The influence of the game in vogue in each country will always be felt, but it is worth attention that some games, as hockey, conduce to all the attitudes and movements which are least to be desired, and that others, as basket-ball, on the contrary tend--if played with strict regard to rules--to attitudes which are in themselves beautiful and tending to grace of movement.

This word belongs to our side of the question, not that of the children.

It belongs to our side also to see that hoops are large, and driven with a stick, not a hook, for the sake of straight backs, which are so easily bent crooked in driving a small hoop with a hook.
In connexion with movement comes the question of dancing.

Dancing comes, officially, under the heading of lessons, most earnest lessons if the professor has profound convictions of its significance.

But dancing belongs afterwards to the playtime of life.