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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, Spiers and Surenne'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.

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.