8. What manner of books must be eschewed?
9. What is the least that should be done to introduce children to the history of England?
10. Why is the early history of a nation better fitted for children than its later records?
11. Why are the old Chronicles profitable reading for them?
12. Name and comment upon a few of the Chronicles upon which children’s knowledge of history should rest.
13. What effect on a child should the reading of such old Chronicles have?
14. Show that children should know something of the heroic age of their own nation.
15. What use may be made of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the British Kings?
16. From what authority should a child get the story of the French wars?
17. Why do Plutarch’s Lives afford the best preparation for the study of Grecian and Roman history?