University of Virginia Library

SCHOOL OF MODERN LANGUAGES.

Prof Schele De Vere.

The subjects taught in this school are:

1. The French, German, Italian, and Spanish languages.

2. The Literature of these languages, and the History of each idiom, embracing the
general principles of the formation and growth of languages, and of Comparative Grammar
and Philology.

3. The Anglo-Saxon language, and, in connection with it, the History and Laws of
the English language.

Graduation in French and German is required for the degree of A. M.
Diplomas of Graduation are conferred in each of the four languages
mentioned in § 1; a Certificate of Proficiency in Anglo-Saxon.

French.

Text-Books.—Junior Class.—The Professor's Grammar and First Reader, Télémaque,
Charles XII.

Senior Class.—The Professor's Grammar, Molière, Racine, Voltaire, Saintine's
Picciola, Masson's Dictionary. A course of private reading is prescribed.

German.

Junior Class.—Otto's Grammar, Whitney's Reader, Schiller's William Tell.

Senior Class.—Whitney's Grammar, Adler's Dictionary, Schiller's Works, Gœthe's
Autobiography and Faust, Jean Paul's Flegeljahre. A course of private reading is
prescribed.

Spanish.

The Professor's Grammar, Seoane's Dictionary, Velasquez' Reader, Don Quixote,
Calderon's El Principe Constante, Lope's Estrella de Sevilla.

Italian.

Bacchi's Grammar, Monti's Reader, Manzoni's I Promessi Sposi, Tasso's Gerusalemme
Liberata, Pellico's Le Mie Prigioni, Dictionary.

Anglo-Saxon.

Shute's Manual of Anglo-Saxon, The Professor's Studies in English.