SEE TRYON, ROLLA M. TUCKER, THEODORE F. Answers to awkward questions of childhood, by Theodore F. Tucker & Muriel Pout; introd.

Early childhood education; its principles and practices.

Wilton, the Quaker, was the greatest talker of them all, which he declared was due to suppression in childhood.

Now that we are at home in the quiet round of duties and employments which have filled so many (outwardly at least) peaceful years, and that perhaps my continuance among them reckons but by months, oh for a truly obedient, affectionate, filial spirit, both to my heavenly Father and the precious guardians of my childhood!

Beyond the rest it smiles for me, Thither my thoughts will roam The home beloved of infancy, My childhood's precious home!

* * * I yet feel as strongly as ever a daughter's love to the home of my childhood.

Perhaps some grim, hard-riding Spaniard made his last ride here; weary at last of war, turned his dead face back to Spain and the pleasant valleys of his childhood.

Knowing nothing of her father's rank or position, she had flattered herself into believing that she had been Madaline's best friend in childhood.

She may have been twenty years of age, perhaps, but in some way she took him back to childhood.

Curled up in a ball between the sheets his body presently slept, while his mind, intensely active, traveled off into that vast inner prairie of his childhood days and called her name aloud.

In the background loomed always the dim sense of the Discovery and Experiment approaching inevitably, just as in childhood the idea of Heaven and Hell had stood waiting to catch himreal only when he thought carefully about them.

Spinrobin's heart leaped with excitement as he listened, for this idea of "Naming True" carried him back to the haunted days of his childhood clairvoyance when he had known Winky.

This, however, only dawned upon him later, when the experiment was complete and he had time to reflect upon it all next day; for, meanwhile, to see the proportions he had known since childhood alter thus before his eyes was unbelievably dreadful.

He did not dare uncover his face to see, for he was still dominated by the memory of Mr. Skale's portentous visage; but his ears were not so easily denied, and he was positive that he heard a voice that called his name as though it were the opening phrase of some sweet, childhood lullaby.

Pallor hung about his face, but there was a light radiating through ita high, luminous whitenessthat made the secretary think of his childhood's pictures of the Hebrew prophet descending from Mount Sinai, the glory of internal spheres still reflected upon the skin and eyes.

Realizing in some long-forgotten fashion of childhood the fearful majesty of the wrath of Jehovah, yet secretly undismayed because each felt so gloriously lost in their wonderful love, the bodies of Miriam and Spinrobin dropped instinctively upon their knees, and, still tightly clasped in one another's arms, bowed their foreheads to the ground, touching the earth and leaves.

Every one of us in childhood has constructed such an invisible dramatis personæ, but it never occurred to our nurses to correct the composition by careful comparison with Balzac.

The lady was a Fusilier, Agricola's sister, a person of rare intelligence and beauty, whom, from early childhood, the secret counsels of his seniors had assigned to him.

" The account of the childhood days upon the plantation at Cannes Brulées may be passed by.

The simple little Daisy which Burns has so sweetly commemorated is the same flower that was "of all flowres the flowre," in the estimation of the Patriarch of English poets, and which so delighted Wordsworth in his childhood, in his middle life, and in his old age.

In our remembrances of the happy meadows in which we played in childhood, the daisy's silver lustre is ever connected with the deeper radiance of its gay companion, the butter-cup, which when held against the dimple on the cheek or chin of beauty turns it into a little golden dell.

Longfellow said of the childhood of Agassiz, that "Nature, the old nurse, took The child upon her knee, Saying: 'Here is a story-book Thy Father has written for thee.

In the manuscripts of God.'" It is not the child Agassiz alone whom Nature thus invited; to the whole human race, in its childhood, its adolescence, its maturity, she has always been saying the same thing.

In fact, a large proportion of the offenses against order committed in school are the mere momentary action of the natural buoyancy and life of childhood.

Most persons remember through life some instances in their early childhood in which they were disgraced or ridiculed at school, and the permanence of the recollection is a test of the violence of the effect.