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-stuff, 259;
forces which act in education, 259;
we must believe in, 260;
moves altogether when it moves at all, 276;
demands method, 334
miracles, 148
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, 36
Montaigne, on history, 169
Moral, impulse, 17;
offences bred in the mind, 188;
training, 58, 59
morality, school, 188
morals, everyday and economics: citizenship, 185-189
Mornings in Florence, by John Ruskin, 323
Muirhead, Professor, 3
Munich, 285, 306;
Schools, 125, 280, 286
‘Murdstone, Mr.,’ 81
Music, 329
Musical Appreciation, by Mrs. Howard Glover, 217, 218
Napoleon, 5;
a great reader, 305, 306
Napoleonic wars, 125, 279, 283
Narration, 99, 115, 165, 166, 180, 182, 190, 258-261, 291, 292;
method of, xxx, 6, 15-17, 29, 30, 51, 64-65, 155, 163, 172-173, 191, 241, 244, 304;
v. reproduction, 18, 30, 272;
of slum children, 45, 63;
depends on single reading, 6, 15, 171, 241, 258, 261, 263, 267, 291, 293, 304;
a preparation for public speaking, 86, 124;
literary expression in, 90;
Dr. Johnson on, 160;
must not be interrupted, 172, 191;
in the teaching of languages, 211-213, 276;
a natural power, 191
National Gallery, The, 215
natural history, the teaching of, 220
natural selection, 4
Nature Note Books, 217, 219, 223
Nature Study, xxx, 73, 154, 219, 328
needlework, 234
New Testament, 165, 187;
teaching of, must be grounded on Old, 161
Newton, Sir Isaac, 231
Nietzsche, 3
Nightingale, Florence, 141
Nineteenth Century and After, 270
note-taking, 245, 257
Obedience, natural, necessary and fundamental, xxix, 68-79, 97, 134;
dignified, 70;
willing, 70;
the test of personality, 134
obligation, 17
obscene passages, 341
Old Testament, 160-165, 341;
as a guide to life, 273
opinions, v. ideas, 110;
of teacher, 288
opportunity, doctrine of equal, 92, 179;
universal, a fallacy, 343
oral lessons, xxvi, 15, 271
order, how to keep, 45
Ourselves, Our Souls and Bodies, 188, 189
Pagan, The, 250
‘Page, Ann,’ 331
Paget, Dr. Stephen, on suggestion, 82
Paley, 9
‘Paracelsus,’ 331
Parents and Children, 108
Parents’ Associations, xxviii
Parents’ National Educational Union, xxix, 6, 9, 23, 62, 79, 159, 171, 217, 253, 268, 270;
mission of, to all classes, xxvii
P.N.E.U. Philosophy, xxix;
fits all ages, satisfies brilliant children, helps the dull, secures attention, interest, concentration, 28
Parents’ Union School, xxviii, 13, 45, 78, 212, 217, 223, 233, 235, 254, 269, 275-277, 293;
books in, 271;
education free to Elementary Schools, 296
Parthenon Room, 175
Pascal, 256
Pasteur, 318
Paterson, Mr. A., 118, 119, 121
patriotism, a sane, 174
Paul, St., xxvii, 188, 309
Pelmanism, the indictment of, 250, 252
‘Pendennis, Arthur,’ 159
People’s High Schools in Denmark, 283-286
Person, a child is a, xxix, 13, 18, 29, 36, 44, 238;
chief responsibility of a, to accept ideas, xxxi;
marks of an educated, 1, 100;
the more of a, the better citizen, 3, 76, 147;
the measure of a, 10, 80;
a, built up from within, 23;
a, is a mystery, 238;
a, measured by the wide and familiar use of substantives, 261;
a, brought up first for his own uses, then for society, 329;
a, who ‘lives his life,’ 329;
nobility of a, 334
personality, respect due to, xxix, 24, 81-84, 97, 100, 125, 129;
development of, 5, 147;
of teacher, 7, 172;
undue play of, 78, 82, 129;
in narration, 18, 260
Perthes, Friedrich, 341
‘Peter Pan,’ 59
Pett Ridge, Mr., 119
‘Petulengro, Jasper,’ 224
Peveril of the Peak, 282
philosophy, 43;
a, necessary to life, 334;
