Do you think a man unfit "for studies of a higher nature" and "uncapable of any liberal art or profession," likely to succeed "in the occupations of trade and commerce"? (See Paper VIII.) Discuss the wisdom of a liberal education for boys who expect to be business men. Do you suppose the observance of the Sabbath was more necessary, as Addison seems to imply, for country people than for people in London? (Paper XI.) Which do you think Addison preferred, the city or the country? Give evidence. Make a list of the eighteenth-century customs and manners referred to in these papers. Write an account of the Spectator and Sir Roger at Button's or Will's. Recast or modernize Paper XIV on _Labour and Exercise_ in such a way as to adapt its argument to the support of school and college athletics. What types of character or classes of men are represented by persons in these papers? Which, if any, do not seem like real persons? Do they develop, or do they remain throughout as they are first represented? By what means does the author make us acquainted with them,--by what he says of them, by what they say themselves, or by what others say of them? Do the whimsicalities of Sir Roger make him ridiculous or lessen our respect for him? What qualities would such a man find to admire in the "perverse widow"? Write a paper entitled "Sir Roger at the Play" modeled upon Addison's paper, but suppose Sir Roger to have seen, instead of _The Distressed Mother_, Shakespeare's _Macbeth_. Write a reply from Sir Roger to Will Wimble on receipt of the jack. Write a letter from the Chaplain to the Spectator announcing the death of Sir Roger and speaking as he naturally would of his patron. Write an account of the trouble between Will Wimble and Tom Touchy referred to in Paper XXVII. Compare the papers written by Addison with those written by Steele to determine which author is more successful in introducing characters; which in portraying the details that make these characters live; which uses more care in the choice of words and the form of sentences; which has a more refined and courteous manner; and which shows the more feeling. Give evidence. FORM.--Make a topical outline of several papers, for example, XIX, XXI, XXVI, to show whether or not they have unity. Do the paragraphs have unity? a clear order of development? Examine the sentences to see whether they are, in the main, loose or periodic. Compare this series of papers with some novel, preferably _The Vicar of Wakefield_, in respect to clearness of setting, delineation of character, structure of plot, definiteness of purpose, and clearness and grace of style. What is lacking to make the series a novel?