In conclusion, I have to request two things especially; the one that as I am about to leave this world I may have by me for my consolation some honourable churchman, in order that I may daily examine the road that I have to traverse and be instructed how to complete it according to my religion, in which I am firmly resolved to live and die. This is a last duty which cannot be denied to the most wretched and miserable person alive; it is a liberty which you give to all foreign ambassadors, just as all other Catholic kings allow yours the practice of their religion. And as for myself, have I ever forced my own subjects to do anything against their religion even when I had all power and authority over them? And you cannot justly bring it to pass that I should be in this extremity deprived of such a privilege. What advantage can accrue to you from denying me this? I hope that God will forgive me if, oppressed by you in this wise, I do not cease from paying Him that duty which in my heart will be permitted. But you will give a very ill example to other princes of Christendom of employing towards their subjects and relatives, the same harshness which you mete out to me, a sovereign queen and your nearest relative, as I am and shall be in spite of my enemies so long as I live.
INDEX
Aims of Study, 13
Amount of Material, 18
Appendix, 136
First Christmas
Tree, The, 136
First Thanksgiving,
The, 140
Letter of
Mary Queen of Scots, 143
Origin of
the Easter Bunny, 137
Story of
St. Valentine, 138
Bibliography, 130
Black-board Work in Teaching History, 27, 31, 40, 47, 50
Capture of Quebec, The, 66
Characteristics of a Good Text-book, 24
Chronological Chart, 128
Chronological Method, 21
Civics, 20, 51, 52
Civilization and Inventions, 119
Clergy Reserves, The, 36
Colours of the Flag, The, 73
Combination of Methods, 25
Comparative Method, 22
Concentric Method, 22
Confederation of the Canadian Provinces, 107
Constitutional Liberty in Canada, 124
Correlation of Subjects, 39, 40, 50
Course of Study, 1
Current Events, 49
Dates, 47
Devices for Teaching, 127
Dramatization of History, 46
Drill and Review, 31
Empire Day, 75
Feudal System, 100
First Christmas Tree, The, 136
First Thanksgiving, The, 140
Flag, The, 68
Flag Days, 72
Florence Nightingale, 62
Genealogical Tables, 37, 128
Historical Sense, The, 17