Two Elizabethan novels: Lodge's _Rosalynde_ (the original of Shakespeare's _As You Like It_) and Greene's _Pandosto_ (the original of _The Winter's Tale_) are published in _The Shakespeare Classics_, edited by Gollancz (Duffield & Company, New York, $1 each). _Pandosto_ may be found at the end of the Cassell _National Library_ edition of _The Winter's Tale_ (15 cents). Selections from Lodge's _Rosalynde_ are given in Craik, I., 544-549. These should be compared with the parallel parts of _As You Like It_. Selections from Nashe's _The Unfortunate Traveller_ are given in Craik, I., 573-576, and selections from Sidney's _Arcadia_ in the same volume, pp. 409-419. Deloney's _The Gentle Craft_ and _Jack of Newberry_ are given in his _Works_, edited by Mann (Clarendon Press). For the preliminary sketching of characters that might serve as types in fiction, read _The Spectator_, No. 2, by Steele. Defoe's _Robinson Crusoe_ will be read entire by almost every one. In Craik, IV., read the following selections from these four great novelists of the middle of the eighteenth century; from Richardson, pp. 59-66; from Fielding, pp. 118-125; from Sterne, pp. 213-219; and from Smollett, pp. 261-264 and 269-272. Manly, II., has brief selections. Goldsmith's _Vicar of Wakefield_ should be read entire by the student (_Eclectic English Classics_, or _Gateway Series_, American Book Company). Selections may be found in Craik, IV., 365-370. Sketch the general lines of development in fiction, from the early romance to Smollett. What type of fiction did _Don Quixote_ ridicule? Compare Greene's _Pandosto_ with Shakespeare's _Winter's Tale_, and Lodge's _Rosalynde_ with _As You Like It_. In what relation do Steele, Addison, and Defoe stand to the novel? Why is the modern novel said to begin with Richardson? Philosophy.--Two selections from Berkeley in Craik, IV., 34-39, give some of that philosopher's subtle metaphysics. The same volume, pp. 189-195, gives a selection from Hume's _Treatise of Human Nature_. Try stating in your own words the substance of these selections. Gibbon.--Read Aurelian's campaign against Zenobia, which constitutes the last third of Chap. XI. of the first volume of _The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_. Other selections may be found in Craik, IV., 460-472; _Century_, 453-462. What is the special merit of Gibbon's work? What period does he cover? Compare his style, either in description or in narration, with Bunyan's. Burke.--Let the student who has not the time to read all the speech on _Conciliation with America (Eclectic English Classics_, or _Gateway Series_, American Book Company, 20 cents) read the selection in Craik, IV., 379-385, and also the selection referring to the decline of chivalry, from _Reflections on the Revolution in France_ (Craik, IV., 402). Point out in Burke's writings the four characteristics mentioned on p. 331. Compare his style with Bacon's, Swift's, Addison's, and Gibbon's.