This is to be followed by the History of English Literature, to which portion of the Regulations the following odd clause is appended: “the examination will include the History of Criticism and of style in prose and verse.” Last come the special subjects designed for “those who aim at a place in the First or Second Class.” Six of these consist of certain prescribed periods of English Literature. The other subjects are as follows:-- (1) Old English Language and Literature down to 1150 A.D. (2) Middle English Language and Literature, 1150-1400 A.D. (3) Old French Philology with special reference to Anglo-Norman French, together with a special study of the following texts:--_Computus of Phillippe de Thaun_, _Voyage of St. Brandan_, _The Song of Dermot and the Earl_, _Les Contes moralisés de Nicole Bozon_. (4) Scandinavian Philology, with special reference to Icelandic, together with a special study of the following texts:--_Gylfaginning_, _Laxdæla Saga_, _Gunnlaugssaga Ormstungu_. (5) French Literature down to 1400 A.D. in its bearing on English Literature. (6) Italian Literature as influencing English down to the death of Milton. (7) German Literature from 1500 A.D. to the death of Goethe in its bearing on English Literature. (8) History of Scottish Poetry. Such is the scheme which will, in conjunction with the similar scheme at Cambridge, supply England and the colonies with their literary professors. Let us examine it in detail. The first thing which strikes us is the contrast between the competence and judgment displayed in the organization of the philological part of the course and the confusion, inadequacy, and flimsiness so conspicuous in the literary part. Nothing could be more satisfactory than the provisions made for the study of Language. They are obviously the work of legislators who knew what they were about, and who, but for the thwarting requirements of the provisions for Literature, would have proceeded to a superstructure worthy of the foundation. A student who, in addition to having mastered the prescribed works in Gothic, Anglo-Saxon, and Middle English, is competent to translate and comment on unprepared passages from those dialects, has certainly laid the foundation of sound scholarship in an important department of Philology. In the fact that what properly belongs to his study has been relegated to the subjects out of which he has only the option of choosing one, we have a lamentable illustration of the effects of the compromise forced on the philologists. If, for the literary portion of the curriculum, a candidate could substitute the first four of the special subjects, he would have completed a thoroughly satisfactory course of Philology, so far at least as relates to the Teutonic and Romance languages.