(1) Two books, either both Greek, or one Greek and one Latin; one being a Greek philosophical work, and the other a Greek or Latin historian. _e.g._ Aristotle’s Ethics, Books i.-iv., together with chapters 6-10 of Book x. Aristotle’s Politics, Books i., iii., vii. Plato--Republic, Books i.-iv. Herodotus--Books vii.-ix. Livy, Books xxi.-xxiv. Tacitus--Annals, Books i.-iv. With questions on the subject-matter of the books offered. (2) The outlines of Greek and Roman History, with a special period of one or the other, and English Composition. _e.g._ Greek--from the Legislation of Solon to the death of Alexander the Great. Roman--from the establishment of the Republic to the death of Domitian. Special periods. Greek--the Persian war; the Peloponnesian war. Roman--the second Punic war; the reign of Tiberius. GROUP B. (1) Either English History and a period or subject of English Literature, or a period of modern European History, with Political and Descriptive Geography, with English Composition in each case. _e.g._ English History to 1815, with one of the following:-- (_a_) Piers Ploughman--the Prologue, Passus i.-vii.; Chaucer--the Prologue, the Knightes Tale, the Nonne Prestes Tale. (_b_) Shakespeare--The Tempest, King Lear, Richard II., Hamlet. (_c_) Dryden--Selections; Pope--Essay on Man, Epistles and Satires. (2) French or German, including Composition and a period of Literature. _e.g._ Molière, Le Tartuffe; Corneille, Les Horaces, _or_ Racine, Athalie; Voltaire, Siècle de Louis XIV., Chapters i.-xxiv., with a general acquaintance with the History and Literature of the Age of Louis XIV.; unseen passages of French: _or_, Schiller, the Maid of Orleans; Goethe, Hermann and Dorothea, _or_ Lessing, Nathan der Weise; Goethe, Wahrheit und Dichtung, Books i.-iv., with a general acquaintance with the History of the Classical period of German Literature (from Klopstock to Goethe); unseen passages of German. (3) The Elements of Political Economy, to be read in Fawcett’s Manual, and Adam Smith’s “Wealth of Nations,” Books i. and ii. (4) Either Stephen’s “Blackstone,” Book ii., _or_ Justinian’s “Institutes,” omitting from Book ii., tit. 11, to Book iii., tit. 12. GROUP C. (1) The Elements of Geometry, including Geometrical Trigonometry. (2) The Elements of Mechanics, solid and fluid, treated mathematically. (3) The Elements of Chemistry, with a practical examination. (4) The Elements of Physics, not necessarily treated mathematically.