TOPICS FOR THIRD FORENSIC.*

1. Did Fletcher write the scenes which depict the ends of Cardinal Wolsey and of Queen Katharine? [See Leopold Shakespeare: Introduction.]

2. Was Falstaff originally intended to caricature the Puritans, in the person of Oldcastle? [See J. 0. Halliwell: On the Character of Falstaff. Bankside Shakespeare: First part of Hen. 4.]

3 Is the Gothenburg plan for solving the liquor problem practicable in Mass.? [See J. G. Brooks: Beauty and Socialism, in Forum, December, 1892.]

4. Satire like that of Juvenal has small practical value in the improvement of human life.

5. All aqueous solutions conducting electricity contain dissociated compounds.

6. Has the Darwinian hypothesis been to any extent weakened by recent observations and discussions?

7. How far does the beauty of organic forms qualify the theory of the survival of the fittest?

8. The glacial sand plains about Boston were deposited beneath the level of the sea, at a time of submergence of the land.

9. Byron had "the splendid and imperishable excellence which covers all his offences and outweighs all his defects-the excellence of sincerity and strength." [Quoted from Swinburne's Essays and Studies, p- 239 ]

10. Scott's poems contain more of the Homeric or epic element than other poems in the English language." [Quoted from Principal Shairp's: The Homeric Spirit in Scott. Aspects of Poetry, p, 324. Contra, See Matthew Arnold's lectures on Homer (passion) in Essays in Criticism.]

11. That the Teutonic capacity for personal loyalty has hindered more than it has forwarded the development of national life.

12. Was Philip the First's treatment of the Templars justifiable?

13. Does Zola's La Debacle fulfil the definition of a realistic novel?

14. Did Dante study at Oxford? [References: Gladstone, 19th Century, July, 1892. Plumptre, Contemporary Review, 1886(?) Moore, Dante and his early Biographers. sub Giovanni da Senavalle.]