COLLEGE ENTRANCE 

 REQUIREMENTS 



College Entrance Requirements for Careful Study for the Years 1911-1915 inclusive. 

 In one volume. Cloth, crown 8vo. $i.oo,net. 



The text and notes throughout correspond exactly with the separate issues of these 

 titles in the Riverside Literature Series. 



Contents : Burke's Conciliation with the Colonies ; Carlyle's Essay on Burns ; Macau- 

 lay's Life of Johnson ; Milton's Minor Poems ; Shakespeare's Macbeth ; Tenny- 

 son's Gareth and Lynette, and Other Idylls; Washington's Farewell Address; 

 Webster's First Bunker Hill Oration. 



COLLEGE ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS 



IN THE RIVERSIDE LITERATURE SERIES 

 The Numbers in parentheses refer to the Riverside Literature Series. 



FOR READING, 1911 



I (two to be selected). Shakespeare's As You Like It (<, ^ ; Henry V (163) ; Julius 



Cassar (67); Merchant of Venice (55); Twelfth Night (149). 



II (one to be selected). Addison's Sir Roger de Coverley Papers (60, 61) ; Bacon's 

 Essays (177); Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Part I (109); Franklin's Autobi- 

 ography (19, 20). 



III (one to be selected) Chaucer's Prologue (135); Goldsmith's Deserted Village 

 (68) ; tPalgrave's Golden Treasury (First Series), Books II and III ; Port's Rape 

 of the Lock (147); Spenser's Faerie Queene Selections (160). 



IV (two to be selected) FBlackmore's Lorna Doone ; Dickens's Tale of Two Cities 

 (161); Eliot's Silas Marner (83); Mrs. Gaskell's Cranford (192); Goldsmith's 

 Vicar of Wakefield (78) , Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables (91) ; Scott's 

 Ivanhoe (86) ; Scott's Quentin Durward (165) ; Thackeray's Henry Esmond (140). 



V (two to be selected). Carlyle's Heroes and Hero- Worship (166) ; De Quincey's 

 Joan of Arc, and the English Mail-Coach (164); Emerson's Essays (selected) (171, 

 172); Irving's Sketch Book, Selected Essays (51, 52); Lamb's Essays of Elia 

 selected (170); Ruskin's Sesame and Lilies (142). 



VI (two to be selected) Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum (132) ; Browning's Selected 

 Poems (115); Byron's Mazeppa, and Prisoner of Chillon (189); Coleridge's Rime 

 of the Ancient Mariner (So) ; Longfellow's Courtship of Miles Standish (2) ; Low- 

 ell's Vision of Sir Launfal(3o); Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome (45); tPal- 

 grave's Golden Treasury (First Series), Book IV; Poe's Poems (119); Scott's 

 Lady of the Lake (53) ; Tennyson's Gareth and Lynette, Lancelot and Elaine, and 

 The Passing of Arthur (156). 



FOR READING, igia 



The same literature as for 1909-1911 with the following exceptions : 

 In Group V, Carlyle's "The Hero as Poet," "The Hero as Man of Letters," and 

 "The Hero as King" (166) are substituted for " Heroes and Hero- Worship," com- 

 plete. In Group VI, Tennyson's Princess (i 1 1) is substituted for Gareth and Lynette, 

 etc. (156). 



FOR READING, 1913-1915 



With a view to large freedom of choice, the books provided for reading are arranged in 

 the following groups, from which at least ten units are to be selected, two from each 

 group. Each unit is set off by semicolons 



I The Old Testament ; the Odyssey (190), with the omission, if desired, of Book,' 

 814 a 



