mistakes in training in, 208; truthfulness in, 211-2. 
Manners and—­
  Class of life, 211; home ties, 207-8; religion, 200-2, 205-6, 211;
   service, 211, 213; the life of to-day, 207. 
Manual work, value of, in education, 82-3, 85, 86; a corrective to
   eccentricity, 83; domestic occupations, 85-93. 
Mathematics, 114, 116-8, 121. 
Matilda of Tuscany, 223. 
Mechanical toys, 106-7. 
Melancholic temperament, the, 26, 28. 
Mercier, Cardinal, quoted, 69, 71, 72. 
Metaphysics, 68. 
Middle-class education, 81. 
Mind, quiet of, 221, 231-2; habits of mind in children, 125; development
   of, 140-1, 169-73. 
Minds:  the best of, in women, 231-2; 5; classes of, 61-6. 
Modernism, 13. 
Montalembert, quoted, 88. 
More, Blessed Thomas, 26, 99.
Mouvement Feministe, 219. 
Music, place of, in education, 191-4; aims of study in, 193;
   intellectual aspect of, 192. 
Myths, value in teaching history, 170.

Nagging, in teaching manners, 204. 
Natural Science, 67, 114-6, 118-22. 
  —­Theology, 68, 72-3. 
Nature Study, 114, 122-6; aims of, 122; books, 123-4. 
Neoker de Saussure, Mme., quoted, 47-8, 54. 
Needlework, 87-9, 121. 
Nervs fatigue, 84. 
“Nerves,” women subject to, 70. 
Newman, Cardinal, quoted, 112, 164. 
Newnham College, 218. 
Nightingale, Florence, 219. 
Non-Catholic parents, and schools held by Religious, 59.
  —­schools, 151, 166. 
Nonconformist type of character, 23-6. 
Nonentities, good, 38-40. 
North of England Ladies’ “Council of Education,” 218. 
Nuremberg, Pirkheimer family of, 222. 
Nurse, the English and the Irish, 31-2. 
Nursery shrine, the, 105, 106. 
Nursing, 89, 218-9.

Obedience, training in, 43. 
Observation of children, 35.
  —­training in, 81, 119-26. 
Oral composition, 138; oral lessons, 74, 180. 
Organization and development, 80, 87. 
Our Lady, right thoughts of, 8-10. 
Oxford and Cambridge Degrees, 220.
  —­girl students at, 218.

Painting and drawing, 191-6. 
Parents:  and teaching about God, 3; and teaching of manners, 208. 
Pasteur, 115. 
Pater, Walter, cited, 130. 
Patience, value of, 40, 212; mental and moral, in women, 163. 
Patriotism, 39, 170-1. 
Paula, St., 224. 
Peasantry, Catholic, simplicity of manners in, 211. 
Penance, Sacrament of, 29. 
People of great promise, 231. 
Personal work, educational advantages of, 88. 
Piety, childishness in, 10. 
Philosophy, 60-75; method of study in, 66-74; relation to revealed
   truth, 73. 
Phonetics, 155. 
Physical exercise, 82. 
Pico de Mirandola, 26. 
Pirkheimer family of Nuremberg, 222. 
Piscopia, Lucretia, 222. 
Pius VII, 177. 
Pius X, life of labour of, 99. 
Plants, care of, for chilflren, 126. 
Play, 104-5, 111, 112; and character, 86, 105, 107; of the nursery,