hours. Books offered--three hours for each book. General paper, grammar, &c.—three hours.

II. Candidates must also offer one of the following subjects :— (1) The History of the Greek Drama, with Aristotle's Poetics.

(2) The History of Attic Oratory, with, in 1916, Aristotle, Rhetoric III, in 1917 and thereafter, Dionysius Halicarnassensis, πepì Λυσίου and περὶ Δημοσθένους (Teubner text, Usener-Rademacher,

vol. i, pp. 8-53, 127–252).

(3) The History of Roman Poetry to the end of the Augustan Age, with Quintilian, Book X, to be studied with special reference to the literary criticism contained therein.

(4) The History of Latin Prose Style, with Cicero's Orator.

(5) The elements of Deductive Logic, with

Either, Selecta ex Organo Aristoteleo Capitula (Clar. Pr. 1897)—

Or, such portions of Inductive Logic as are contained in Mill's
Logic, Bk. III, ch. i-iv, vi-viii, x-xii, and xx.

(6) Either, the elements of Comparative Philology as applied to
Greek and Latin, with a special knowledge of either Greek
or Latin Philology. Or, the Historical and Analytical Syntax
of the Greek and Latin Languages.

(7) The outlines of the history of Greek Sculpture B.C. 600-320, with the passages on the subject collected in H. S. Jones' Select Passages from Ancient Writers, illustrative of the history of Greek Sculpture.

(8) Homeric Archæology-the material civilization described in the Homeric Poems, more particularly the Buildings, Armour, Dress, Religious and Funeral Rites; and the light thrown on these subjects, and on the Composition, Date, and History of the Poems, by extant archæological remains. (Candidates are recommended to make themselves familiar with those parts of the archæological collections of the Ashmolean Museum which illustrate these studies.)

Candidates are recommended not to offer more than two of these subjects. A Candidate may offer a special subject not included in the above list, provided that he give notice to the Assistant Registrar not later than the twentieth day of October next before the Examination, and that the subject be approved by the Board.

III. All Candidates will be examined in Latin Prose Composition. Papers will also be set in Greek Prose Composition, and in Greek and Latin Verse Composition; and Candidates who do not take these papers are strongly recommended, if they omit either Greek Prose Composition or the two Verse Compositions, to offer either a fourth book taken from the list in Sect. I, clause 3, or a second subject

taken from the list in Sect. II, and if they omit both Greek Prose Composition and the two Verse Compositions, to offer both a fourth book and a second subject taken from the aforesaid lists. Each of the books which a Candidate offers from the list in Regulation I, clause 3, must be taken from a different group.

IV. In the assignment of Honours account will be taken of the total amount of work offered by a Candidate, and of the average level of excellence attained by his papers as a whole.

The following texts will be used in this part of the Examination:

* Oxford Classical Texts: where more than one impression has appeared the latest will be used.

(4)

FOR THOSE WHO SEEK HONOURS IN MATHEMATICS. Candidates will be examined in the following four groups of subjects, of which Group I will be treated as the smallest, and Group 4 as not less than either Group 2 or Group 3:—

1. Algebra Theory of Equations: Plane and Spherical Trigonometry. (No questions will be set on the theory of Infinite Products, or on theorems of Uniform Convergency; but simple questions involving the principles of the theory of Uniform Convergency may be set.)

2. Pure Geometry: Analytical Geometry of two dimensions, excluding the theory of Invariants and Covariants of two Conics: Analytical Geometry of three dimensions as far as the simpler properties of Surfaces of the Second Order, excluding the theory of Confocal Surfaces.

3. Differential and Integral Calculus, with simple applications to Plane and Solid Geometry: Differential Equations.

4. The Elements of the Statics of Solids and Fluids: the Elements of the Dynamics of Particles, and of Rigid Bodies moving in two dimensions.

Seven papers, of which one will be a problem paper, will be set in the Examination. Each paper will contain questions on subjects in at least three of the above four groups. At least three of the questions in every paper but the problem paper will be of a simple and elementary character.

Freedom of method will be allowed except when otherwise stated.

C. SECOND PUBLIC EXAMINATION.

[For Dates of the various Examinations see Pages 6 and 7.]

i. ADMISSION.

[Statt. Tit. VI. Sect. 1. C.]

§ 1. Of Admission to the Second Public Examination.

