross-roads in a girl’s life, 140. 
Cruelty, 199. 
Crusades, ideals of the, 165. 
Curiosity concerning evil, 14; evil of curiosity in reading, 149.