M.A. EXAMINATION.

ENGLISH LIterature,

There will be eight papers set, viz., six papers on the prescribed course, one containing unseen passages, and one an essay on a subject connected with the

course.

N.B-Candidates must take up Groups I, II, III, VI, and either IVa and Va or IVb and Vb.

For the Previous Examination candidates are required to select any four of the papers of the course; and in the Final Examination they will be examined in the four remaining papers.

I. GENERAL SECTION: Prose and Poetry.

CHAUCER: Prologue.

SPENSER: Faerie Queen, Book I.

POPE: Essay on Man.

SIR THOMAS BROWNE: Religio Medici.

ADDISON: Spectator Papers (Selection, Clarendon
Press).

11.-GENERAL SECTION: Shakespeare and Milton. SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet; Anthony and Cleopatra; As You Like It.

MILTON Samson Agonistes; Comus; Sonnets.

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III. SPECIAL SECTION: Tennyson.

The Princess; In Memoriam; Idylls of the King.
Selection in Vol. IV of WARD's English Poets.
Memoir of Alfred, Lord TENNYSON, by his son.
STOPFORD BROOKE: Tennyson.

BRADLEY: In Memoriam.

IVa.-SPECIAL SECTION: Nineteenth Century Prose.
LAMB: Essays of Elia (not including the Last Essays

Or IVb.-Historical Grammar of the English Language.
MORRIS Historical Outlines of English Accidence.
N. B. Candidates offering IVb must also offer Vb.
Va.-SPECIAL SECTION: Nineteenth Century Poetry.
WARD: English Poets, Vol. IV. (Wordsworth,
Coleridge, Southey, Scott, Campbell, Byron, T.
Moore, Shelley, Keats, Landor, Hood, Elizabeth
Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Matthew
Arnold).

Or Vb.-Anglo-Saxon.

Cook First book in Old English.

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N.B.-Candidates offering Vo must also offer IVb. VI.-history.

GREEN: History of the English People (from 1461
A.D. onwards).

OMAN: England in the 19th Century.

VII.-Unseen Passages.

In the case of European graduates a paper in 'Latin English'* will be set in place of the paper on Unseen Passages

VIII-Essay on a subject connected with the course. N. B. Candidates must show a competent knowledge. of the History of English Literature in all periods. covered above, both in the General and in the Special Sections.

The following works are recommended:--

TAINE: History of English Literature (Introduction only).

SAINTSBURY: History of English Literature.

Candidates whose mother-tongue is English are required to show a fair knowledge of the Latin Grammar and Vocabulary, enabling them to analyse grammatically and etymologically English words of Latin origin, to explain Latin quotations of not too difficult a nature, and to trace "Latinisms that may occur in the idiom and syntax of English writers.

SANSKRIT.

Previous Examination.

Three papers will be set on the following books:-
Chhandogya Upanishad.

Parashara Grihyasutra.
Manusmriti.

Mrichchhakatika.

Kiratarjuniya-Cantos I to IX.
Karpuramanjari (Harvard Oriental Series).
Siddhantakaumudi-Kāraka and Samasa.
Tarkabhasa-Keshava Mishra.

Smith Early History of India.
Macdonell's History of Sanskrit Literature.

Final Examination.

Candidates will be required to offer only one of the following groups :

Two papers will be set on the books of each group. A paper on Composition will be obligatory on all candidates.

Group A-Language and Literature.
Kavyaprakasha-Mammata.
Natyashastra-Bharata.

Shishupalabadha-Cantos I-IX.
Naishadhacharita-Cantos I-IX.

Kadambari.

Dines Andersen's Pali Reader.

Group B.-Mimansā; Dharmashāstra.

Tantravartika-Smriti-pada.

Adhikaran akaumudi-Devanatha Thakkura.
Viramitrodaya-Paribhashāprakasha.
Mitakshara-Vyavaharakanda.

History of Dharmashastra-Jolly.
Maine's Ancient Law

Group C.-Philosophy.

Nayamanjari Jayanta Bhatta.
Sankhyatattvakaumudi.

Vivaranaprameyasangraha.

Shankara Shariraka Bhashya, Adhyaya II, Padas I and II.

Rhys David's Lectures on Buddhism (delivered in America).

Group D.-Paleography and Epigraphy.

Questions on Kafia and Shafia, Mukhtasar-ul-Maani and Muhituddair will be set in both Examinations.

A general knowledge of the literary history of Arabia down to the time of Hariri will be expected from candidates.

Questions on Hadequl Balaghat and Meyarel Ashaar will be set in both Examinations.

A knowledge of Persian history and general litetature, from 996 down to 1860 A.D., and of Arabic as far as is necessary for understanding Arabic quotations and allusions, will be expected from candidates.

Mental and Moral Science.

PLATO: Republic (in an English translation, either
JOWETT'S or DAVIES and VAUGHAN'S).

ARISTOTLE: Nicomachean Ethics.

PETERS OF WILLIAMS.)

KANT: Critique of Pure Reason.

MAX MÜLLER.)

(Translated by

(Translated by

BOSANQUET: Psychology of the Moral Self.

HUME: Inquiry concerning Human Understanding and Inquiry concerning the Principles of Morals. GREEN: Prolegomena to Ethics.

SETH: Scottish Philosophy.

WARD: Psychology. (Reprint of article

chology" from Encyc. Brit.)

"Psy.

SIGWART: Logic. (Translated by DENDY, 2 Vols.)

Parts prescribed

Vol. I.-Introduction

245-374.

and pages 1-175,

VOL II. Introduction and pages 181-418. WEBER: History of Philosophy. (Translated by THILLY.)

The following is the distribution of papers between the Previous and Final Examinations:

Previous.

PAPER I.-Plato's Republic; Aristotle's Ethics, with questions on the history of Ancient Philosophy; Hume's Inquiry concerning Morals and Green's Prolegomena.