a consummate, 337
physical training, xxx, 48, 72, 154, 233, 255
pictures v. descriptions, 340
picture study, 214-217, 275
Pied Piper, The, 48
Piozzi, Mrs., 160
platitudes, 326
Plato, 25, 27, 59, 148, 187, 337, 340;
on ideas, 10, 105, 108;
on knowledge, 127, 235
‘play way,’ a, 251, 255;
not avenue to mind, 38
pleasure, grand elementary principle of, 248
Plutarch, 109, 185-187;
on history, 274
poetry, 59, 72, 157
Poland, 184
Prayer Book, The, 169
prejudices, 326
‘Prettymans, the Miss,’ 251
progress, fetish of, 297
Promethean fable, 322
Protagoras, 25
Prussia, 5, 279, 306
pseudo-knowledge, 340
psychology, English, 4;
mythology of ‘faculty,’ 4;
said to rest on feeling, 5;
v. sociology, allied to pathology, 27;
modern, 66;
little known of, 253
Public Schools, 1, 74, 78, 85, 91, 105, 120, 188, 251, 252, 265, 266, 297, 301, 308-313, 326, 344;
our educational achievement, 308;
ignorance of boys, 309, 310
public opinion, 314, 320
Punch, 34, 95
questionnaire, dangers of, 54, 257
‘Quickly, Mrs.,’ 331
R’s, the three, 63
raconteur, a good, 173
reading, a single, 6, 15, 171, 241, 258, 261, 263, 267, 291, 293, 304;
desultory, not education, 13, 189;
in order to know, 14;
and writing, 30, 244;
must be consecutive, 261, 267
Reason, 259; the way of the, xxxi;
present in the infant, 37;
must not be deified, 55;
justifies any notion, 55, 143;
confounded with right, 56;
does not begin it, 140;
brings infallible proofs of any idea, 139, 315;
works involuntarily, 142;
is subject to habit, 147;
is fallible, 150, 314;
and rebellion, 314;
cannot take the place of knowledge, 314
reflection, 25
religion, 14, 40, 43, 46, 64, 73, 79, 239, 289;
teaching of, 159-169;
two aspects of, 160-161;
difficulties in, 162, 164
Rembrandt, 63, 215
Renaissance, The, xxv, 9, 54;
Italian and French, 311;
Schools, 343
Repington, Colonel, 232, 252
reproduction, 259
‘Responsions,’ 311
retention, 259
revision of lessons, 6, 9, 15, 171, 241, 245, 262
rewards, 7
Richard III, 143
Richelieu, 90
Roberts, Lord, 141
Rosetta Stone, 63
Rossetti, 340
Rousseau, J. J., 325, 338, 339
Ruskin, John, 110, 152, 230, 322, 323, 326
Russia, 320;
Soviet, 145
St. Cross, 332
Salisbury, Lord, 281
Saviour of the World, The, 167
Scandinavia, education in, 123, 125
scholarship, an exquisite distinction, 310;
v. knowledge, 305
schools, not merely a nursery for the formation of character, 264;
find substitutes for knowledge, 266
Schwärmerei, 49
Science, xxx, 14, 31, 40, 42, 51, 59, 154, 157, 239, 256;
teaching of, 218-230, 275;
approached by field-work, with literary comments, 223, 256;
fatal divorce between, and the ‘humanities,’ 223, 318;
must rouse wonder, 224, 317;
the mode of revelation granted to our generation, 318;
waiting for its literature, 318;
of relations, 327;
of the proportion of things, 327
Science, Social, 14
Scott, Sir Walter, 110, 182, 190, 261
Scottish philosophers, 11
scrupulosity of to-day, 101
Secondary Schools, 127;
a liberal education in, 250-278
self-authority, 17, 71, 74, 75, 76
self-culture, not an ideal, 133
self-direction necessary, 131
self-education comes from within, 23;
education must be, 26, 28-32, 38, 77, 99, 240, 241, 289
self-expression, 66, 108, 276, 326, 327
Self-Help, by Dr. Smiles, 248
self-knowledge, 131, 137
sensory activities, 2, 48
Shakespeare, 55, 124, 143, 167, 170, 182, 183, 245, 270, 274, 314, 341
Shaw, Mr. Bernard, 27
Sisyphus, 240
‘Skimpole, Harold,’ 231
Socialism, 320
Socrates, 49, 302, 332;
use of questioning, 17
Sophocles, 124
soul, well-being of the, 63;
