Courses of study in library science : $b being the assistants' guide to librarianshipWilliams, Reginald Gordon
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Courses of study in library science : $b being the assistants' guide to librarianship
Williams, Reginald Gordon
Library science -- Outlines, syllabi, etc.
_4._ ESSAY AND CRITICISM.--(_a_) _Literary Criticism_: M. Arnold.
J. Brown. L. Stephen. W. E. Henley. J. A. Symonds. A. Lang. E. V.
Lucas. G. K. Chesterton. G. B. Shaw. Garnett. Gosse. “Q.” Archer.
Clutton-Brock. Nevinson. Harrison. (_b_) _Art Criticism_: Ruskin.
Pater. Wilde. Wedmore (_c_) _Literary Essay_: Stevenson. Jefferies.
Pater. Carpenter. Bain. Paget. A. C. Benson. Squire. (_d_) _Literary
Biography_: Forster. Masson. Smiles. Oliphant. L. Stephen. Pattison.
Morley. (_e_) _Letters and diaries_: Swinburne. Stevenson. Brooke.
Cory. “Barbellion.”
_5._ STUDY AND RESEARCH.--(_a_) _Religion and Philosophy_: (_i_) Lewes.
Eliot. H. Martineau. Congreve and the positivists. (_ii_) Spencer.
Darwin, Huxley, and the evolutionists (_iii_) Jowett, T. H. Green,
Caird and the Neo-Hegelians. (_iv_) Newman, Church, Martineau, and the
theologians. (_b_) _The Scientists_: Darwin. Wallace. Huxley. (_c_)
_Travel_: A. B. Edwardes. Stanley. Stevenson. Burnaby. Isabella Bird.
M. Kingsley. (_d_) _The Historians_: (_i_) Buckle. Maine. Bagehot.
Pearson. Seeley. Acton. Lecky. Maitland. and the philosophical school.
(_ii_) Froude. Freeman. Stubbs. J. R. Green. Creighton. Gardiner,
and the Oxford school. (_iii_) Kinglake. Henderson, and the military
historians.
_6._ CHILDREN’S WRITERS.--(_a_) _English_: Stephenson. Ewing. Carroll.
Lear. Parry. Farrow. Nesbit. Lucas. Kipling. Barrie. Henty. Fenn, etc.
(_b_) _American_: Stowe. Hawthorne. Alcott. “Mark Twain.” Harris.
Field. Ryley. Coffin. Stockton. Pyle. Ellis. Burnett.
_7._ AMERICAN LITERATURE.--(_a_) _Poetry_: T. B. Aldrich. J. Miller.
R. W. Gilder. J. W. Ryley. E. C. Stedman. R. H. Stoddard. R. Hovey.
(_b_) _The Drama_: Howells. Daly. Fitch. Howard. The Mackayes. (_c_)
_The Novel_: H. James. W. D. Howells. G. W. Cable. J. L. Allen.
E. P. Roe. F. M. Crawford. L. Wallace. J. London. F. Norris. E.
Wharton. (_d_) _The Essayists_: C. E. Norton. T. W. Higginson. M. W.
Conway. E. C. Stedman. H. James. G. W. Curtis. H. W. Mabie. E. More.
(_e_) _The Humorous Sketch and Story_: “Mark Twain.” “Bret Harte.”
Ambrose Bierce. “Max Adeler.” “Bill Nye.” H. Ade. F. P. Dunne. C. G.
Leland. “O. Henry.” (_f_) _Religion and Philosophy_: Gladden. Brooks.
Fiske. Pierce. Schaff. MacCosh. Royce. W. James. Dewey. Baldwin. G.
Santanyana. (_g_) _Historians_: Lea. Bancroft. Mahan.
TEST PAPER (_1832-1920_)
_1._ Who were the Pre-Raphaelites? What was their literary attitude?
_2._ Outline the history of the drama from Robertson to Barker.
_3._ In what respects do Hardy and Meredith agree and differ as poets
and as novelists?
_4._ Compare Whitman with Swinburne, or Tennyson with Browning.
_5._ Write a brief essay on the cult of the short story from Irving to
O. Henry.
_6._ Show the development of realism either in poetry or prose fiction
from _1870_.
_7._ Name three American and three English humorists. Compare the work
of any two of them.
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