CONTENTS.

The Golden Time of School-Days-Good Use must be made of its

Opportunities-Duties must not be neglected-Charles Kingsley's

Lines-Goethe quoted-What Duty is-Pleasure of Honest Work-

Life a Burden to the Inactive-Self-Culture lies in the Girl's own

Hands-What Self-Culture implies - Duties to Teachers - To

Companions-The Want of Self-Reliance to be guarded against

-Elizabeth Carter-Sir Thomas More quoted on Letter-Writing-

A School-Girl's Letter-The Art of Keeping One's Temper to be

cultivated-School-Girl Friendships-Facility in making them-

Their Influence on Character-George Herbert quoted-Dr. Mozley

quoted-Mrs. Delany quoted-The Choice of Friends-Dispositions

and Sentiments to be studied-Higher Natures than our own to be

looked for-John Sterling-Hero-Worshippers needed in the World

-Durability of School-Girl Friendships-Instances of Friendships

formed in Early Life-Susan Edmonstone Ferrier and Miss Clavering

-Mrs. Tait and Miss Marsh-Mary Seton and Mary Queen of Scots

-School Enmities sometimes Inevitable-Jealousy their Promoter-

Rivalry should be Generous-An Ideal to be set before each

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Types of Girls in Society-The Bloom of Girlhood too early lost-

The Girl of the Period-Character Sketches-George Eliot's

'Dorothea Brooke'-Miss Yonge's 'Ethel May'-Miss Wilford's

Gyneth Deshon Lord Lytton's 'Cecilia Travers'— 'Lily

Mordaunt 'The Girl Esthetic-The Girl Theological-The Fast

Girl-The Girl Mechanical-The Girl who Dances-The Girl who

'goes in' for Gymnastics-The Girl Matrimonial-The Superficial

Girl-Quotations from 'Aurora Leigh'-Courtesy the Religion of

Common Life-Examples of it in Good and Great Women-

Bulwer Lytton quoted-Elements of True Courtesy-Modesty to

be cultivated-What constitutes Immodesty-Sympathy an Essential

in Society-Sympathy the nearest Faculty to Genius-Conversation

in Society-Faults to be avoided-Sir William Temple quoted-

Individuality of Style and Expression pleasing—Appreciation by Men

of Intellect in Girls-Low Voices essential to Good Breeding-

Distinct Utterance admired-Self-Respect-The Character of English

Women a precious National Possession-Familiarity to be repressed

-Duties owing to Society-Cheerfulness to be shown, and Readiness

to oblige-Carlyle quoted-Sir Arthur Helps quoted-Longfellow's

Lines on Maidenhood'

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...

'When Epicurus to the world had taught

That pleasure was the chiefest good

His life he to his doctrines brought,

And in a garden's shade that sovereign pleasure sought :

Whoever a true Epicure would be,

May there find cheap and virtuous luxury.'

COWLEY.

Sir Henry Taylor's Lines-Queen Mary's Child Garden-Quotation

from the Author of the Hora Subseciva'-Queen Mary's Garden

at Chatsworth-Corisande's Garden in 'Lothair '-Poetical and

Legendary Associations of Flowers-Browning's Description of an

Old English Garden-A Scene from Mr. Gilfil's Love Story'-

Lines from Shakespeare's 'Midsummer Night's Dream '-Perdita's

'Flowers of the Spring' -Sir William Temple's Garden at Moor

Park-His Essay on Gardening-On Caves and Grottoes-Pope's

Grotto and his Lines thereon-The Imitation of Nature-William

Shenstone's Taste in Gardening-An Extract or Two from his Poems

-Cowley's Lines in Praise of a Garden-Andrew Marvell's Lines

-Attractions of the Elizabethan Gardens-Milton's Picture of the

Garden of Eden-Keats's 'Endymion '-Lord Bacon's Hints on

Gardening--A Succession of Plants for every Season-Flowers and

Plants which give most Fragrance-The Laying-Out of a Garden-

The Green,' or Lawn-Fountains in the Garden-The Heath-

The Earliest Description of a Garden-Lines from the 'Odyssey'

-Mrs. Browning's Aurora Leigh'-Lytton's Description of a

Garden in Lucretia '-Mr. Rochester's Garden in 'Jane Eyre'

-Tennyson's Garden--Miss Mitford's Garden-The Garden in

Shelley's Sensitive Plant '-Mr. Browning's Garden Fancies'—

'Maud's' Garden.

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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER VI.

