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Incandescent Electric Lighting ; with Experimental Illustrations ; 



by Mr. C. H. Stearn. 

 On the Search for Happiness ; by Mr. Charles Dyall. 

 Utopia; by Mr. E. R. Russell. 



LECTURES ON ENGLISH LITERATURE. 



In consequence of the Cambridge University Local Lectures Syndicate 

 being unable to supply a Lecturer to continue the Course on English 

 Prose Literature, commenced and successfully carried on during the 

 previous year by the Rev. A. Caldecott, the Committee appointed Mr. 

 T. Hall Caine to deliver a Course of Twelve Lectures " On English 

 Prose Literature from Addison to Carlyle (1720-1880)." 



At these lectures there were 3,177 attendances, giving an average per 

 lecture of 264. 



The attendants at these lectures were invited to send in essays on the 

 subjects treated in order that certificates might be given in the order of 

 merit. 



The Rev. Professor Graham, of London, kindly gave his assistance to 

 Mr. Caine in this adjudication. The list of the essayists and the report 

 of Dr. Graham are as follows : — 



Report from the Rev. Professor Graham, D.D., Adjudicator : — 



London, SO, Endsleigh Street, Tavistock Square, 

 February 15th, 1882. 



Dear Sir, — Mr. T. H. Caine has sent me the MSS. of the Essayists 

 in his English Literature Class that I may give some judgment upon 

 their relative merits. I have read them over — all of them with interest, 

 some of them with admiration — both of the Essayists and of the Lecturer 

 who had impressed the substance and spirit of bis Lectures so thoroughly 

 on the minds of his students. 



I might have slightly changed one or two names in the table Mr. 

 Caine sent me, and which I transmit to you ; but the real order of merit 

 would not have been affected by any change I could make. I would only 

 say further that the boy Palethorpe, 12 years old, writes a Paper so 

 judicious and at the same time so naive that he almost, or indeed 

 altogether deserves, to be put into a class of which he is the only 



