Calendar: 1891-1892 Page 380

374 DEPARTMENT FOR LADIES Lent Term Bacon and other Essayists -The rise of the Essay-What corresponds to it in Classical literature-Montaigne-The description and the popularity of Bacon's Essays-The light they throw on his conduct and life-What were called cha- meters in the seventeenth century-Sir Thomas Overbury- Samuel Butler-Brown's "Religio Medici יי and 'Urn-burial" -Defoe and his "Review"-Steele and Addison and the Essay of Queen Anne's time-Later Essayists &c Boohs recommended The Clarendon Press edition of Bacon's Essays and also that in uT11e Golden Treasury Series"-Brown's Religio Medici" in the Bayard Series- "Character-writing in the Seventeenth Century" in the Carisbrouk Series-Macaulay's Essay on Addison-Eorster's on Steele Easter Term Siiakes1 ear1 's Comedies -Rise of Comedy in the Six- teenth Century-Η0λν far influenced by the Latin Classics- Shakespeare's predecessors-His earliest work-Bottom in The Midsummer Night's Dream his first comic character of note-4 The Merchant of Venice"-The last four or five years of the sixteenth century-Shakespeare's last works- The Winter's Tale "-" The Tempest &c Boohs recommended The Clarendon Press editions of the various plays discussed-Dowden's Shakspeare Critical Study of his Mind and Art"-Elze's William Shakespeare literary biography '' translated by Dora Schniitz-Hazlitt's Characters of Shakespeare's Plays