What marked difference in manner of treatment is shown in Macaulay’s Milton or Addison and Carlyle’s Burns?  What was Carlyle’s message in Sartor Resartus?  What did Huxley and Tyndale say of his influence?  What are the most noteworthy qualities of The French Revolution?  What are the chief characteristics of Carlyle’s style?

Ruskin.—­In Vol.  I., Part II., of Modern Painters, read the first part of Chap.  I. of Sec.  III., Chap.  I. of Sec.  IV., and Chap.  I. of Sec.  V., and note Ruskin’s surprising accuracy of knowledge in dealing with aspects of the natural world. The Stones of Venice, Vol.  III., Chap.  IV., states Ruskin’s theory of art and its close relation to morality.  Excellent selections from the various works of Ruskin will be found in An Introduction to the Writings of John Ruskin, by Vida D. Scudder.  Selections are also given in Century, Manly, II., Riverside Literature Series, and Bronson’s English Essays (Modern Painters and Fors Clavigera).  Sesame and lilies, The King of the Golden River, and The Stones of Venice are published in Everyman’s Library.

What was the message of Modern Painters? of The Stones of Venice? of Fors Clavigera?  Why is Ruskin called a disciple of Carlyle?  Select a passage from Ruskin’s descriptive prose and indicate its chief qualities.

Bronte, Bulwer Lytton, Gaskell, Trollope, Kingsley, Reade, Blackmore, and Barrie.—­Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte), Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte), Last Days of Pompeii (Lytton), Cranford (Gaskell), Barchester Towers (Trollope), Westward Ho! (Kingsley), The Cloister and the Hearth (Reade), and Lorna Doone (Blackmore) are all published in Everyman’s Library.  Barrie’s The Little Minister is included in Burt’s Home Library.  The works of the Bronte sisters will be much more appreciated if Mrs. Gaskell’s Life of Charlotte Bronte (Everyman’s Library) is read first.  The novels by the Bronte sisters, Mrs. Gaskell, Trollope, and Barrie record their impressions of contemporary life.  The other novels are historical.  Lytton gives a vivid account of the last days of Pompeii.  Kingsley thrills with his story of the sailors of Elizabeth’s time.  Reade, who studied libraries to insure the accuracy of The Cloister and the Hearth, portrays vividly the oncoming of the Renaissance in he fifteenth century.  Blackmore’s great story, which records some incidents of the Monmouth rebellion (1685), is written more to interest than to throw light on history.

Dickens.—­The first works of Dickens to be read are Pickwick Papers, A Christmas Carol, and David Copperfield.  These are all published in Everyman’s Library.  Craik, V., gives “Mr. Pickwick on the Ice,” “Christmas at the Cratchit’s,” and two scenes from David Copperfield.