APRIL 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1243

Between any Two of the Places named in the Footnote.

*Between Stores yard, Pipitea Point, and any other point. † Between any other two points. ‡ Between Stores yard, Pipitea Point, and Nathan's Buildings. § Between Stores yard, Pipitea Point, and wharves.

NOTE.—The following are the places mentioned in column No. 10: Post and Telegraph Department Stores yard, Pipitea Point; Post and Telegraph Department Stores, Stout Street; Post and Telegraph Department Stores, Harris Street; Telephone Exchange; Railway-stations and yards; Government Printing Office; Departmental Offices; General Post Office; Nathan's Buildings; and wharves.

Leases of Railway Refreshment-rooms.

Railway Department (Head Office),
Wellington, 1st April, 1912.

THE following Schedule of accepted tenders for the leases of the various refreshment-rooms at railway-stations, for a period of five years from 1st April, 1912, is published for general information.

T. RONAYNE,
General Manager, New Zealand Railways.

Special Books in Languages and Literature for Class C Certificate and Civil Service Senior Examinations, 1913 and 1914.

Education Department,
Wellington, 28th March, 1912.

IN pursuance of regulations under the Education Act, 1908, and under the Civil Service Act, 1908, notice is hereby given that at the examination for Class C and at the Civil Service Senior Examination of January, 1913, and of January, 1914, the special books of which a knowledge will be required will be as follows :—

ENGLISH.—1913 : Shakspeare, “Romeo and Juliet,” “Hamlet”; Macaulay, “Essay on Milton”; Milton, “Samson Agonistes,” “L’Allegro,” “Il Penseroso,” “Lycidas.” In addition, a knowledge of the period of literature, 1625–1688, will be required. In the study of the literature special attention must be paid to the authors indicated for the year, but the other authors in the period are not to be neglected. The literary movements and their leaders, the current types and forms of literature and their representatives, as well as the influence of the ancient classics and of the leading Continental literatures on the English literature of the period, must also be examined. [NOTE.—In lieu of the period of literature prescribed for 1913, a knowledge of the following special books may be substituted if desired: Scott, “Waverley”; Ruskin, “Sesame and Lilies,” and “The Two Paths.”] 1914: Shakspeare, “Henry IV” (Parts I and II), “Henry V”; Pope, “Essay on Criticism”; Swift, “Battle of the Books”; Steele and Addison, “The Spectator,” The Club Papers as follows—1, 2, 12, 34, 105, 106, 108, 110, 112, 115, 117, 122, 123, 125, 126, 130, 131, 269, 295, 329, 335, 383, 517, 530, 549, 550; “The Vision of Mirza,” 159. In addition, a knowledge of the period of literature, 1688–1744, will be required. In the study of the literature special attention must be paid to Defoe, Steele, Addison, Swift, Pope, and Thomson; but the other authors of the period are not to be neglected. The literary movements and their leaders, the current types and forms of literature and their representatives, as well as the influence of the ancient classics and of the leading Continental literatures on the English literature of the period, must also be examined.

GREEK.—1913 : Xenophon, “Cyropaedia,” I and II; Sophocles, “Oedipus Rex.” 1914 : Thucydides, Book IV; Aristophanes, “Knights.”

LATIN.—1913 : Livy, XXIV; Horace, “Odes” I and II. 1914 : Sallust, “Catiline”; Terence, “Phormio.”

FRENCH.—1913 : “Tocqueville, “Ancien Régime”; Voltaire, “Zaire”; Molière, “Bourgeois Gentilhomme.” 1914 : Balzac, “Ursule Mirouet”; Rostand, “Cyrano de Bergerac”; Victor Hugo, “Ruy Blas.”

GERMAN.—1913 : Goethe, “Egmont”; Schiller, “Wilhelm Tell”; Heine, “Harzreise.” 1914 : Goethe, “Iphigénie”; Schiller, “Maria Stuart”; Riehl, “Culturgeschichtliche Novellen” (Cambridge University Press).

ITALIAN.—1913 : Manzoni, “I Promessi Sposi.” 1914 : Fogazzaro, “Il Santo”; Amicis, “Carrozza di Tutti.”

SPANISH.—1913 : Ayala, Camprodón, and Eguilaz, “Teatro Moderno Español” (David Nutt, 3/6); Trueba and La Quintana, “El Cid Campeador” (David Nutt, 3/6). 1914 : Galdós, “Trafalgar” (Pitt Press); Calderón, “Alcalde de Zalamea.”

MAORI.—No special books in Maori will be prescribed for the examination of 1913.

G. HOGBEN,
Inspector-General of Schools.