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Section III. — Poetry — 



Add The Cid — Southey's volume with poems. This 



is essential. 

 Omit if necessary Sakuntala. 

 Omit Hesiod as not great poetry. 

 Aristophanes ? Add Frogs (even if Clouds be omitted). 

 Horace. Sir T. Martin's two volumes, translations 



and Essays an admirable picture of the later 



Roman world. 

 Dryden's Poems. Substitute Shelley. 

 Scott — • Lyrics '\ 

 liurns do. .Qnly in a collection in one volume. 



Tennyson do. j 



Byron. Add Manfred and (?) Cain. 



Shakespeare. Select 15, but omit Historical Plays, 



except Henry IV. and Julius Caesar. 

 Add Calderon — at least Mayor of Zalamea, Life is a 



Dream. Both by FitzGerald. 

 • Corneille. CidPolyeacte u^ ^^^ -^ ^^^^^^ 

 ? Racme. Athalie Phedre j " 



Moli^re. Select 4 or 5 only. 

 Omit Schiller and Sheridan. 

 Carlyle. All Miscellaneous Essays, Past and Present, 



Heroes, Sartor. 

 Omit Smiles. 

 History ?— 



Insert Voltaire. Siicle de Louis XIV. 

 ? The Middle Ages — where are they ? ? Milman. 

 Omit Emerson. 



Insert Voltaire. Essai sur les mceurs. 

 Fiction — 



? Voltaire. Add Candide. The great desideratum is 



Tom Jones. 

 Thackeray. Esmond not Pendennis. 

 Kingsley. Omit. 

 C. Bronte. Insert Jane Eyre. 

 G. Eliot. Add Silas Marner. 

 Scott. The great desideratum is a selected List. 



Choose not more than 14. Omitting all later 



than 1825. 

 Add Emma and (?) Coningsby. 



F. H. 



Nov. 1895. 