THE GIRL'S AMATEUR GARDENER'S CALENDAR; OR, ALL

THE YEAR ROUND IN THE GIRL'S GARDEN.

'One by one thy duties wait thee,

Let thy whole strength go to each.'

ADELAIDE PROCTOR.

'Thus with the year

Seasons return.'

MILTON.

'To me the meanest flower that blows can give

Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.'

WORDSWORTH.

Value of a Garden-Size of the Garden-Manuals that may be

Consulted-Successful Gardening-Its Perpetual Interest-Work

for JANUARY-Planting Fruit-Trees-Note for January-Work for

FEBRUARY-Mrs. Loudon quoted on Seed-Sowing-Note for

February-Work for MARCH-The Month for Seed-Sowing—

Quotation from 'A Summer in My Garden'-Note for March--

APRIL-Alexander Smith quoted-A Busy Time for the Gardener

-Note for April-MAY-The Month of the Poets-Spenser's

Description of it-Milton's Stately Verse-Chaucer on the Beauties

of May-Associations of May-A Picture of the Country in May

from Greene Ferne Farm'-Orchises-Fulness of Life-The

Month for Bedding-out'-Note for May-JUNE-The Month of

Roses-Leigh Hunt's Delightful Picture of a Garden-The Feel of

June-A Poet's Dreamland-Associations connected with Roses-

Varieties of Grasses-Beauty of Flower-Gardens in June-Note for

June-JULY-The Maturity of the Year-The Garden no Place for

the Idler-Work to be Done-Note for July-Varieties of Pelar-

goniums or Geraniums and Fuchsias-AUGUST-Autumn Begins—

George Macdonald's Lines-Extermination of Garden Pests-Note

for August—SEPTEMBER-A September 'Scene'-Trench's Autumn

Song-Compensating Pleasures of Autumn-Wm. Howitt's Autumnal

Reflections-The Influence of September in the Garden-A Picture

of the Later Autumn-tide from The Earthly Paradise'-Work for

the Month-Note for September- List of Herbaceous and Alpine

Plants-OCTOBER-Extract from 'A Year in a Lancashire Garden'

-Practical Experience of more value than Theoretical Instruction

-Note for October-The Cultivation of Hyacinths-NOVEMBER-

The Dreariest Month-Wm. Howitt says, No!-Chrysanthemums

recommended-List of Roses recommended-Best Time for Rose-

planting-A Few Good Clematises-DECEMBER-The 'Frost

Spirit' Comes-The Value of Frost--Christmas Roses--Note for

December-Mr. Robinson's Cautions

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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER VII.

THE GIRL'S LIBRARY-WHAT TO READ.

'The dainties that are bred in a book.'

'Too careless often as our years proceed,

SHAKESPEARE.

What friends we sort with, or what books we read.'

'Who loves not knowledge? Who shall rail

Against her beauty? May she mix

With men and prosper! Who shall fix

Her pillars? Let her work prevail.'

COWPER.

TENNYSON.

Pleasures of Reading-Thomas Fuller quoted.-ENGLISH POETRY:

WHAT TO READ-' Vision of Piers the Plowman'-Chaucer-

Herrick-George Herbert-John Milton-Butler-Dryden-Pope-

Young-Thomson-Johnson-Gray-Goldsmith-Crabbe-Camp-

bell-Wordsworth-Coleridge-Moore-Scott-Byron-Shelley-

Keats-Mrs. Hemans-Burns-Hood-Longfellow-Tennyson—

Mrs. Browning-Jean Ingelow-Charles Kingsley and others.

FICTION: WHAT TO READ--Objection of many Parents to Works

of Fiction-Large Number unworthy of Perusal-The Necessity

of some Light Reading'-Prohibition leads to the Defect it would

prevent-Wise Parents will permit the Reading of Fiction-

Selection must be made by them-Only the Best Writers to be

chosen-A Good Novel a Work of Art-Sir Arthur Helps quoted-

Which Writers to abjure-Which to recommend-The Time given

to Novel-Reading must be limited-The Selection of Novels to be

regulated by the Disposition of the Reader-Sir Arthur Helps on

the Merit of Fiction-Sympathy the Faculty most to be cultivated

in Social Life-Higher Fiction cherishes and enforces Sympathy-

Sidney's 'Arcadia '-Defoe's 'Robinson Crusoe'-Richardson's

'Sir Charles Grandison'-Sterne's 'Sentimental Journey'.

Walpole's Castle of Otranto '-Goldsmith's 'Vicar of Wakefield'

-Frances (Fanny) Burney-Mrs. Inchbald's 'Simple Story'-Mrs.