the Holy of Holies, 63;
satisfaction for, 64
specialisation, dangers of, 53, 254
spelling, 271
Spirit, Divine, xxxi;
is the man, 5;
education is of the, 12, 26, 30;
born of spirit, 39;
use of term, 65;
acts upon matter, 100;
is might, reveals itself in spirit, works only in freedom, 125, 284
spontaneity, condition of development, xxxi
‘Squeers, Mr.,’ 101
stability, mark of educated classes, 179
Statue and the Bust, The, 133
Stein, 279
Steinthal, Mrs. Francis, xxv
stops, use of, 191
Stuart educational ideals, 326
“Studies serve for delight,” xxvi, 7, 19, 266;
make for personality, 5
Suggestion, xxxi, 82, 83;
a grave offence, 129;
weakens moral fibre, 129;
causes involuntary action, 129;
weakens power of choice, 130
superman, 3, 4
Sweden, 285
Switzerland, education in, 125
syllabus, points to be considered in a, xxx, 154, 268;
a wide, 256;
the best, 268;
a, must meet demands of mind, 256;
sterile, of schoolboy, 268
sympathy of numbers, 247
‘tales,’ 30, 132, 190
teacher, part of, in education, 6, 19, 118, 130, 237, 240, 241, 246, 260, 261, 304;
personality of, 7, 48, 78, 82, 129, 172;
intellectual apparatus of, 11;
not a mere instrument, 32;
must understand human nature of child, 47;
underrates tastes and abilities of children, 52, 238;
must read aloud with intention, 244;
comes between children and knowledge, 247;
finds education a passion, 251
teaching how to learn, a farce, 348
Tennyson, 138, 333
things, “are in the saddle,” 7, 260;
children occupied with, 31
thinking, not doing, a source of character, 278
thought, not simply a function of brain, 2, 4, 260;
great, necessary for children, 5, 12, 130;
alone appeals to mind, 12;
begets thought, 12, 303;
action follows on due, 24;
our, not our own, 60, 137;
right, not self-expression, follows upon an idea, 130;
socialistic, fallacies in, 144-147;
sins committed in, 188;
common basis of, 264, 298
Thucydides, 124
Timon of Athens, 44
‘Titanic,’ 335
Trades’ Unions, 315;
Guilds, 319
Traherne, 34, 36, 37, 40
Training, intellectual, 2, 24, 147, 255;
physical, 2, 6, 20, 48, 255;
vocational, 2, 3, 5, 6, 287, 302;
not education, 255
Treitschke, 3
Trench, 167
Trollope, A., 251
truth, justice in word, 61
Tudor women, 311
Tugendbund, 6, 279
Ulysses, 41
Undine, xxv
Universities, People’s, 123
unrest comes from wrong thinking, 60;
Labour, 92, 179, 286, 297, 300, 319;
Indian, 184
Van Eyck’s, ‘Adoration of the Lamb,’ 322
Vasari, 54
Vaughan, 35
verbal understanding v. dealing with books, 172
Vienna, Congress of, 170
village community life, 286
Vittorino, 310
Voltaire, 156
Waverley Novels, The, 63, 325
Wellington, The Duke of, 102, 308
Whichcote, xxix, 33
Whitby, 223
White, Gilbert, 223
wilfulness, signs of, 37
Will, the way of the, xxxi, 128, 131;
function of, to choose, 128, 129, 133;
action of, is character, 129;
the safeguard of a man, 130;
and danger of suggestion, 130;
education must fortify, 131;
the governing power of man, 131;
fallacies concerning, 132;
nourished upon ideas, 132;
must have objects outside self, 133;
the function of man, 133;
implies understanding, 133;
a free agent, 133;
is supreme, 135;
needs diversion, 136;
free, not free thought, 136, 137;
ordering of, 137;
is the man, 314
Witte, Count, 130
words, beauty of, 151;
vehicle of truth, 151;
use of, 316
Wordsworth, William, 35, 93, 166, 180, 238, 276, 320, 322
work, the better man does the better, 282
working men and their leisure, 42
worship, a sublime ideal, 317
Wren, Sir Christopher, 54
writing, 30
