(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.