Dalgairns, Fr., cited, 12. 
Damoiseaux, in days of chivalry, 203
Dancing, 110-11. 
Dante, “Paradiso,” quoted, 60. 
Death, right thoughts of, 7. 
De Bonald, cited, 73. 
De Ghantal, St. Jane F., quoted, 76. 
De Gramont, Marquise, quoted, 41. 
Degrees, different significance of, for man and woman, 220-1. 
Democratic age, 5, 207. 
Democracy in the nursery, 208. 
De Ravignan, Pere, quoted, 105. 
Devotion:  requirements of, 10; to our Lady, 205, 218. And see
   Self-devotion. 
Devotions of Blessed Sacrament and Sacred Heart entrusted to women,
   223.
  —­to the Saints, 10. 
Difficulties of mind, 61-6. 
Discipline and obedience, 42. 
Dogmatism in teaching, 53. 
Domestic occupations, 81, 85-92, 93, 121. 
Doubts and difficulties as to faith, 14. 
Dressmaking, 88. 
Drudgery, need of, 96, 98. 
Duty and endurance, 96.

Eccentricity, 83-5. 
Educated, a well-educated girl, 231. 
Education—­
  Aims in, 88, 89, 159, 230-1. 
  Board of, 80-1, 95, 119, 120, 121.
  and character, 21, 231. 
  Demands of girls’, 77. 
  A “finished,” 230-1. 
  Higher Education of women, 214-28. 
  Home education, 77, 96, 97, 155. 
  Intermediate, 87,116. 
  Intellectual and practical, contrasted, 91. 
  Last years of, 213.
  and lesson books, 80. 
  Life the test of, 230.
  and material requirements of life, 86. 
  Middle class, and practical work, 81. 
  Mistakes in English, 119-21.
  the opportunity of the teacher, 229,
  Practical, 81, 91; practical aspect of, 122. 
  Problems in, 76 et seq. 
  Religious, 1-20.
  and religious orders, 58-9. 
  State control in, 217. 
  System of 1870, 34, 120. 
  “Ugly stage” in, 230.
  of women, changes in, 215.
  of young children, 78-9, 96-7. 
Educational advantages of personal work, 88. 
Educational controversies, 1, 99, 116, 118, 151, 218.
  —­experiments in America, 34.
  —­pressure levels original thought, 184. 
Educators, qualities in great, 99; fundamental principles of, 99, 156.
  —­of early childhood, types of, 31-2. 
Elementary schools, 97. 
Elizabeth, the two Saints, 224. 
Emerson on manners, 198. 
Encouragement, need of, 50. 
English characteristics, 180, 137, 216-7.
  —­language, 128, 150; study of, 127-49; mathod in study, 131;
   characteristics of style, 129-30; American influences on, 127-8;
   traces of Elizabethan, in America, 128; new words in, 129; children’s
   English, 129-31. And see Composition, Conversation, Literature,
   Reading.
  —­martyrs, 172.
  —­portraits in Berlin, 129-30. 
Essay writing, 138-42. 
Ethics, 68, 70, 71, 73. 
European history, 165, 166. 
Eustoohium, St., 224. 
Examination programme, a professional danger, 61. 
Example, power of, 38, 46. 
Excitement, evil of, 100, 231.
Exempt persons, 86.