19 Mais parlons d’autres choses!: But let us talk of other things!
20 Cristabel: A ballad by English Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834).
21 Kallikak book: The Kallikak family was the subject of a best-selling 1912 study by Henry Goddard, The Kallikak Family: A Study in The Heredity of Feeble-mindedness, which argued that genetic transmission caused mental deficiency.
22 Wells’s latest novel: H. G. Wells was a prolific and popular novelist, but this might be The Wife of Sir Isaac Harmon (1914).
23 bakshish: In some Oriental countries, a small sum of money given as gratuity or as alms.
24 Massachusetts Agricultural College: The University of Massachusetts was founded in 1863 as a land grant institution in Amherst, and became a leading center for agricultural research and instruction.
25 Gösta Berling: 1891 novel by Nobel Prize-winning Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940) about twelve cavaliers led by a charming renegade priest named Gösta Berling.
26 Genetic Philosophy of Education: Probably refers to a work by David J. Hill, Genetic Philosophy, which argues that truth is not to be made, but to be discovered through recurrence and order.
27 Dolly Dialogues: A light novel by the British novelist Anthony Hope (1863-1933).
28 Bloomingdale Asylum: Opened in 1821, a place of “moral treatment” for the care of the insane.
29 Montessori method: An educational method founded by Dr. Maria Montessori (1870-1952). Rather than “teaching” a child, the Montessori environment was designed to stimulate the child’s interest in learning with little or no adult intervention.
30 The Laird o’ Cockpen: Popular melody by Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne (1766-1845).
31 Monarch of the Glen ... Stag at Bay: Two mid-nineteenth-century oil paintings of majestic stags by English painter Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802-1873). His brother Thomas engraved many of his paintings.
32 Bernard Shaw: George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Dublin-born playwright, critic, Socialist, satirist, and wit. Perhaps his most famous play was Pygmalion, which was first produced in 1914.
33 R.L.S.: Scottish essayist, novelist, and poet Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894).
34 Did you once see Shelley plain . . . : The first lines of Robert Browning’s poem “Memorabilia.”
35 Sally Lunn: A rich round bread bun.
36 Thoreau . . . Walden: Walden is the 1854 record of the two years that American naturalist and writer Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) spent in an isolated hut he constructed on Walden Pond.
37 Herbert Spencer’s “System of Synthetic Philosophy”: Spencer (1820-1903) was an English philosopher of the great scientific movement of the second half of the nineteenth century. His Synthetic Philosophy proposed an inscrutable power called the unknowable and presented progress as the supreme law of the universe.
38 Diary of Marie Bashkirtseff: The journal of Russian artist and writer Marie Constantinova Bashkirtseff (1860-1884). See also Daddy-Long-Legs note 37.
39 Century: The Century: A Popular Quarterly, was a New York magazine that published illustrated articles on history and politics, as well as fiction. The issue of May-October 1914 had several articles on China.
40 Froebel theory: Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel (1782-1852), a German philosopher and educational reformer, invented the concept of “kindergarten” in his The Education of Man (1826), arguing for the necessity of play as an important educational and developmental tool.
41 Burns: Robert Burns (1759-1796), the great Scottish poet, wrote “To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough” (1785): “Wee, sleekit, cow’rin, tim’rous beastie, / O, what a panic’s in thy breastie!”
42 S.P.C.A.: Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the first humane society in America, founded in 1866, which still exists today.
43 House of Usher: “The Fall of the House of Usher,” a famous gothic story of a doomed family by American poet, fiction writer, and critic Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849).
44 The palm dreams of the pine ...: “The Palm and the Pine,” adapted from Heine, was a poem by the American writer Sidney Lanier.
45 Ellen Key: Swedish-born author (1849-1926) of The Century of the Child (1900), an argument that the central work of society should be aimed at molding children into great men.
46 Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society’s Orphan Asylum at Pleasantville : Society founded in 1879 to care for destitute children, orphaned or not. Rather than housing all the children under one roof, the school opened in 1912 with 25 cottages and a school built on 175 acres of field and woods. House mothers were assigned to the 480 children in an effort to give the children personalized attention.
47 Luca della Robbia: Italian sculptor (1400-1482). The della Robbia family of sculptors and ceramists created glazed terracotta figures on many buildings in Florence.
48 Numa Roumestan: 1881 novel by French novelist Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897).
49 published correspondence of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning: English poet Elizabeth Barrett married English poet Robert Browning in 1846 after a secret courtship. Their letters during their two-year courtship were published after their deaths and became models of romantic writing.
50 Huxley’s letters: Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) was an English biologist. See also Daddy-Long-Legs note 47.
51 “John Anderson, my joe John”: Poem by Robert Burns, which celebrates a long and happy marriage.
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