John Bunyan wrote "The Pilgrim's Progress."
The subject for composition was "A Day in the Woods."

We give the following questions to illustrate our method of conducting an

+Observation Lesson+.--Are _city_ and _Albany_ both names? What difference
can you discover in meaning? What in form? Which of the names just written
are _class_ names? Which are _individual_ names? Mention an individual name
made up of two names; one of three names; one of four. How many capitals do
you find in each of the names just mentioned? Mention seven words that are
written without capitals as class names, and again with capitals as parts
of individual names. Mention a word that is shortened, or _abbreviated_, by
omitting all but the first, or _initial_, letter. Mention an _abbreviation_
containing two letters; one containing three; one containing four. What new
use of the period have you discovered in this exercise? What three words in
this exercise are used together as the title of a book? What four as the
title of a poem? What five as the subject of a school composition? Each of
these groups may be regarded as a kind of individual name. Besides the
first word, what words begin with capitals in each of these three groups?
Notice that these are the principal words.

For another exercise the pupils may copy the following sentences, noting
carefully capitals and punctuation marks:--

1. The city of Chicago is on Lake Michigan.
2. The steamer _City of Chicago_ sails from Jersey City.
3. The island of Cuba is under Spanish rule.
4. The Isle of Man is in the Irish Sea.
5. The Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone is an English statesman.
6. The subject for composition was "The View from my Window."