Topics for third forensics. A few more topics will be announced shortly.

Was Plato justified in thinking Dramatic Poetry injurious to his ideal State? (Plato; The Republic; Sir Philip Sidney; Defense of Poesie).

Is Hexameter verse the best medium for a translation of Homer into English? (Matthew Arnold, on translation of Homer).

Were the criticisms of the Edinburgh Review in its early days helpful or injurious, on the whole, to the development of literature? (Coleridge; Biographia Literaria, Chap XXI; Saintsbury; Essays in English Literature, Articles on Sydney Smith, Jeffrey; Hazlitt; Table Talk, Article on Criticism; Early Reviews, Camelot Series, Introduction).

Did the introduction of Christianity tend to hasten or delay the fall of the Roman Empire? (Gibbon; Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chaps. XV, XVI; Hodgkin: "Italy and the Invaders," Book III, Chap. 9, "Causes of the Fall of the Roman Empire; Milman: History of Latin Christianity, Vol. I, Chap. 1; Schnasse: Geschichte der beldenden Kunste, 2e Aufl., 3r Band, 1r Kap.

Did the Jews get their doctrine of immortality in whole or in part from the Greeks? (Consult Prof. C. H. Toy).

Did the Crusades advance the real interests of Latin Christianity? (Kugler, in Oucken's Weltgeschichte; Heeren's "Essate sur 'l Influence des Croisades."

Was Joseph Dudley's final view of the Mathers just? (Barrett Wendell: Cotton Mather; Irving: History of Harvard University; Palfrey: History of New England; Sewall's Diary; Brooks Adams: Emancipation of Massachusetts).

Ought the Fisheries Treaty of 1888 to have been ratified by the United States Senate? (See under head of Fisheries 20f).

Does Rembrandt lose more than he gains by his extravagant system of chiaroscuro? (Rembrandt als Erzieher, bk I; Fromentin's "Les Maitres d' Autrefois," pp. 324-364; Ruskin's "Modern Painters," Vol. IV, Chap. 3, on "Turnerian Light)."

Are the constructive problems with which the modern builder has to deal properly considered as architectural? (Professor Hamlin: "The Difficulties of Modern Architecture," in "The Architectural Record" for the quarter ending December 31, 1891; Ruskin's "Seven Lamps of Architecture.")

Should power and responsibility be more concentrated on the Chief Executive in the State and Nation? (W. E. Russell: Inaugural Message of 1892; Woodrow Wilson: "Congressional Government;" Bryce: American Commonwealth Vol. 1; "G. B's' letters to the Nation, passim).

Do the terms 'high and low,' as applied to pleasure, signify anything else than varying degrees of intensity and duration? (Mill's Utilitarianism Chap. II; Grote: On Mill's Utilitarianism, Chap. on Quality of Pleasure; Sidgwick's and Green's articles in "Mind" 1877 on "Hedonism and the Chief Good;" Hyslop in Andover Review Nov. 1886).

Is idealism an incredible manner of conceiving the world? (J. Collyns Simon's edition of Berkeley's Principles of Human Knowledge; J. C. Fraser's Berkeley in Blackwood's Philosophical Classics; G. A. Lewes's History of Philosophy, Article Berkeley; Encyclopedia Britannica, Article Idealism).

In a socialistic community would it be impossible to establish or to follow any ideal standard for the just distribution of the income of the community?

Are there good grounds for saying that that labor only is productive which results in an addition to material wealth? (Mill: Political Economy, Book 1, Chap. III; Roscher: Political Economy, sections 48-51; Clark: Philosophy of Wealth, Chapter II).

Do Tornadoes possess a vorticular whirling motion? (Hazen: Tornadoes; Ferrel: Popular Treatise on the Winds).

Do the Coral Islands of the Pacific demand the subsidence which Darwin supposed took place? (Darwin: The structure and distribution of Coral reefs. Geological Society Journal XII, 1842, third edition; John Murray: Structure, origin and distribution of coral reefs and islands 1888, 8 mo. 12 pp. Royal Institute of Great Britain.)