Though but recently established, the opportunities for special study and for advanced instruction are well organized, and offer the choice of a wide range of subjects. The curriculum provides both for the philological and for the literary study of the English Language. Candidates are examined in (1) portions of certain prescribed English authors, to be studied with reference to the forms of the language; as examples of literature; and in their relation to the history and thought of the period to which they belong; (2) in the history of the English Language and Literature, demanding a thorough study of philology as well as of the history of literary criticism. In addition, the candidate who aims at a first or second class in the Final Examination must offer one of a list of nine or ten special subjects in philology and English literature. The examination requirements demand very wide reading, as well as a thorough study of some special period of English literature, or of some special subject in philology. [Sidenote: Modern Languages.] Complete courses of instruction are given in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, and the Scandinavian languages; instructions will also be provided for in other European languages, if called for. All the Lecturers and Professors are prepared to give special instruction. A recognized authority is appointed from time to time to deliver a public lecture on some subject of modern language or comparative literature. Candidates reading for this ‘School’ are not required to offer more than one language. They will be examined in ‘the language as spoken and written at the present day’, in certain prescribed texts, in the history, philology, and the literature of the language offered. ‘This will include the history of criticism and style in prose and verse, and the history, especially the social history, of the corresponding country or countries of Europe.’ In addition the candidate has the choice of certain optional subjects as prescribed in the Examination Statutes. [Sidenote: Final Pass Schools.] For the sake of completeness, brief reference may be made to the Final Examinations in the Pass Schools. The subjects of the examination are divided into a number of groups, each containing a certain number of subjects, e. g. one group contains Classical subjects, another Modern subjects, another Mathematics, &c. Candidates must satisfy the examiners in three subjects; as a rule not more than two subjects may be taken from any one Group. The examination in these subjects may be taken separately, i. e. it is not necessary to take all of them in the same Term, and no limitations (except by his College) are placed on the number of the Pass-man’s efforts to pass his ‘Groups’. In the course of time the University examiners are said to be able to recognize familiar faces in the Pass Schools with comparative ease—some cynics say, with ill-concealed pleasure. [Sidenote: Graduate study.]