an example of a year book, one is given here on the history of
England, which will be found worked out in detail in Chapter XII of this
book.

ENGLAND

I

THE COUNTRY AND ITS RACES

Papers,--

1. Geological and Prehistoric Britain; Relics of the Stone Age.
2. Physical Character of the Country, Scenery, Climate, Products.
3. The Druids and Their Remains; Stonehenge, etc.
4 The Celts; Divisions of the Race, folk lore, etc.
5. The Arthurian Legends.

Suggested Readings,--

Tennyson's "Idylls of the King."
Sir Thomas Malory.

II

THE ROMAN CONQUEST AND EARLY KINGDOMS

Papers,--

1. Julius Caesar.

Invasion of England.
Roman remains in England.
Roman Roads as they are to-day.
Boadicea.

2. Early Saxon Kings.

Augustine's Conversion of Kent.
Columba at Iona.
Aidan at Holy Island.
Caedmon at Whitby.
Venerable Bede.

3. Alfred and the Danes.

Legends.
Dunstan.
The Danelaw.
Alfred's Reforms.

4. The Last Saxon Kings.

Edward the Confessor.
Harold.
Founding of Westminster Abbey.
(Have a paper on the Abbey if you wish.)

Suggested Readings,--

Death of Columba from Bede's Ecclesiastical History. (Bohn Library.)
Tacitus' "Agricola."
Bulwer's "Harold."

III

THE NORMANS AND ANGEVINS

Papers,--

1. The Normans and the Conquest.

Normans on the Continent.
Domesday Book.
Bayeux Tapestry.

2. The Feudal System.

(See "Ivanhoe," opening chapter.)
Castles, Chivalry, Cathedrals, Cruelties.

3. The Struggle with the Papacy.

Anselm.
Thomas a Becket.

4. England and the Crusades.

5. The Great Charter.

Suggested Readings,--

Chas. Kingsley's "Hereward the Wake."
Scott's "Talisman."
Maurice Hewlett's "Richard Yea and Nay."

Read the story of the murder of Thomas a Becket from Dean
Stanley's "Memorials of Canterbury." Have some one who has seen
the Domesday Book and the Magna Charta describe them.

IV

HENRY III AND THE FIRST TWO EDWARDS

Papers,--

1. The Universities and the Friars.

Roger Bacon.

2. The Guilds and Fairs.

3. The Jews in England.

Arrival, Special Laws, Famous Jews in English history.

4. The English Parliament.

Places where it has met.
Compare with our form of government.
Describe present buildings.

5. Wallace and Bruce.

Suggested Readings,--

Marlowe's "Edward II."
Jusserand's "Way-faring Life in the Middle Ages."
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