Professor.

Subjects of study:

HEBREW.

REV. PRINCIPAL Ross, D. D.

Three times a week.

Hebrew Grammar; Translation from Hebrew into English, and from English into Hebrew.

Text Book: Green's Elementary Hebrew Grammar.

Voltaire Charles XII., Books II and III.

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Molière: Le Bour

geors Gentilhomme. Translation from English writers; Dictation; Parsing.

Text Books: Brachet's Public School Elementary French Grammar; Supplementary Exercises. Other Text Books required will be announced at the opening of the Session.

Second French Class.

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9-10 A. M.

Subjects of study:

Molière, L'Avare; Racine's Athalie; Molière, Les Femmes Savantes (advanced section). Translation from English writers.

Molière's Tartufe is prescribed for private reading to candidates

for a First Class position at the Sessional Examinations.

Text Books: Brachet's Public School French Grammar; Exercises to the same on the Accidence and Syntax. Other Text Books required will be announced at the opening of the Session.

First German Class.

Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 3-4 P. M.

Subjects of study:

Adler's Reader; Schiller's Wilhelm Tell.

1ext Books: Otto's German Grammar; Gostwick and Harrison's Outlines of German Literature.

Second German Class.

Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 2-3 P. M.

Subjects of study:

Schiller's Wilhelm Tell; Goethe's Hermann und Dorothea.

Schiller's Geschichte des dreissigjährigen Kriegs, Part I, Book 2, is prescribed for private reading to candidates for a First Class position at the Sessional Examinations.

Text Books: The same as in First Class.

Third German Class.

Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 9-10 A. M..

Subjects of study:

Lessing's Nathan der Weise; Goethe's Egmont; Schiller's Maria

Stuart.

Schiller's Wallenstein's Tod is prescribed for private reading to candidates for a First Class position at the Sessional Examinations.

Text Books: The same as in the First Class.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE.. (George Munro Professorship.)

Professor.....

W. J. ALEXANDER, B. A., Ph. D..

First Year Class.

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12-1 P. M.

Rhetoric and English Composition, embracing Exercises in the formation of sentences, Laws of Style, Principles governing the various: kinds of Composition, etc.-Students are required to write weekly essays (for the most part on subjects connected with the course on: English Literature), which are returned with corrections, after being criticised by professor and students in an hour set apart for that purpose.

As an illustration of the principles laid down in the course on Composition, and as an introduction to the study of Literature, the following works will be read critically :

Addison: Select Essays.

Pope Rape of the Lock, *Satires and Epistles.

Johnson: London, Vanity of Human Wishes, Life of Pope,, *Lives of Addison, Collins, and Gray.

Collins: The Passions.

Gray: Elegy, Progress of Poesy.

Goldsmith: The Deserted Village.

Macaulay: Samuel Johnson, Boswell's Life of Johnson.

Books recommended: For Rhetoric: Nichol's Primer (Macmillan), and Bain's Manual (Longmans). For Literature: Hudson's Selections from Addison (Ginn & Heath, Boston); Clarendon Press Edition of Pope; Hales' Longer English Poems (Macmillan) which contains all the poetry read in the class; Macaulay, Standard Series, No. 3.

* Only for candidates seeking a First or Second Class at the Sessional Examinations..

Second Year Class.

Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 12—1 P.M.

Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton, with critical reading of the following works of each:

Shakespeare-Romeo and Juliet, Midsummer-Night's Dream, *Richard II, Julius Cæsar, *Othello, *Antony and Cleopatra, *The Winter's Tale, The Tempest; Milton-L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Lycidas, Paradise Lost, (Bks. I-IV), Paradise Regained.

Books recommended: Rolfe's or the Clarendon Press Edition of the separate plays of Shakespeare, Dowden's Shakespeare Primer, Clarendon Press Edition of Milton.

Third and Fourth Years Honours Crass.

Twice or three times a week.

The following subjects in alternate years--A in 1884–5.

A.-Detailed history of the Elizabethan and Early Stuart period, with special study of Lyly (Euphues, The Anatomy of Wit), Spenser (Faerie Queen, Bk. II), Marlowe (Doctor Faustus), Greene (Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay), Sidney (Apologie for Poetrie), Bacon (Advancement of Learning, Bk. I), Shakespeare (Henry V), Milton (Of Reformation in England, Eikonoklastes, Samson Agonistes).. Studies in the Poetry of the 19th Century, from Scott to Tennyson.

Books recommended-Morley's First Sketch of English Literature, Clarendon Press and Arber Editions of Elizabethan and Stuart authors.

