self — The fundamental basis of all efforts on skates — The fear that causes a fall ' — Lean on the outer edge — Fancy skating — A pretty sight — Skating on rollers — The difference in the two methods — What can be done on roller skates. Walk- ing— A neglected exercise — How to become a good walker — The difference between city promenading and walking — The kind of shoes to wear — "A ten- mile morning constitutional " — Ladies' walking parties — What women are capa- ble of in the way of walking — English country ladies — Locomotion of the city belle — Something to be ashamed of — Certain sanitary rules about walking. Billiards — A game at first popular with the nobility — An attractive in-door game — To learn to play billiards — How to manipulate the balls with the cue — A natural aptitude not always possessed for the game — The mechanical movements to be learned — The quickest way to learn the game. Bathing and Swimming — The art of swimming a valuable essential to good health — Increasing popularity of swimming — Rules for healthy sea-bathing — When to bathe — When not to do so — When to leave the water — Cramps — How to swim — Presence of mind the chief requisite — How animals swim — The Indians natural swimmers — " Why " — When the art is an impossible one to attain — The motion of the limbs in swimming — How to act under a painful circumstance — The editor of London Truth — The philosophy of breathing the true secret of learning to swim. Row- ing— The chances of accidents — No girl should go out alone unless a swimmer — The action of dipping, pulling, lifting and pushing the oar — Make haste slowly — Feathering the oar — The muscles of the wrist. Chess — A scientific in-door recreation — An easy game to learn — A mental rest, not a mathematical study — Books of instructions — Tlaeir characteristics — Nerve and strategic skill required, not book knowledge — Chess analysis — Hints to beginiiers — ^^Directions 87" THE LIBRARY IN THE HOME. The completeness of home-life — The thing wanting in homes — St. Paul an intellectual architect — A heathen philosopher's amazement — Unfinished characters — A want in most homes — The effect of flowers — The color cure — In what life consists — Plato's teachings — Tastes in books — The Bishop of Winchester's opinions — Book -borrowers — A vulgar habit — Some annolators — An intellectual small pox — Scribblers and note-takers — A good plan — The lieginnings of a library — General culture versus special knowledge — Dickens and Thackeray — Some other authors" — Archbishop Trench's opinion — A guiding principle — Different mental foods — Poetry — Its rank and influence — Indiscriminate reading — Charles. Kingsley — Early scepticism — Destructive influences — Wordsworth's " excursion " — What poetry is — Two studies — Shakespeare's and Milton's lives — What is invaluable in a library — Some good essays — What boys like — Bulwer Lytton's CONTENTS. Xlll advice — Dickens' child-history — " If" — Mrs. Barbauld's poem — General Wolfe's declaration — Thomas Edward — The Scotch naturalist — The books one should read — A good motto Ii8 CHOICE OF OCCUPATION.

AI-modernized reading of the original text

self — The fundamental basis of all efforts on skates — The fear that causes a fall ' — Lean on the outer edge — Fancy skating — A pretty sight — Skating on rollers — The difference in the two methods — What can be done on roller skates. Walking— A neglected exercise — How to become a good walker — The difference between city promenading and walking — The kind of shoes to wear — "A tenmile morning constitutional " — Ladies' walking parties — What women are capable of in the way of walking — English country ladies — Locomotion of the city belle — Something to be ashamed of — Certain sanitary rules about walking. Billiards — A game at first popular with the nobility — An attractive in-door game — To learn to play billiards — How to manipulate the balls with the cue — A natural aptitude not always possessed for the game — The mechanical movements to be learned — The quickest way to learn the game. Bathing and Swimming — The art of swimming a valuable essential to good health — Increasing popularity of swimming — Rules for healthy sea-bathing — When to bathe — When not to do so — When to leave the water — Cramps — How to swim — Presence of mind the chief requisite — How animals swim — The Indians natural swimmers — " Why " — When the art is an impossible one to attain — The motion of the limbs in swimming — How to act under a painful circumstance — The editor of London Truth — The philosophy of breathing the true secret of learning to swim. Rowing— The chances of accidents — No girl should go out alone unless a swimmer — The action of dipping, pulling, lifting and pushing the oar — Make haste slowly — Feathering the oar — The muscles of the wrist. Chess — A scientific in-door recreation — An easy game to learn — A mental rest, not a mathematical study — Books of instructions — Tlaeir characteristics — Nerve and strategic skill required, not book knowledge — Chess analysis — Hints to beginiiers — ^^Directions 87 The completeness of home-life — The thing wanting in homes — St. Paul an intellectual architect — A heathen philosopher's amazement — Unfinished characters — A want in most homes — The effect of flowers — The color cure — In what life consists — Plato's teachings — Tastes in books — The Bishop of Winchester's opinions — Book -borrowers — A vulgar habit — Some annolators — An intellectual small pox — Scribblers and note-takers — A good plan — The lieginnings of a library — General culture versus special knowledge — Dickens and Thackeray — Some other authors" — Archbishop Trench's opinion — A guiding principle — Different mental foods — Poetry — Its rank and influence — Indiscriminate reading — Charles. Kingsley — Early scepticism — Destructive influences — Wordsworth's " excursion " — What poetry is — Two studies — Shakespeare's and Milton's lives — What is invaluable in a library — Some good essays — What boys like — Bulwer Lytton's CONTENTS. Xlll advice — Dickens' child-history — " If" — Mrs. Barbauld's poem — General Wolfe's declaration — Thomas Edward — The Scotch naturalist — The books one should read — A good motto Ii8

The hearthstone; or, Life at home