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Chapter VIII: Part 8

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Truth in literature, 112-114.

_Vicar of Wakefield_, 44, 56, 152.

Vocabulary, growth of, 209;
Miss Litchfield's view, 77;
of Burke's _Speech_, 139;
of _Ivanhoe_, 160, 162;
of _Macbeth_, 165-171;
of prose, 137;
of _Sir Roger de Coverley_, 147;
of _Treasure Island_, 153, 155;
study of, 76-79, 125, 193;
to be learned first, 74, 110, n.;
to be learned from reference-books, 76.

Washington, George, 22.

Words, value of, 16.

Word-values, 17.

Wordsworth, 49, 239;
_Lesson for Fathers_, 195.

Workmanship, literary, 207-221.

Written work, 126-130;
comparison in, 190;
description in, 127;
in study of _Macbeth_, 187-191;
supreme test in, 129.

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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:

Variations in spelling and hyphenation remain as in the original.

The following corrections have been made to the original text:

Page 165: XIII[original has "XII"]

Page 174: gnaw till the ship springs a leak[original has
"aleak"]

Page 245, under "Examinations": best prepared for by broad
teaching, 122;[original has a comma]

Page 247: Teaching of literature, aim of, 11-27,
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End of Project Gutenberg's Talks on Teaching Literature, by Arlo Bates

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