Yorkshire, Drighlington School, xxv, 236
forces which act in education, 259;
we must believe in, 260;
moves altogether when it moves at all, 276;
demands method, 334
miracles, 148
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, 36
Montaigne, on history, 169
Moral, impulse, 17;
offences bred in the mind, 188;
training, 58, 59
morality, school, 188
morals, everyday and economics: citizenship, 185-189
Mornings in Florence, by John Ruskin, 323
Muirhead, Professor, 3
Munich, 285, 306;
Schools, 125, 280, 286
‘Murdstone, Mr.,’ 81
Music, 329
Musical Appreciation, by Mrs. Howard Glover, 217, 218
Napoleon, 5;
a great reader, 305, 306
Napoleonic wars, 125, 279, 283
Narration, 99, 115, 165, 166, 180, 182, 190, 258-261, 291, 292;
method of, xxx, 6, 15-17, 29, 30, 51, 64-65, 155, 163, 172-173, 191, 241, 244, 304;
v. reproduction, 18, 30, 272;
of slum children, 45, 63;
depends on single reading, 6, 15, 171, 241, 258, 261, 263, 267, 291, 293, 304;
a preparation for public speaking, 86, 124;
literary expression in, 90;
Dr. Johnson on, 160;
must not be interrupted, 172, 191;
in the teaching of languages, 211-213, 276;
a natural power, 191
National Gallery, The, 215
natural history, the teaching of, 220
natural selection, 4
Nature Note Books, 217, 219, 223
Nature Study, xxx, 73, 154, 219, 328
needlework, 234
New Testament, 165, 187;
teaching of, must be grounded on Old, 161
Newton, Sir Isaac, 231
Nietzsche, 3
Nightingale, Florence, 141
Nineteenth Century and After, 270
note-taking, 245, 257
Obedience, natural, necessary and fundamental, xxix, 68-79, 97, 134;
dignified, 70;
willing, 70;
the test of personality, 134
obligation, 17
obscene passages, 341
Old Testament, 160-165, 341;
as a guide to life, 273
opinions, v. ideas, 110;
of teacher, 288
opportunity, doctrine of equal, 92, 179;
universal, a fallacy, 343
oral lessons, xxvi, 15, 271
order, how to keep, 45
Ourselves, Our Souls and Bodies, 188, 189
Pagan, The, 250
‘Page, Ann,’ 331
Paget, Dr. Stephen, on suggestion, 82
Paley, 9
‘Paracelsus,’ 331
Parents and Children, 108
Parents’ Associations, xxviii
Parents’ National Educational Union, xxix, 6, 9, 23, 62, 79, 159, 171, 217, 253, 268, 270;
mission of, to all classes, xxvii
P.N.E.U. Philosophy, xxix;
fits all ages, satisfies brilliant children, helps the dull, secures attention, interest, concentration, 28
Parents’ Union School, xxviii, 13, 45, 78, 212, 217, 223, 233, 235, 254, 269, 275-277, 293;
books in, 271;
education free to Elementary Schools, 296
Parthenon Room, 175
Pascal, 256
Pasteur, 318
Paterson, Mr. A., 118, 119, 121
patriotism, a sane, 174
Paul, St., xxvii, 188, 309
Pelmanism, the indictment of, 250, 252
‘Pendennis, Arthur,’ 159
People’s High Schools in Denmark, 283-286
Person, a child is a, xxix, 13, 18, 29, 36, 44, 238;
chief responsibility of a, to accept ideas, xxxi;
marks of an educated, 1, 100;
the more of a, the better citizen, 3, 76, 147;
the measure of a, 10, 80;
a, built up from within, 23;
a, is a mystery, 238;
a, measured by the wide and familiar use of substantives, 261;
a, brought up first for his own uses, then for society, 329;
a, who ‘lives his life,’ 329;
nobility of a, 334
personality, respect due to, xxix, 24, 81-84, 97, 100, 125, 129;
development of, 5, 147;
of teacher, 7, 172;
undue play of, 78, 82, 129;
in narration, 18, 260
Perthes, Friedrich, 341
‘Peter Pan,’ 59
Pett Ridge, Mr., 119
‘Petulengro, Jasper,’ 224
Peveril of the Peak, 282
philosophy, 43;
a, necessary to life, 334;
a consummate, 337
