Lyrics.--For specimens of love sonnets, read Nos. 18, 33, 73, 104, 111, and 116 of Shakespeare's _Sonnets_. Compare them with any of Sidney's Spenser's sonnets. Other love lyrics which should be read are Spenser's _Prothalamion_, Lodge's _Love in My Bosom Like a Bee_ and Ben Jonson's _To Celia_. Among pastoral lyrics, read from Spenser's _Shepherd's Calendar_ for August, 1579, Perigo and Willie's duet, beginning:-- "It fell upon a holy eve," and Marlowe's _The Passionate Shepherd to His Love_. The best pastoral lyrics from the modern point of view are Shakespeare's two songs: "Under the Greenwood Tree" (_As you like it_) and "When Icicles Hang by the Wall" (_Love's Labor's Lost_). The best miscellaneous lyrics are the songs in Shakespeare's _Cymbeline_, _The Tempest_, and _As You Like It_. Drayton's _Ballad of Agincourt_ and _Sonnet 61_ are his best lyrical verse. Read Ben Jonson's _An Epitaph on Salathiel Pavy_ and, from his Pindaric Ode, the stanza beginning:-- "It is not growing like a tree." From John Donne, read either _The Funeral_, _The Canonization_, or _The Dream_. Good selections from all varieties of Elizabethan lyrics may be found in Bronson, II., Ward. I., _Oxford, Century_, Manly, I. Nearly all the lyrics referred to in this list, including the best songs from the dramatists, are given in Schelling's _Elizabethan Lyrics_ (327 pp., 75 cents). This work, together with Erskine's _The Elizabethan Lyric_ and Reed's _English Lyrical Poetry from its Origins to the Present Time_, will serve for a more exhaustive study of this fascinating subject. From your reading, select from each class the lyric that pleases you most, and give reasons for your choice. Which lyric seems the most spontaneous? the most artistic? the most inspired? the most modern? the most quaint? the most and the least instinct with feeling? Edmund Spenser.--The _Faerie Queene_, Book I., Canto I., should be read. Maynard's _English Classic Series_, No. 27 (12 cents) contains the first two cantos and the _Prothalamion_. Kitchin's edition of Book I. (Clarendon Press. 60 cents) is an excellent volume. The Globe edition furnishes a good complete text of Spenser's work. Ample selections are given in Bronson, II., Ward, I., and briefer ones in Manly, I., and _Century_. THE DRAMA