4. No Candidate shall be admitted to examination in the Final Honour School of English Language and Literature, unless he has either obtained Honours in some Final Honour School or has passed the First Public Examination [_i. e._ Moderation]. 5. The Examination shall be under the supervision of a Board of Studies. 6. It shall be the duty of the Board of Studies in framing regulations, and also of the Examiners in the conduct of the Examination, to see that as far as possible equal weight is given to language and literature: provided always that Candidates who offer Special Subjects shall be at liberty to choose subjects connected either with language or with literature or with both. 7. The Board of Studies shall by notice from time to time make regulations respecting the Examination; and shall have power-- (1) To prescribe authors or portions of authors. (2) To specify one or more related languages or dialects to be offered either as a necessary or as an optional part of the Examination. (3) To name periods of the history of English literature, and to fix their limits. (4) To issue lists of Special Subjects in connexion either with language or with literature or with both, prescribing books or authorities where they think it desirable. (5) To prescribe or recommend authors or portions of authors in languages other than English, to be studied in connexion with Special Subjects to which they are intimately related. (6) To determine whether Candidates who aim at a place in the First or Second Class shall be required to offer more than one Special Subject. (_ii_) _Regulations of the Board of Studies for the Examinations in 1901 and 1902._ The subjects of examination in this School are-- I. Portions of English Authors. II. The History of the English Language. III. The History of English Literature. IV. (In the case of those Candidates who aim at a place in the First or Second Class) a Special Subject of Language or Literature. I. ENGLISH AUTHORS. Candidates will be examined in the following texts:-- _Beowulf._ The texts printed in Sweet's _Anglo-Saxon Reader_. _King Horn._ _Havelok._ Laurence Minot. _Sir Gawain and the Green Knight._ Chaucer's _Canterbury Tales_, the _Prologue_ and the following Tales:-- _The Knight's_, _The Man of Law's_, _The Prioress's_, _Sir Thopas_, _The Monk's_, _The Nun's Priest's_, _The Pardoner's_, _The Clerk's_, _The Squire's_, _The Second Nun's_, _The Canon's Yeoman's_ _Piers Plowman_, the _Prologue_ and first seven _passus_ (text B). Shakespeare, with a special study of the following Plays: _Midsummer Night's Dream_, _King John,_ _Much Ado about Nothing_, _Macbeth_, _Cymbeline_. Milton, with a special study of _Paradise Lost_.