EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Your editorial of yesterday did justice to the merits of the English department. But, as I understand the matter, the strictures, made lately on that department, have been not on the increased opportunities and requirements in English composition, but on the lack of opportunity afforded for the study of English literature in general. The department is strong in its Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton and Bacon courses, and in Anglo-Saxon and early English; but for the study of the mass of literature since the time of Chaucer, with the exception of the masters whom I have mentioned, we have but two half courses given in alternate years. But the writings of not more than ten or twelve authors at most can be studied during the year. We have absolutely no opportunity as far as I know to get instruction in the works of such authors as Spencer, Bunyan, Campbell, Congreve, Cowper, Defoe, DeQuincey, Disraeli, Fielding, Fletcher, Herrick, Johnson, "Junius," Keats, Landor, Lovelace, Macaulay, Marlowe, Miss Martineau, Mill, Pepys, Percy, Richardson, Sheridan, Smollett, Stanley, Steele, Sterne, Swift, Tennyson, Thackeray, Thomson, Waller, - the list might be continued indefinitely. Every student of English literature should know something about every one of these authors. The only courses of instruction granted to us in which we can learn something about the general literature of England, (for I purposely omit all reference to American authors) are two unsatisfactory half-courses, in neither one of which is given more than twenty-eight hours of instruction during the year. These half courses, besides being wholly inadequate to the needs of the college, are so grouped, moreover, that they cannot be taken in conjunction with some others of the most valuable and deservedly popular courses.

A good suggestion has recently been made in regard to a course in Contemporaneous History. But would it not be wise to strengthen our insufficient English department before attention is turned to bettering our already satisfactory and creditable department of History.