Most of the courses in the School of Oriental Languages are for the practical acquisition of the languages offered. There are also some advanced lectures, and all members of the teaching staff are prepared to give instruction and advice to students taking up any special line of Oriental studies. There is a very complete collection of works on Egyptology in the Bodleian Library and in the libraries of the Ashmolean Museum, of Queen’s College, and of the Indian Institute. ‘The Indian Institute Library contains about 23,000 volumes intended to represent very fully the languages, the literature, the religions, the institutions, the geography, the history, the ethnology, the archaeology, and the administration of ancient, mediaeval, and modern India.’ Very considerable opportunities and facilities are here afforded for the study of Sanskrit, Tamil and Telugu, Persian, Arabic, Turkish, Chinese, and Burmese. The library contains a collection of 162 Sanskrit and Prākṛit MSS., and 64 Persian MSS., as well as a large number of maps of official publications of the Indian Provincial Government. All the leading Oriental Journals in English, French, and German are kept here. The Museum of the Indian Institute is a great aid to the historical study of Indian subjects. [Sidenote: English Literature.] Though but very recently established, the work in the Schools of English Language and Literature and of Modern Languages calls for special consideration. The facilities for research in the Bodleian, and especially in the Taylorian Library, are very considerable. ‘The Taylorian Library contains about 40,000 volumes, representing the languages of Modern Europe, English (Anglo-Saxon, Early English), French, German, Dutch, Scandinavian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Modern Greek, Polish, Bohemian (Czech), Russian, Serbo-Croatian, and Bulgarian. The chief subjects are the philology and literature (mainly poetry and drama) of these languages, and historical memoirs and biographies written in them. The Library is specially strong in the literature of Dante, Molière, Goethe and Schiller, Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Calderon, Camoëns, and Old Norse Sagas. The Finch Collection forms a special library of works on the Fine Arts, written in French, German, Italian, and other European languages. A special _Seminar-Library_ contains the leading literary and philological periodicals on modern European Languages, the books prescribed for the Honour School of Modern Languages, and a selection of dictionaries, grammars, and works of reference connected with the study of modern languages.’ [Sidenote: Natural Science.]