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3. English, or French, or German? 4. Pure or Mixed Mathematics, or Mental and Moral Science.

In French or German, the requirements are translation of continuous passages and idiomatic sentences into English, and from English into the foreign language, with questions on Grammar.

Special subjects in Latin, Greelf, and English are:

October 26, 1891. 4 Latin. Cicero, De Finibus, Book I; Terence, Adelphi; Roman History, B. C. 31 to D. 37. Gréeelc. Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris; Plato, Phaedo; History of Sicily, B. C. 491 to 289. English. History of English Literature from 1714 to 1744; Sweet: Anglo-Saxon Primer; Sweet: Homilies of Aelfric, pp. 1— 50(Clarendon Press); The Sowdone of Babylone; Addison: The Spectator, No. 556 to the end; Pope: Satires and Epistles.

October 1892.

Latin. Tacitus Annals, Book II.; Juvenal, Satires VIII., X., XIII.; Roman History, B. C. 133 to 78.

Greealk. Homer, Odyssey, Books IX. to XIV.; Thucydides, Book VII.; Early Historic Period of Greek History to B. C. 495.

English. History of English Literature from 1580 to 1620; Sweet: Anglo-Saxon Reader, I.—IX.; William of Palerne(Early English Text Society); Sidney: An Apologie for Poetry; Marlow: Dr. Faustus; Shakespeare: As you like it, and King Lear; Bacon, The Advance- ment of Learning, Book I.

Candidates for the London M. A. Eramination must choose one of the following 4 branches: 1. Classics,

2. Mathematics and Natural Philosophyf,

3. Mental and Moral Science, Political Philosophy, History f Philosophy, Political Economy; 4. Ang kuo of the following languages, with its literature:— English(including Anglo- Saxon), French, German, Italian, Celtic, Hebrew(with Syriac), Sanskrit, Arabic.¹

As far as these examinations refer to schools, where preparations for them may take place, certain advantages are not to be denied. By publishing the subjects of examination, some time previously, the universities compel all schools which prepare pupils, to adhere to the same branches and mostly to the same books. A certain uniformity of the different schools is effected by that, and a certain limit is put to their instruction.

Those pupils who intend passing an examination are now crammed in these subjects by the Masters of the Schools, or by the Tutors of the Colleges. The pupils only learn in quite a mechanical way by such a system, and independent logical thinking is not possible. Moreover, the Teachers occupy themselves almost exclusively with these pupils, and the other boys are neglected.

It is, of course, a great advantage to the Head Master of a Private School, if he can put upon the Prospectus of his School the names of pupils, prepared by him, who have passed certain examinations and gained„Scholarships“ and„Honours“. On the Prospectus of 1876 of our School one could read:„A private pupil, prepared by—, gained a Medical Scholarship at Durham University, value* 100.— Forty-Nine pupils have recently passed Examinations held by the Cambridge or Durham University, or by the Incorporated Law Society. Thirty of these gained Honours and four obtained the title of Literate, etc.“ On the Prospectus of 1877, there appeared the following:„Mr. R.'s University course has been an unusually success- ful one, having carried off no fewer than Ten Medals, Three Prizes, a Scholarship, and First Class Honour Certificates in every class in which he competed. He was entirely educated

* See Prospectus of Classes for the Examinations of the University of London. June, 1890.

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