its proper footing, and, by placing it on its proper footing, it would not only demonstrate its relation to other studies, but it would enable it to effect fully what it is competent to effect. Thirdly, it might, and probably would, do something to relieve Oxford of the opprobrium of being behind the rest of the learned world in this branch of science. The School would probably not attract many students, for Philology, unlike Literature, can never appeal to more than a small minority. If, therefore, the choice lay between the institution of a School of Philology and that of a School of Literature, there can be no doubt which should have precedence. But no such choice is offered. If the philologists were not strong enough to refuse to compromise, they are strong enough to crush any attempt to forestall them. Let us now turn to the constitution of the School which has been the result of this arrangement, and which will authorize the University to confer, not, be it remembered, an ordinary, but an honour, degree in English Language and Literature. The following are the Regulations. The subjects for examination are four. 1. Portions of English authors. 2. The History of the English Language. 3. The History of English Literature. 4. In the case of those candidates who aim at a place in the first or second class, a Special Subject of language or literature. The portions of the authors specified are these. _Beowulf_, the texts printed in Sweet’s _Anglo-Saxon Reader_, _King Horn_, _Havelok_; Laurence Minot, _Sir Gawain and the Green Knight_. Of Chaucer’s _Canterbury Tales_, the _Prologue_, _The Knight’s Tale_, _The Man of Law’s_, _The Prioress’s_, _Sir Thopas_, _The Monk’s_, _The Nun Priest’s_, _The Pardoner’s_, _The Clerk’s_, _The Squire’s_, _The Second Nun’s_, _The Canon Yeoman’s_. Next come the _Prologue_ and the first seven _passus_ (text B) of _Piers Ploughman_. Then come select plays of Shakespeare, chosen apparently at haphazard, _Love’s Labour’s Lost_, _Romeo and Juliet_, _Richard the Second_, _Twelfth Night_, _Julius Cæsar_, _Winter’s Tale_, _King Lear_. Then we have the following extraordinary farrago:-- Bacon’s _Essays_. Milton, with a special study of _Paradise Lost_ and the _Areopagitica_. Dryden’s _Essay on Epic_ (sic). Pope’s _Satires and Epistles_. Johnson’s _Lives of the Poets_--the Lives of Eighteenth-Century Poets. Goldsmith’s _Citizen of the World_. Burke’s _Thoughts on the Present Discontents_. Lyrical Ballads (Wordsworth and Coleridge), Shelley’s _Adonais_.[3] The second part of the examination will be on the History of the English Language. “Candidates will be examined in Gothic (the Gospel of St. Mark), and in translation from Old English and Middle English authors not specially offered.”