physical training, xxx, 48, 72, 154, 233, 255
pictures v. descriptions, 340
picture study, 214-217, 275
Pied Piper, The, 48
Piozzi, Mrs., 160
platitudes, 326
Plato, 25, 27, 59, 148, 187, 337, 340;
on ideas, 10, 105, 108;
on knowledge, 127, 235
‘play way,’ a, 251, 255;
not avenue to mind, 38
pleasure, grand elementary principle of, 248
Plutarch, 109, 185-187;
on history, 274
poetry, 59, 72, 157
Poland, 184
Prayer Book, The, 169
prejudices, 326
‘Prettymans, the Miss,’ 251
progress, fetish of, 297
Promethean fable, 322
Protagoras, 25
Prussia, 5, 279, 306
pseudo-knowledge, 340
psychology, English, 4;
mythology of ‘faculty,’ 4;
said to rest on feeling, 5;
v. sociology, allied to pathology, 27;
modern, 66;
little known of, 253
Public Schools, 1, 74, 78, 85, 91, 105, 120, 188, 251, 252, 265, 266, 297, 301, 308-313, 326, 344;
our educational achievement, 308;
ignorance of boys, 309, 310
public opinion, 314, 320
Punch, 34, 95
questionnaire, dangers of, 54, 257
‘Quickly, Mrs.,’ 331
R’s, the three, 63
raconteur, a good, 173
reading, a single, 6, 15, 171, 241, 258, 261, 263, 267, 291, 293, 304;
desultory, not education, 13, 189;
in order to know, 14;
and writing, 30, 244;
must be consecutive, 261, 267
Reason, 259; the way of the, xxxi;
present in the infant, 37;
must not be deified, 55;
justifies any notion, 55, 143;
confounded with right, 56;
does not begin it, 140;
brings infallible proofs of any idea, 139, 315;
works involuntarily, 142;
is subject to habit, 147;
is fallible, 150, 314;
and rebellion, 314;
cannot take the place of knowledge, 314
reflection, 25
religion, 14, 40, 43, 46, 64, 73, 79, 239, 289;
teaching of, 159-169;
two aspects of, 160-161;
difficulties in, 162, 164
Rembrandt, 63, 215
Renaissance, The, xxv, 9, 54;
Italian and French, 311;
Schools, 343
Repington, Colonel, 232, 252
reproduction, 259
‘Responsions,’ 311
retention, 259
revision of lessons, 6, 9, 15, 171, 241, 245, 262
rewards, 7
Richard III, 143
Richelieu, 90
Roberts, Lord, 141
Rosetta Stone, 63
Rossetti, 340
Rousseau, J. J., 325, 338, 339
Ruskin, John, 110, 152, 230, 322, 323, 326
Russia, 320;
Soviet, 145
St. Cross, 332
Salisbury, Lord, 281
Saviour of the World, The, 167
Scandinavia, education in, 123, 125
scholarship, an exquisite distinction, 310;
v. knowledge, 305
schools, not merely a nursery for the formation of character, 264;
find substitutes for knowledge, 266
Schwärmerei, 49
Science, xxx, 14, 31, 40, 42, 51, 59, 154, 157, 239, 256;
teaching of, 218-230, 275;
approached by field-work, with literary comments, 223, 256;
fatal divorce between, and the ‘humanities,’ 223, 318;
must rouse wonder, 224, 317;
the mode of revelation granted to our generation, 318;
waiting for its literature, 318;
of relations, 327;
of the proportion of things, 327
Science, Social, 14
Scott, Sir Walter, 110, 182, 190, 261
Scottish philosophers, 11
scrupulosity of to-day, 101
Secondary Schools, 127;
a liberal education in, 250-278
self-authority, 17, 71, 74, 75, 76
self-culture, not an ideal, 133
self-direction necessary, 131
self-education comes from within, 23;
education must be, 26, 28-32, 38, 77, 99, 240, 241, 289
self-expression, 66, 108, 276, 326, 327
Self-Help, by Dr. Smiles, 248
self-knowledge, 131, 137
sensory activities, 2, 48
Shakespeare, 55, 124, 143, 167, 170, 182, 183, 245, 270, 274, 314, 341
Shaw, Mr. Bernard, 27
Sisyphus, 240
‘Skimpole, Harold,’ 231
Socialism, 320
Socrates, 49, 302, 332;
use of questioning, 17
Sophocles, 124
soul, well-being of the, 63;
the Holy of Holies, 63;
