physical powers? What the effect of (21) on your estimate of the King? Can you find excuse for the King's treatment of Douglas? What is the effect of Braco's message?

CANTO 6

What is the connection of the introductory stanzas with the story of the Canto?

Is the incident in the guard-room of importance? Why is it given so much space? What episode in Canto 4 has led to Ellen's coming to Sterling, instead of obeying her father's commands? Explain Brent's mistake in taking Allan to Roderick. Do you feel Roderick's fate is unjust? Why? Would you prefer to have him die in the battle of Beal-an-Duine? Describe the battle, referring to the map, and explaining position of the armies and mode of attack. Why does Scott check the battle as he does? Would you prefer a victory? For whom? What makes this a fit final scene for Allan;for Roderick?

Whom do you infer the "imprisoned huntsman" of (23-24) to be? Why? When did you last hear of him? What has happened? Why?

Is the scene in which Ellen learns the King's identity a fit close to their intercourse? Why? Is there any excuse for the King's deception? Is the change in relations between Douglas and the King natural? Why? Would you prefer it to be brought about by Ellen? Would you prefer to have Roderick live and be pardoned by Ellen's intercession? Why? Does Malcolm's fate fit his part in the story before this?

Which of Ellen's suitors do you prefer? Why? Whom would you have her marry? What would be the result had she married Fitz-James? Who is the central figure? Show how Scott rouses and diminishes sympathy for Roderick and Fitz-James. Which held sympathy at first? at last?

Make an outline of the action for Ellen, Fitz-James, Roderick, Douglas, thus:

Ellen-Canto 1.

I. Meets the hunter.

1. First appearance.

2. Meeting with Fitz-James.

3. Tells of Allan's prophecy.
4. Takes him to island.

II. At the lodge.

1. Falling sword, etc.

Write essays on these themes:

Highland Hospitality.
A Knight Errant.
A Highland Hunt.
A Faithful Minstrel.
The Fiery Cross.
A Highland Chief.

IN ENGLISH

READING AND PRACTICE.-The candidate for admission will be required
to write a paragraph or two on each of several topics chosen by him from a con-
siderable number-perhaps ten or fifteen-set before him on the examination
paper.

The candidate is expected to read intelligently all the books prescribed. He
should read them as he reads other books; he is expected, not to know them
minutely, but to have freshly in mind their most important parts.

In preparation for this part of the requirement it is important that the candi-
date shall have been instructed in the fundamental principles of rhetoric.

STUDY AND PRACTICE-A certain number of books will be prescribed for
careful study. This part of the examination will be upon subject-matter,
literary form, ana logical structure, and will also test the candidate's ability to
express his knowledge with clearness and accuracy.

In addition, the candidate may be required to answer questions involving the
essentials of English grammar, and questions on the leading facts in those
periods of English literary history to which the prescribed works belong.
Complete List of Works required for the years 1903-1908

* An abridged edition published as No. 35 of Maynard's English Classic Series

↑ Not yet published in Maynerd's English Classic Series,

August, 1903

REGENTS' SYLLABUS

BY THE

Column I. Serial number in Maynard's English Classic Series.
Column II. Price per copy, postpaid.

Column III. Price per dozen copies, postpaid.

Longfellow-Evangeline...

ELEMENTARY ENGLISH

FIRST-YEAR ENGLISH

GRAMMAR

Irving-Essays from the Sketch-Book: "The
Mutability of Literature," and "The Stage
Coach"

LITERATURE

Irving-Essays from the Sketch-Book: "The,
Voyage," "The Wife," "Rip Van Winkle,"
"The Art of Book-Making," "Christmas,"
"The Stage-Coach," "Christmas Eve,"
"Christmas Day," "Stratford-on-Avon,"
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow".
Scott-Ivanhoe...

Scott-The Lady of the Lake....
Longfellow-The Courtship of Miles Standish.

Whittier-Snow-Bound......

SECOND-YEAR ENGLISH

LITERATURE

Hawthorne-Twice-Told Tales: "The Minister's
Black Veil," "Howe's Masquerade," "Lady
Eleanore's Mantle," "Old Esther Dudley,"
"Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe," "The
Prophetic Pictures," "David Swan," "Sights
from a Steeple

*Where no prices are given. the work has not yet been added to this series,

or is published in an abridged form only September 1903.

Texts for the Academic Years 1903, 1904, and 1905
FOR GENERAL READING AND COMPOSITION

WORK

Shakespeare-The Merchant of Venice.
Shakespeare-Julius Cæsar.

Addison-Sir Roger de Coverley

Goldsmith-The Vicar of Wakefield

Coleridge-The Ancient Mariner.

Scott-Ivanhoe...

Carlyle-Essay on Burns..

Tennyson-The Princess.

Lowell-The Vision of Sir Launfal.

George Eliot-Silas Marner..

FOR CAREFUL STUDY

Burke-Speech on Conciliation

Shakespeare-Macbeth..

Milton-Minor Poems:

L'Allegro and Il Penseroso..
Comus.

Lycidas, and Hymn on the Nativity.

Hawthorne-Twice-Told Tales: "The Minister's
Black Veil," "Howe's Masquerade," "Lady
Eleanore's Mantle," "Old Esther Dudley,'
"Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe,"
"The
Prophetic Pictures," "David Swan," "Sights
from a Steeple ".

AMERICAN SELECTIONS

Cooper-The Last of the Mohicans..

Hawthorne-House of the Seven Gables.

Bryant-Thanatopsis...

Lowell-The Present Crisis, My Garden
Acquaintance, A Glance Behind the Curtain,
Commemoration Ode..

Longfellow-The Hanging of the Crane.

Taylor-Lars..

Mitchell-Reveries of a Bachelor.

Irving-The Alhambra..

Emerson-Nature..

Franklin-Autobiography.

Washington-Farewell Address.

Lincoln-Gettysburg Address.

ENGLISH SELECTIONS

Chaucer-The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales Special No.

Spenser-Prothalamion..

27

Shakespeare-The Tempest..

Kellogg's Ed

.30

3.00

Dryden-Song for St. Cecilia's Day, and Alexan

der's Feast..

Wordsworth-Laodameia, and Lines Composed
Above Tintern Abbey...

Browning--The Lost Leader, The Boy and the

88* ྂ 8

†Tennyson's The Holy Grail and The Coming of Arthur are published as Nos. 91 and 128 of Maynard's English Classic Series, bound in paper covers, at 12 cents each, and they are also contained in Idylls of the King, No. 233-234-235 of the series, bound in cloth, at 36 cents a copy.