Whereas Browning's "An incident of the French camp" appeals to them by pride of courage as it does to us by pathos.

It may not be a gem, poetically speaking, but it lives.

As children grow older it is only fair to allow them some choice in what they learn and recite, to give room for their taste to follow its own bent; there are a few things which it is well that every one should know by heart, but beyond these the field is practically without limits.
Perfect recitation or reading aloud is very rare and difficult to acquire.

For a few years there was a tendency to over-emphasis in both, and, in recitation, to teach gesture, for which as a nation we are singularly inapt.

This is happily disappearing, simplicity and restraint are regaining their own, at least in the best teaching for girls.