satisfaction for, 64
specialisation, dangers of, 53, 254
spelling, 271
Spirit, Divine, xxxi;
is the man, 5;
education is of the, 12, 26, 30;
born of spirit, 39;
use of term, 65;
acts upon matter, 100;
is might, reveals itself in spirit, works only in freedom, 125, 284
spontaneity, condition of development, xxxi
‘Squeers, Mr.,’ 101
stability, mark of educated classes, 179
Statue and the Bust, The, 133
Stein, 279
Steinthal, Mrs. Francis, xxv
stops, use of, 191
Stuart educational ideals, 326
“Studies serve for delight,” xxvi, 7, 19, 266;
make for personality, 5
Suggestion, xxxi, 82, 83;
a grave offence, 129;
weakens moral fibre, 129;
causes involuntary action, 129;
weakens power of choice, 130
superman, 3, 4
Sweden, 285
Switzerland, education in, 125
syllabus, points to be considered in a, xxx, 154, 268;
a wide, 256;
the best, 268;
a, must meet demands of mind, 256;
sterile, of schoolboy, 268
sympathy of numbers, 247
‘tales,’ 30, 132, 190
teacher, part of, in education, 6, 19, 118, 130, 237, 240, 241, 246, 260, 261, 304;
personality of, 7, 48, 78, 82, 129, 172;
intellectual apparatus of, 11;
not a mere instrument, 32;
must understand human nature of child, 47;
underrates tastes and abilities of children, 52, 238;
must read aloud with intention, 244;
comes between children and knowledge, 247;
finds education a passion, 251
teaching how to learn, a farce, 348
Tennyson, 138, 333
things, “are in the saddle,” 7, 260;
children occupied with, 31
thinking, not doing, a source of character, 278
thought, not simply a function of brain, 2, 4, 260;
great, necessary for children, 5, 12, 130;
alone appeals to mind, 12;
begets thought, 12, 303;
action follows on due, 24;
our, not our own, 60, 137;
right, not self-expression, follows upon an idea, 130;
socialistic, fallacies in, 144-147;
sins committed in, 188;
common basis of, 264, 298
Thucydides, 124
Timon of Athens, 44
‘Titanic,’ 335
Trades’ Unions, 315;
Guilds, 319
Traherne, 34, 36, 37, 40
Training, intellectual, 2, 24, 147, 255;
physical, 2, 6, 20, 48, 255;
vocational, 2, 3, 5, 6, 287, 302;
not education, 255
Treitschke, 3
Trench, 167
Trollope, A., 251
truth, justice in word, 61
Tudor women, 311
Tugendbund, 6, 279
Ulysses, 41
Undine, xxv
Universities, People’s, 123
unrest comes from wrong thinking, 60;
Labour, 92, 179, 286, 297, 300, 319;
Indian, 184
Van Eyck’s, ‘Adoration of the Lamb,’ 322
Vasari, 54
Vaughan, 35
verbal understanding v. dealing with books, 172
Vienna, Congress of, 170
village community life, 286
Vittorino, 310
Voltaire, 156
Waverley Novels, The, 63, 325
Wellington, The Duke of, 102, 308
Whichcote, xxix, 33
Whitby, 223
White, Gilbert, 223
wilfulness, signs of, 37
Will, the way of the, xxxi, 128, 131;
function of, to choose, 128, 129, 133;
action of, is character, 129;
the safeguard of a man, 130;
and danger of suggestion, 130;
education must fortify, 131;
the governing power of man, 131;
fallacies concerning, 132;
nourished upon ideas, 132;
must have objects outside self, 133;
the function of man, 133;
implies understanding, 133;
a free agent, 133;
is supreme, 135;
needs diversion, 136;
free, not free thought, 136, 137;
ordering of, 137;
is the man, 314
Witte, Count, 130
words, beauty of, 151;
vehicle of truth, 151;
use of, 316
Wordsworth, William, 35, 93, 166, 180, 238, 276, 320, 322
work, the better man does the better, 282
working men and their leisure, 42
worship, a sublime ideal, 317
Wren, Sir Christopher, 54
writing, 30
Yorkshire, Drighlington School, xxv, 236