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INDEX
- Actiology of scoliose, 86
- Alphabet, written, small letters, 95
- — — capital letters, 96
- Ancient and mediæval writing, 112
- Angles of slope in copy books, 26
- Argument against use of slates, 76
- Baginsky, Dr., on Spinal Curvature, 86
- Belgian cabinet edict, 27
- Blackboard, criticism of, 107–8
- — writing, 57, 61, 107, 108
- Blank copy books, minor objections to, 66
- — — — and class teaching, 71
- Blotting paper, necessity of, 80
- Body, hygienic position of, 82
- Bohemian School Board’s Instructions, 92
- Caligraphic merits of vertical writing, 39
- Caligraphy, qualities of good, 27
- Capitals (model alphabet of), 96
- Catalogue of recent works, 127
- “City Press” on writing, 8
- Class teaching, general instructions for, 109
- Classes of letters, details of, 97–100
- Classification of capitals, 103
- — — small letters, 96–7
- Compactness, 52
- — of vertical writing, 35
- Comparison of lengths of outlines, 33
- Congresses and Councils, 124
- Continent, decrees of Boards, etc., 123
- Continuity in writing, 51
- Copy books, kinds of, 56
- — — shapes of, 77
- — — writing specimens, 4, 40
- Defects of blank books summarised, 69
- Delusion of slope, 28
- Desks, kinds of, 74
- — widths of, 75
- “Detroit Free Press,” 9
- Diagram of eyes, 18, 87
- Diagrams of contrasts, 131
- — — legibility, 28–30
- — — lengths, 33
- — — positions, 16, 17
- Directions to writers, 110
- Diversity of positions, 127
- Drawing and writing, 68
- E, different forms of, 54
- Early Saxon handwriting, 112
- Ease in teaching, 36
- Economical merits of vertical writing, 39
- Economy in space, 34
- Educational merits of vertical writing, 39
- Elizabeth, Queen, writing of, 131
- Elizabethan period specimens, 132
- Enthusiasm in teaching, 106
- Example of non-continuity, 51
- Experiments in Vienna schools, 22
- Engraver’s hair line models, 55
- Fashion in writing, 12
- First English sloping alphabet, 116
- Focus, perfect in vertical writing, 18
- German alphabets, two, 22
- — cabinet, edict of, 27
- — handwriting, 111
- Government instructions, 31
- Handwriting and hygiene, 26
- Headline copy books, 56
- Heights of long letters, 54