Radcliffe-Mrs. Opie-Maria Edgeworth-Jane Austen-Miss

Ferrier-Miss Mitford-Sir Walter Scott-Cooper-Marryat-

Harriet Martineau-Charles Dickens-Lord Lytton-Disraeli-

Thackeray-Charles Kingsley-Charlotte Brontë-Mrs. Gaskell-

Miss Yonge-Charles Reade-George Macdonald-'George Eliot'

-Mrs. Oliphant-Anthony Trollope-Thomas Hardy-R. D.

Blackmore-William Black-James Payn-Annie Edwardes-Justin

McCarthy.

HISTORY: WHAT TO READ-Importance of History—' Old English

History'-' Life of Alfred the Great'-'History of the Saxons'-

'History of the Norman Conquest'-Lingard's ' History of England'

-Brougham's 'History of England under the House of Lancaster'

CONTENTS.

-Lord Bacon's History of the Reign of Henry VII.'-Froude's

History of England'-Hallam's 'Constitutional History of Eng-

land-Green's History of the English People'-Guizot's 'English

Revolution - Carlyle's 'Cromwell's Letters and Speeches'-

Macaulay's History of England'-Stanhope's 'Life of William

Pitt'-Napier's' History of the Peninsular War'-Miss Martineau's

"History of England'-Justin McCarthy's 'History of Our Own

Times' The Old English Chroniclers-State Papers-Diarists and

Memoir Writers-History of the United States-Our Indian Empire

-Buxton's History of Scotland'-The Study of Ancient History

not to be neglected-No good History of Modern Europe-Much

Assistance in Epochs of History'-History of France-Thiers-

Hazlitt-Sir Walter Scott's 'History of Napoleon Buonaparte'-

Lamartine History of Spain--History of Russia-The Cabinet

Cyclopædia.'

'The

BIOGRAPHY : WHAT TO READ - Sir John Herschel on

Pleasures of Reading'-Uses of Biography-Longfellow's Lines

-Revelations of Biography-Reasons for Studying Biography—

Special Importance of Female Biography to Girls-Extract from

Caroline Herschel's Diary-Episode in the Life of Catharine of

Siena-Margaret Roper's 'Life of Sir Thomas More'-Lucy

Hutchinson's 'Memoirs of her Husband'-Izaak Walton's 'Lives

of Dr. Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker, George Her-

bert, Bishop Sanderson '--Ellwood's History of my Life'-Bunyan's

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners'-Gibbon's Auto-

biography-Boswell's 'Life of Johnson'-Foster's 'Life of Gold-

smith-Johnson's 'Lives of the Poets'-Sara Coleridge's 'Memoirs

and Letters'-Carlyle's 'Life of John Sterling'-Macaulay's Essays'

-Dean Stanley's 'Life of Dr. Arnold '-Miss Lonsdale's 'Life of

Sister Dora'-Mrs. Gaskell's 'Lives of Charlotte Brontë and

Margaret Fuller Ossoli'-Forster's 'Life of Dickens'-Mrs. Kingsley's

'Life of Charles Kingsley '-Miss Yonge's 'Life of Bishop Patti-

son-English Men of Letters-Miss Kavanagh's Women of

Christianity,' and many others.

TRAVEL AND DISCOVERY: WHAT TO READ-Women who are

distinguished for their Travels-Madame Pfeiffer-Lady Eastlake

-Miss Gordon Cumming and others-Explorers of China-Of Africa

---Kinglake's 'Eôthen'-Lord Dufferin's 'Letters'-Dilke's 'Greater

Britain'-Whetham's 'Pearls of the Pacific '--Campbell's 'Logbook

of the Challenger'-Captain_Markham's 'Great Frozen Sea -

African Travel· American Travel - European Travel-Asiatic

Travel.

ENGLISH THEOLOGY: WHAT TO READ-Jeremy Taylor's Works-

Butler's 'Analogy'-Paley-Whately-F. W. Robertson's 'Sermons'

-John Stuart Mill-Farrar's 'Life of Christ'—Stopford Brooke's

'Christ in Modern Life,' and others.

MISCELLANEOUS READING-Miss Yonge's 'Ethel May'-A Liberal

Education for Girls--Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs'-Bacon's 'Essays'

-Edmund Burke on Lord Bacon-Pepys' Diary-Addison and

Steele's Essays-Johnson's 'Rasselas '-Edmund Burke-Matthew

Arnold's Opinion of Burke-Walpole's 'Correspondence'-Cowper's

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