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( Scott, Kenilworth. 1895- < Goldwin Smith, Cowper (English Men of ( Letters Series) 2. Grammar and Rhetoric. 3. Poetical Literature. 1891. Longfellow : Hymn to the Night, A Psalm of Life, The Day is Done, Evangeline, Res ignation, The Builders, The Ladder of St. Augustine, The Warden of the Cinque Ports, The Fiftieth Birthday of Agassiz, The Vil lage Blacksmith, The Arsenal at Springfield, The Bridge, King Robert of Sicily, The Birds of Killingworth, The Bell of Atri, From my Armchair, Auf Wiedersehen. 1892. Tennyson : The May Queen, " You ask me Why," " Of Old Sat Freedom," " Love Thou Thy Land," Locksley Hall, Ulysses, St. Agnes, Sir Galahad, Enid, The Revenge, In the Children's Hospital. 1893. Wordsworth (Arnold's Selections) : Reverie of Poor Susan, We are Seven, Tinturn Ab bey, Lucy Gray, The Fountain. Michael, Heart-Leap Well, To the Daisy, To a High land Girl, Stepping Westward, The Solitary Reaper, At the Grave of Burns, At the Resi dence of Burns, To the Cuckoo, Fidelity, Peel Castle, French Revolution, Ode to Duty, Imitations of Immortality, The Hap py Warrior, Resolution and Independence, Yarrow Visited, To a Skylark, A Poet's Epitaph, and Sonnets 3, 6, 17, 19, 20, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29. 1894. Scott : Lady of the Lake. 1895. Tennyson : Recollections of the Arabian Nights, The Poet, The Lady of Shalott, The Lotus-Eaters, Morte d'Arthur, The Day-Dream, The Brook, The Voyage, The Holy Grail. History and Geography. Great Britain and her colonies from the revolution of 1688 to the peace of 18 15, and the Geography relating thereto. Outlines of Roman history to the death of Augustus, and Geography relating thereto. Outlines of Greek history to the battle of Cliaeronea, and the Geography relating thereto. OPTIONAL SUBJECTS INSTEAD OF GREEK. (a) French and German. Or (6) French, and either Physics or Chemistry. Or (f) German, and either Physics or Chemistry, as follows : — Physics. An Experimental course in (a) Dynamics, (l') Heat, (c) Electricity, including an acquaintance with

the Metric System of Units. The courses are defined as follows : Dynamics : Definitions of velocity, acceleration, mass, momentum, force, moment, couple, en ergy, work, centre of inertia: statement of New ton's laws of motion; composition and resolution of forces; conditions for equilibrium of forces in one plane. Definitions of a fluid, fluid pressure at a point, transmission of fluid pressure, resultant fluid pressure, specific gravity, Boyle's law, the ba rometer, air-pump, water-pump, siphon. Heat : Effects of heat; temperature; diffusion of heat; specific heat; latent heat; law of Charles. Electricity : Voltaic cells; chemical action in the cell; magnetic effect of the current; chemical effect of the current : galvanometer; voltameter; Ohm's law; heating effect of the current; elec tric light : current induction; dynamo and motor, electric belh telegraph; telephone. Chemistry. Definition of the object of the science, relations of the physical sciences to Biology, and of Chemis try to Physics. Chemical change, elementary composition of matter. Laws of combination of the elements, atomic theory, molecules, Avagadro's law. The determination of atomic weight, specific he*at, atomic heat, nomenclature, classi fication. The preparation, characteristic proper ties, and principal compounds of the following elements : Hydrogen, Chlorine, Bromine, Iodine, Oxygen, Sulphur, Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Carbon, Silicon. French. Grammar. Composition : (a) Translation into French of short English sentences as a test of the candidates' knowledge of grammatical forms and structure, and the formation in French of sentences of sim ilar character; and (*) translation of easy pas sages from English into French. Translation of unspecified passages from easy French authors. An examination on the following texts : ( Enault, Le Chien du Capitaine. 1 891. Daudet, La Belle Nivernaise 1892. ( Sardou, La Perle moire (the romance). i De Maistre, Voyage autourdemachambre. JDe Pf.yrebrune, Les Fr£res Colombe. 1893. Feuillet, La F6e (the comedy). J Enault. Le Chien du Capitaine. 1894. (. Daudet, La Belle Nivernaise. (Sardou, La Perle moire (the romance), 1895. i De Maistre, Voyage autour de ma chambre.