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Statics and Dynamics, including the simpler parts of the
Theory of Attraction and Rigid Dynamics.

The Elementary Mathematical Theory of one of the sub-
jects prescribed for the course in Mathematical Physics
of the Third Year in Arts.

HONOURS DEGREE.-Candidates may offer themselves for examination in any Mathematical subjects distinctly in advance of those prescribed for the B.A. Course, the subjects to be chosen from both the Departments of Pure and Applied Mathematics, and to be approved by the Professor of Mathematics.

The examiners will be at liberty to declare that candidates, though they may not have deserved Honours, have acquitted themselves so as to deserve the ordinary Degree, and such candidates shall be held to have passed the examination for that degree.

SCHOOL OF MODERN LITERATURE.

Candidates may offer themselves for examination in one or more of the following subjects:

1. English Philology, English Literature before Chaucer, Special knowledge of Beowulf, the Chronicle, and Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knight will be required. 2. English Literature from Chaucer to the present day. Special knowledge will be required of three of the following authors:-Chaucer, Shakespeare, Burke, Tennyson.

3. German Philology. German Literature before Klopstock. Special knowledge of the Niebelungen Lied, Walter von der Vogelweide, Hans Sachs (Dichtungen, Goedeke and Tittman).

4. German Language and Literature from Klopstock to the present day. Special knowledge will be required of Goethe's Novels and Dramas, of Schiller's Plays and Poems, and of Lessing'schief Dramas and Prose Works. 5. French Philology. French Literature till 1600. Special knowledge will be required of the Chanson de Roland, of the Romances and Pastorals (Romanzen and Pastorellen, ed. Bartsch), and of Montaigne.

6. French Language and Literature from 1600 to the present day. Special knowledge will be required of

Molière, of Voltaire's Historical Works and La
Henriade, of Sainte-Beuve's Port Royal, and Hugo's
Dramas.

Subject to the approval of the Professor of Modern Literature, candidates may offer other books and authors of similar nature and extent in place of those specified.

In all these subjects there may be vivá voce examination in addition to the examination in writing.

Candidates will be required to present an essay on some subject connected with the period, and written in the language they have selected. The choice of the subject will be left to themselves, but must be approved by the Professor.

Candidates for Honours are required to offer (a) not less than two of the preceding subjects, or (b) one of the six subjects mentioned, along with one of the subjects prescribed for Classics, Philosophy or History. In the latter case the approval of both Professors concerned must be obtained.

SCHOOL OF HISTORY.

Candidates are required:

(A) To write an essay on some subject approved by the Professor of History. The essay should be of not less than 50 pages, and of not more than 150 pages. The essay must be sent to the Registrar on or before the 15th of February.

(B) To offer themselves for examination in one or more of the following subjects:

(1) The Renascence and the Reformation, 1453 to 1535. BOOKS RECOMMENDED.-Machiavelli's Prince; Erasmus' Praise of Folly; Cellini's Autobiography; Luther's Primary Works (ed. Wace & Buchheim); Symonds' Renascence in Italy; Creighton's Papacy; Lilly's Renaissance Types; Beard's Hibbert Lectures; Beard's Luther; Villari's Savonarola; Froude's Erasmus; Bridgett's More; Gairdner's English Church in the 16th Century; Pastor's Papacy; Ranke's Popes; The Cambridge History, vol. i.

Or,

The History of Protestantism in England from Wycliffe to Milton. Candidates will be expected to show knowledge of Continental Protestantism in so far as it has influence on the development of Protestant thought and practice in England.

BOOKS RECOMMENDED.-Special knowledge will be required of the following: Wycliffe's Select English Works, Vol. 3, pp. 211-496 (ed. T. Arnold); Luther's Primary Works (ed. Wace and Buchheim); Calvin's Institutes; Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity-Preface; Milton's Treatises on Church Government and Christian Doctrine.

The following books are also recommended for study:- Lechler's Wycliffe; Trevelyan's England in the time of Wycliffe; Beard's Hibbert Lectures; Beard's Luther; The Zurich Letters; Masson's Life and Times of Milton; Gairdner's English Church in the 16th Century; Wakeman's History of the Church of England.

