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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 "Ra.s.selas."

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).

d.i.c.kens' "A Tale of Two Cities."

Campbell's "Ye Mariners of England."

Wolfe's "Burial of Sir John More."

The Junius Letters.

Macaulay's "Warren Hastings."

Wilkes' "North Briton, No. 45."

Thackeray's "Four Georges."

XIV

THE VICTORIAN AGE (A)

Papers,--

1. Victoria, The Woman and the Queen.

Personality, husband, children, homes.

2. Victoria's Prime Ministers and their Policies.

Palmerston, Gladstone, Disraeli.

The Period of Reform.

Free Trade.

3. Victorian Wars.

Opium War in China.

Afghanistan.

Crimea.

Sepoy Mutiny.