B.-The historical development of the English Language and Literature to the year 1400, with a minute study of the language and (select) works of Chaucer.

Books recommended: Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Primer, Morris's Historical Outlines of English Accidence, Morris & Skeat's Specimens of Early English, Chaucer's, Prologue and Select Tales.

HISTORY AND POLITICAL ECONOMY.

Professor:

(George Munro Professorship.

REV. J. FORREST.

Third Year History Class.

Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 11 A.M.-12 M.

Subjects of study :

Medieval History and Modern History to 1648..

The class work will be conducted by means of lectures and examinations on prescribed reading.

Fourth Year History Class.

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11 A.M.—12 M.

Subject of study:

Modern History from 1648.

The class work will be conducted by means of lectures and examinations on prescribed reading. In the lectures books of reference will be named, and select portions specified for reading..

* For First Class and New Shakspere Society's Prize.

Subject of study:

Advanced History Class.

Once a week.

English History from 1603 to 1689.

The work of the class will be conducted by means of examinations on reading prescribed from Clarendon, Gardiner, Green, Hallam, Ranke and other authorities on this period.

This class is intended especially for Candidates for Honours in English Literature and History.

The work of this class will be conducted by means of lectures and examinations on prescribed reading.

Text-book: Mill's Principles of Political Economy.

Books recommended: Smith's Wealth of Nations, Cairnes' Principles of Political Economy, Carey's Principles of Social Science, Roscher's Political Economy, Fawcett's Free Trade and Protection, Carey's Harmony of Interests.

Professor..

ETHICS.

REV. PRINCIPAL Ross, D. D.

Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 10-11 A.M.

Ethics, a department of Mental Philosophy, includes the Philosophy of Man's Active, Moral, Social, and Religious nature.

1. Man an Active Being. Will, Volition, Motives and their influence, Fatalists, Libertarians, Necessitarians, Attempt to reconcile Libertarians and Necessitarians, Principles of Action.

2. Man a Moral Being. The Moral Faculty or Conscience defined, Historical review of different opinions respecting the nature of Conscience, and the Foundation of Virtue; Existence of Deity, Theism, Ontological arguments, Teleological arguments; Atheism, Idealistic and Materialistic; Correlation of Physical and Mental forces disproved; Pantheism, Its adherents very numerous, Its immoral tendency.

3. Man a Social Being. State of Nature, Hunter State, Nomadic State, Agricultural State, Commercial State, Origin and Progress of the Arts, Sciences, Commerce, Law, Government and War.

4. Man a Religious Being. Must have an object of Worship. Contents of the Intuition; Natural Religion, Importance of the Study, its grand defect, Handmaid to Revelation.

Books recommended: Flemings' Manual of Moral Philosophy; Stewart's Active and Moral Powers (Ed. Hamilton).

Professor....

METAPHYSICS.

(George Munro Professorship.)

.J. G. SCHURMAN, M. A., D. Sc.

Third Year Class.

Mondays and Wednesdays, 10 -- 11 A.M.

The problems of ancient and mediæval speculation; modern philosophy, from Descartes and Bacon to Kant and Reid; the tendencies and the historical relations of contemporary thought.

Book recommended: Berkeley's Works in Fraser's Selections.

Third and Fourth Years Honours Class.

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10-11 A.M.

Each of the following subjects in alternate sessions-A in 1884-5:

A. Greek Philosophy, with special reference to Aristotle and Plato.

B. English Empiricism-Locke, Berkeley, and Hume.

Books recommended: Plato's Theætetus and Republic; Aristotle's De Anima and Metaphysics.

Fourth Year Honours Class.

Fridays, 11 A. M. 12 M.

The Philosophy of Kant; the Development from Kant to Hegel.

Books recommended: Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (Müller's translation) Stirling's Text-book to Kant, Caird's Philosophy of Kant.

LOGIC AND PSYCHOLOGY.

Professor.....

.. REV. WM. LYALL, LL. D.

Second Year Class.

Four or five lectures a week, 3-4 P.M.

This course will consist of lectures on Mind and its phenomena,the laws and faculties of Cognition, comprising a review of the doctrines of Locke, Reid, Stewart, Brown, Hamilton, and the modern Sensationalist School,-with the philosophy of the Emotions. Under Logic will be considered-the nature of Concepts, Judgments and Reasonings; the different orders of Syllogism; the Fallacies; the doctrine of Method; the sources of Error and the means of their correction.

Books recommended: Sir Wm. Hamilton's Lectures on Metaphysics and Logie Prof. Lyall's Intellect, the Emotions and the Moral Nature.