(2) The History of England from 1637 to 1660.

Special knowledge will be required of the following:-Clarendon, Books I to VIII.; Cromwell's Letters and Speeches (ed. Carlyle); Ludlow's Memoirs ; Hutchinson's Memoirs; Milton's Political and Ecclesiastical Pamphlets; Gardiner's Constitutional Documents.

The following books are also recommended:-Gardiner's History of England from 1603 to 1642; Gardiner's Great Civil War, and Commonwealth and Protectorate; Masson's Life and Times of Milton; Morley's Cromwell; Firth's Cromwell; Firth's Cromwell's Army; Firth on "Clarendon's History of the Rebellion "in English History Review for 1904.

(3) The History of England from 1756 to 1797.

Special knowledge will be required of the following:-The Political Works of Burke; Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations; Paine's Common Sense and Rights of Man; Young's Travels in France.

The following books are also recommended:-Lecky's History of England; Trevelyan's C. J. Fox; Trevelyan's American Revolution; Morley's Burke.

(4) The Growth of British Industry and Commerce from 1776 to the present. time. Knowledge will also be required of the development of economic theory during the period.

Special knowledge will be required of the following:-A. Smith's Wealth of Nations; J. S. Mill's Political Economy; Cobden's Speeches on Freetrade; Carlyle's Past and Present.

The following books are also recommended :-Some recent handbook on Political Economy, as e.g., Marshall, Nicholson, or Walker. Some account of the development of economic thought in England, as e.g., Ingram or Price. Ruskin's Unto the Last; Toynbee's Industrial Revolution; Cunningham's Growth of English Industry and Commerce in Modern Times; Gibbins' Industry in England; Morley's Cobden; Hobson's Ruskin; Hobson's Problems of Poverty; Webb's Trade Unionism; Webb's Social Democracy.

Subject to the approval of the Professor of History, candidates may offer other subjects of similar nature and extent in place of those specified above.

Candidates who seek Honours are required to offer not less than two subjects.

Candidates may also be required to take papers on English History. Those candidates, however, who have shown adequate knowledge of this subject in the examinations held in connection with the Degree of B.A. will not be required to take these papers.

PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS.

Full particulars regarding these examinations can be had on reference to the "Manual of Public Examinations," which contains the By-laws, Subjects of Examination, Books Recommended, Directions for Candidates, Examination Papers, &c., and is obtainable from almost any bookseller.

*SCHOLARSHIPS, EXHIBITIONS, PRIZES, &C.

All students of the University who shall during their course have received Bursaries, Exhibitions, Scholarships or Fellowships, or Exemptions from Fees, are invited by the Senate to make returns to the University when their circumstances in life shall permit, for the purpose of conferring like benefits on future students. The names of all students making such return will be published in the University Calendar.

AWARDED AT THE MATRICULATION EXAMINATION.

The SALTING Exhibition-Awarded on the recommendation of the Trustees of the Sydney Grammar School to a student proceeding thence to the University. £25 for three years. (See page 226.) The last award was made in March, 1906.

The BOWMAN-CAMERON Scholarship-Every third year, for

General Proficiency. £40 for three years. (See page

216.) The last award was made in March, 1905.

The COOPER Scholarship No. II.-Awarded to a student distinguished in Classics. £50 for one year. (See page 215.) The BARKER Scholarship No. II.-Awarded to a student distin

guished in Mathematics. £50 for one year. (See page

213.)

The LITHGOW Scholarship-Awarded to a student distinguished in modern languages (French and German). £50 for one year. (See page 215.)

The JAMES AITKEN Scholarship-For General Proficiency. £50 for one year. This Scholarship is not given in the year in which the Bowman-Cameron Scholarship is awarded. (See page 217.)

The FREEMASONS Scholarship-For sons of Freemasons. Every third year. £50 for three years. (See page 217.) The

last award was made in March, 1905.

THE HORNER Exhibition-For proficiency in Mathematics. £8 for one year. (See page 228.)

• Scholars are required to proceed with their studies in the respective Faculties in which their Scholarships are awarded.

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