3. Reading:1 (a) Plays.

Molière, le Bourgeois Gentilhomme.

Les Précieuses Ridicules, L'Avare, Le Misanthrope. The plays of Scribe, Labiche, Augier, Dumas fils, Pailleron, Rostand, or of any other standard modern dramatic author. (b) Prose proper.-The works of Châteaubriand, Hugo, Balzac, Maupassant, or of any other standard modern author. (c) Poetry.-Lamartine, de Musset, Hugo, Sully-Prodhomme, Coppée.

(B) Elementary German.

1. Grammar: Whitney's German Grammar or Thomas's Practical German Grammar.

2. Composition: Collar's Eysenbach, Graded German Les

sons.

3. Reading:1

(a) Plays.

Lessing, Goethe, and Schiller.

Any modern plays of standard character.

(b) Prose proper.-Heine-Die Harzreise; Hoffmann-Meister Martin der Küfner, Das Fräulein Von Scuderi; Riehl-Der Fluch der Schönheit; Whitney's German Reader; any standard modern prose.

(c) Poetry.-Goethe-Hermann and Dorothea; Heine's poems; Scheffel-Der Trompeter Von Sakkingen.

1. Grammar:

(C) Elementary Spanish.

A Spanish Grammar (Olmsted and Gordon).

Ramsey's Textbook on Modern Spanish (or) De Arteaga, Practical Spanish.

2. Composition: Crawford's Spanish Composition.

3. Reading:1

(a) Plays. Calderon-La Vida es Sueño; Moratín-El sí de las niñas; Galdós-Electra; any other modern standard plays.

1 The indications under "3. Reading" do not mean that all the authors mentioned will be required, nor that all of a given author's works must be read. The scope is made purposely broad, so as to cover possible variations in the course of study pursued by the candidate.

(b) Prose proper.-Valera-Pepita Jiménez; Alarcón-El Capitan Veneno, El Sombrero de Tres Picos; or any standard modern prose.

2. GENERAL HISTORY.

So much of the history of ancient Greece and Rome as is contained in good high-school textbooks on those subjects and the important facts in general ancient history and in the history of medieval Europe to the end of the fifteenth century; also so much of the political, social, and economic history from the end of the Middle Ages to the present day and the fundamental principles of civil government historically considered as is contained in the following or any other recognized textbooks of an equivalent standard, namely:

Outline of the World's History (Swinton).

A Political History of Modern Europe (F. Schwill).

The Development of Modern Europe (J. H. Robinson and C. A. Beard).

Readings in Modern European History, Volume II (Robinson and Beard).

The Development of the State (Dealy).

3. ELEMENTARY SURVEYING.

The applicant need not be a practical surveyor. He must have, however, a good general knowledge of the instruments and methods used in topographical surveying and must be proficient in reading a contoured map.

The requirements are fully covered in Part I, Chapters I-IV, inclusive; Part II, Chapters I (omitting paragraphs 68-70, inclusive), II, IV (omitting paragraphs 118 and 119), V (omitting paragraphs 130–133, inclusive), VI (omitting paragraph 159), VIII, IX, and X of Military Topography for the Mobile Forces, Sherrill, third edition.

GROUP III.

1. ADVANCED ENGLISH.

(a) Such general knowledge of American and English literature and their history as is covered by works on these subjects of the standard of the following:

History of English (Champneys).

English Literature (Long).

A History of English Literature (Moody and Lovett).
Introduction to American Literature (Pancoast).

American Literature (Bronson).

(b) Ability to write understandingly on the subject matter of the works of the principal American and English authors. One or more compositions will be required on subjects taken from 10 of the works in the following list. Preparation is expected on two works in each group, and the choice of subjects indicated in the examination will be broad enough to cover the special preparation of the candidate.

The candidate is not expected to have a minute knowledge of the subject matter of these books; and he may not offer mere knowledge of the books as a substitute for the ability to write good English. His aim should be to acquire through his reading the power to express his own thought. He is expected, however, to have such a general knowledge of the books as would come from fresh and thoughtful reading.

I. Shakespeare's As You Like It; Henry V; Julius Cæsar; The Merchant of Venice; Twelfth Night; Midsummer Night's Dream.

II. Bacon's Essays; The Sir Roger de Coverly Papers in the Spectator; Franklin's Autobiography; Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield; Scott's Ivanhoe; Scott's Quentin Durward; Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables; Thackeray's Henry Esmond; Mrs. Gaskell's Cranford; Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities; George Eliot's Silas Marner; Blackmore's Lorna Doone; Stevenson's Treasure Island.

III. Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Part I; Macaulay's Essays on Lord Clive and Warren Hastings; Thackeray's English Humourists; Selections from Lincoln, including the two Inaugurals, the Speeches in Independence Hall and at Gettysburg, the Last Public Address, and a brief memoir or estimate; Parkman's Oregon Trail; Thoreau's Walden; Stevenson's Inland Voyage and Travels with a Donkey.

IV. Irving's Sketch Book; Lamb's Essays of Elia; De Quincey's Joan of Arc and the English Mail-Coach; Carlyle's Hero as Poet, as Man of Letters, and as King; Emerson's Essays (selected); Ruskin's Sesame and Lilies.

V. Palgrave's Golden Treasury (first series), Book II and III, with especial attention to Dryden, Collin, Gray, Cowper, and Burns; Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard and Goldsmith's The Deserted Village; Coleridge's The Ancient Mari

ner and Lowell's The Vision of Sir Launfal; Scott's The Lady of the Lake; Byron's Childe Harold, Canto IV, and the Prisoner of Chillon; Palgrave's Golden Treasury (first series), Book IV, with especial attention to Wordsworth, Keats, and Shelley; Poe's The Raven; Longfellow's The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Whittier's Snow Bound; Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome, and Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum; Tennyson's Gareth and Lynette, Lanceolot and Elaine, and the Passing of Arthur; Browning's Cavalier Tunes, The Lost Leader, How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix, Home Thoughts from Abroad, Home Thoughts from the Sea, Incident of the French Camp, Hervé Riel, Pheidippides, My Last Duchess, Up at a Villa-Down in the City.

(c) Questions will be asked on the following books: Shakespeare's Macbeth; Tennyson's Idylls of the King, or Milton's Comus, L'Allegro, and Il Penseroso; Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America, or Washington's Farewell Address and Webster's First Bunker Hill Oration; Macaulay's Life of Johnson, or Carlyle's Essay on Burns.

This part of the examination will be upon subject matter, form, and structure, and presupposes the thorough study of each of the books named. In addition, the candidate may be required to answer questions on the leading facts in those periods of English literary history to which the prescribed works belong.

2, 3, AND 4. MODERN LANGUAGES.

(Either French, German, or Spanish may be chosen.) Thorough knowledge of the grammar and construction of the language chosen, with ability to translate idiomatically to or from English, and to write original compositions on a subject chosen from a given list.

The examination will generally include:

(a) One or more translations from the language chosen into English of quotations from various authors.

(b) Translations from English into the language chosen. (c) Translations to and from English of selected sentences, with especial regard to idiomatic peculiarities.

(d) Paraphrases of quotations.

(e) Grammatical construction, declensions, conjugations, etc., usually of selected words and phrases from preceding quotations or sentences.

(f) A composition of at least 250 words in the language selected on a subject chosen from a list given in the examination papers.

5 AND 6. ANALYTICAL GEOMETRY AND CALCULUS.

The scope of the examination in higher mathematics will be that of a final examination at the end of the sophomore or junior years in the scientific courses of recognized colleges and technical schools, and is covered by the following or any other recognized textbooks of an equivalent standard, namely: Analytical geometry, Tanner and Allen.

Differential calculus, McMahon and Snyder.
Integral calculus, D. A. Murray.

7. MILITARY ART AND FIELD ENGINEERING.

Handling of commands not larger than a battalion, map reading, principles of military topography, and field fortification, to the extent covered by the following books:

Drill Regulations of the Three Arms (Combat only), Field Service Regulations, 1914 (Parts I, II, and III).

Studies in Minor Tactics.

Military Topography-Sherrill (Chapters I, II, and III, Part I, and Chapters I, II, III, IV, V, and VI, Part III only). Applied Principles of Field Fortification for Line OfficersWoodruff (Chapters II, IV, VII, IX, X, and XI).

The examination will consist of map problems and exercises designed to test the candidate's intelligent perception of the subjects, and ability to apply to concrete cases his knowledge of principles.

8. ADVANCED SURVEYING.

Part I.-General theoretical knowledge of the methods employed in mapping large areas; control of the survey; astronomical observations for azimuth, time, latitude, and longitude; trigonometrical leveling; barometric leveling; filling-in methods; projection methods.

Part II. Special knowledge of either (a) Topographical Surveying, (b) Hydrographic Surveying, or (c) Railroad Surveying.