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358 department for ladies Text boohs -Merivale's Short History of Rome published by Longmans Translations of Virgil's iEneid and Dante's Divina Commedia During the Lent Term the subject of the Lectures will be the Roman Antiquities Text book Primer of Roman An- tiquities by Prof Wilkins published by Macmillan during the Easter Term the subject will be Grceco-Boman Art The last course of Lectures will be accompanied by visits to the Greek and Oriental Galleries in the British Museum ENGLISH LITERATURE Professor Hales Friday 3-4 Michaelmas Term -Medieval Literature From the decay of Anglo-Saxon Literature to the rise of Chaucer-From about 1100 to about 1350-Literary In- fluence of the Norman Conquest-The Saxon Chronicle-The Ormulum-Layamon's Brut-Lives of Saints-Some Lyrical Poems-The Owl and Nightingale-Romances of Chivalry- Robert of Brunne-Lawrence Minot &c Books recommended Morris' and Morris and Skeat's Specimens of Early English '2 vols Clarendon Press Warton's History of English Poetry י-Ten Brink's Early English Literature Bell Sons Lent Term Elizabethan Literature Some general characteristics of the Elizabethan age-Its Various Activity-Its Ardent Patriotism-Its Maritime Enter- prise-Its Intellectual keenness-Other Elizabethans besides Shakespeare and Bacon-Lily and his Euphues-Robert Greene-Peele-Marlowe-Sackville-Spenser &c