"Miles Standish."

X

THE COMMONWEALTH

Papers,--

1. Oliver Cromwell and Puritanism.

2. Ireland and Its Problems.

Home Rule.

3. Blake and the English Navy.

4. The Women of the Civil War.

(See Traill's "Social England," Vol. IV, p. 315.)

Suggested Readings,--

Carlyle's "Cromwell."
Evelyn's Diary.
Shorthouse's "John Inglesant."
Browning's "Strafford."

XI

THE RESTORATION

Papers,--

1. Charles II.

Character, Continental Experiences.
General Monk, The Triple Alliance.
The Plague and the Fire.

2. Science.

Newton.
The Royal Society.

3. Literature and the Stage.

Milton's Epic.
Dryden.
Bunyan.
The Dramatists.

4. James II.

The Bloody Circuit.
Siege of Londonderry.
Coming of William of Orange.
The Battle of the Boyne.

Suggested Readings,--

Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress."
Pepys' Diary.
Evelyn's Diary.
Dryden's "Annus Mirabilis."
Defoe's "History of the Great Plague."
Scott's "Peveril of the Peak."
Blackmore's "Lorna Doone."
Conan Doyle's "Micah Clarke."

XII

THE REVOLUTION, AND EVENTS TO GEORGE III

Papers,--

1. William and Mary.

Bill of Rights.
Bank of England.

2. Anne.

Marlborough.
Politics in England.
Union of Scotland, Ireland and Wales with England.
The young Pretender.
The Pamphleteers.

3. George I and George II.

Sir Robert Walpole.
Jacobin plots.
South Sea Company.
Methodists.
Clive in India.
French and English in America.

4. Literature.

Addison and Steele.
Swift.
Defoe.
Johnson.

Suggested Readings,--

Thackeray's "Henry Esmond."
Scott's "Waverley."
Southey's "Battle of Blenheim."
Addison's "Sir Roger de Coverley."
Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe."
Johnson's "Rasselas."

XIII

GEORGE III

Papers,--

1. The Industrial Revolution.

Wedgewood, Hargreaves, Watt.
Arkwright.
Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations."

2. The American Revolution.

The Parliamentary Leaders.

3. The French Revolution.

Burke's "Reflections."
The War in Spain.
Wellington and Waterloo.
Nelson (Lady Hamilton).

4. England and the Slave Trade.

William Wilberforce.

5. Art of the Period.

Painting.

Gainsborough.
Reynolds.
Romney.

Furniture.

Hepplewhite.
Chippendale.
Sheraton.

The Adams brothers.

Suggested Readings,--

Hugo's "Les Miserables" (Battle of Waterloo)