1. Except as provided in Tit. VIII. Sect. VIII, Sect. X, and Sect. XII, no member of the University shall be admitted to any part of the Second Public Examination unless he (a) has passed Responsions or is statutably exempt therefrom, or (b) has passed the First Examination for the Degree of Bachelor of Music, and in either case has satisfied the further conditions, if any, which are required by the Statutes relating to the particular School in which he is a Candidate.

2. Persons who are not members of the University may be admitted to the Second Public Examination under the conditions prescribed in Statt. Tit. VIII.

ii. THE PARTS OF THE EXAMINATION. § 2. Of the Several Parts of the Second Public Examination. 1. The Second Public Examination shall be conducted by the Public Examiners. It shall consist of an Examination for Candidates who do not seek Honours; of Preliminary Examinations; and of a Final Examination in nine Honour Schools, of which the subjects shall be:

(1) Literæ Humaniores.
(2) Mathematics.

(3) Natural Science.

(4) Jurisprudence.
(5) Modern History.

(6) Theology.

(7) Oriental Studies.
(8) English Language and

Literature.
(9) Modern Languages.

2. Candidates shall be deemed to have passed the Second Public Examination who shall either have obtained Honours in some one of the nine Honour Schools or have passed the Examination appointed for those who do not seek Honours.

3. Every Candidate shall be examined in writing and every Candidate, except in the Honour School of Mathe-. matics, shall be examined viva voce in some part at least of the subjects offered by him.

iii. PASS SCHOOL.

(i) Statute.

[Statt. Tit. VI. Sect. I. C.]

§3. Of the Examination of Candidates who do not seek Honours.

1. The subjects of examination for Candidates who do not seek Honours shall be arranged in five Groups :

A. (1) Two Books, either both Greek, or one Greek and one Latin, one of such Books being some portion

of a Greek philosophical work, and the other a portion of a Greek or Latin Historian.

(2) The whole or some portions of Greek and Roman History. Candidates will be required to show a knowledge of the Political and Descriptive Geography of the periods which they offer.

*(3) Classical Sanskrit, including translation into the language and a portion of its Literature.

*(4) The Persian language, including translation into the language and a portion of its Literature.

*(5) The Arabic language, including translation into the language and a portion of its Literature.

*(6) Classical Chinese, including translation into the language and a portion of its Literature.

*(7) The Pali language, including translation into the language and a portion of its Literature.

*(8) The Hebrew language, including translation into the language and a portion of its literature.

B. (1) Either English History, or a period of English History with specified works from English Literature, or a period of Modern European History, or a period of Indian History; together (in each case) with such Political and Descriptive Geography as is necessary to the understanding of the period of history offered in the Examination.

* Candidates intending to offer any of these Groups in Hilary Term, 1916, must give notice to the Assistant Registrar not later than the first Monday of Michaelmas Full Term, 1915 (see p. 51, cl. 14). On the first day of Easter Term, 1916, Subjects 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 will be struck out, and (8) Hebrew will be numbered (3).

(2) The French Language, including composition in the language, and a period of its Literature.

(3) The Elements of Political Economy.

(4) A branch of Legal study; among the alternatives
under this head shall always be included one or
more branches of Indian Law.

(5) The German Language, including composition in
the language, and a period of its Literature.
(6) A period of English Literature, together with por-
tions of the works of authors, of whom Shakespeare
shall always be one, to be fixed from time to time
by the Board of the Faculty of Mediæval and
Modern Languages.

C. (1)*The Elements of Algebra and Geometrical Trigonometry.

(2) The Elements of Mechanics, Solid and Fluid, treated mathematically.

(3) The Elements of Physics.

(4) The Elements of Chemistry as included in the Preliminary Examination in the School of Natural Science.

(5) The Elements of Zoology and Botany as included in the same Preliminary Examination.

(6) The Elements of Rural Economy.

D. The Elements of Religious Knowledge, which shall always include

(a) Specified portions of the Old and New Testaments, some portion of the New Testament being always offered in the Greek Text.

(b) One of the Creeds, with a specified portion of the Thirty-nine Articles agreed upon in the Convocation holden at London in the year 1562.

(c) A period of Ecclesiastical History.

Some apologetic treatise (or part thereof) to be fixed from time to time by the Board of the Faculty of Theology.

Candidates will be required to offer together at the same Examination subject (a), and any two of the three other subjects.

2. Any person who has passed the Second Public Examination may present himself for the examination in any of the Groups enumerated in Clause I above.

* See p. 49, cl. 7.