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See ABERCROMBIE on the Moral Feelings.

WHEWELL'S Elements of Morality.

BROWN'S Ethics.

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Letters to my Unknown Friends. Temper."

78. Which was the greatest Hero, Alexander, Cæsar, or Buonaparte?

See PLUTARCH'S Lives.

CARLYLE'S Hero-Worship.

"The Hero as King."

NIEBUHR'S History of Rome.

ARNOLD'S History of the Roman Commonwealth.
BOURRIENNE'S Napoleon.

79. Which was the worse Monarch, Richard the Third or Charles the Second?

See SHARON TURNER'S Richard the Third.

MACAULAY'S History of England.

SIDNEY'S Diary of the Times of Charles the Second.

WALPOLE'S Historic Doubts.

HALSTED'S Richard the Third.

80. Which was the greater Man, Franklin or Washington?

See Life and Times of Washington. Family Library.
BANCROFT'S History of the United States.
MACGREGOR'S Progress of America, vol. i.
MAUNDER'S Biographical Treasury.

Various Lives of Franklin.

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81. Is it probable that America will hereafter become the greatest of Nations?

See PUTNAM's American Facts.

BUCKINGHAM's America.

LYELL'S America.

MACGREGOR'S Progress of America.

COMBE'S Notes on America.

HAMILTON'S Men and Manners in America.
WYSE'S America.

82. Should not greater Freedom of Expression be encouraged in Debate?

See BRANDE'S Dictionary of Science, Literature, and Art. Art. "Eloquence," and the authorities there quoted.

CICERO. De Oratore.

HUME'S Essay on Eloquence.

83. Which was the greater Poet, Chaucer or Spenser?

See HAZLITT's British Poets.

COWDEN CLARKE'S Riches of Chaucer.

MITFORD'S Edition of Spenser.

TYRWHITT'S Edition of Chaucer.

BELL'S English Poets.

84. Is the present a Poetical Age?

See WARWICK's Poets' Pleasaunce.

Introduction to LEIGH HUNT's “Imagination and Fancy."
MOIR's Treatise on Poetry.

FOSTER'S Handbook of Modern European Literature.
MONTGOMERY's Lectures on Poetry.

MACAULAY'S Essays.

LORD JEFFREY'S Essays.

85. Was Louis XIV. a great Man?

See MISS PARDOE'S Louis XIV.

JAMES'S Life of Louis XIV.
MICHELET'S History of France.
MACAULAY'S History of England.
CROWE'S History of France.
VOLTAIRE'S Age of Louis XIV.

36. Is it the Duty of a Government to make ampler Provision for the Literary Writers of the Nation? See SOUTHEY'S Colloquies on Society.

GRISENTHWAITE on the Claims of Genius.

FORSTER'S Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith.

87. Which is the greater Poet, Mrs. Howitt or Mrs. Hemans?

See ROWTON's Female Poets.

GILFILLAN's Literary Portraits. Mary Howitt.
LORD JEFFREY's Essay on Mrs. Hemans.

88. Should not all national Works of Art be entirely free to the Public?

See Debates in Parliament on the subject.
HAMILTON on Popular Education.

89. Are not the Rudiments of individual Character discernible in Childhood?

See Essays on the Formation of Character.

COMBE on the Constitution of Man.

COMBE on Infancy.

See Early Influences.

JEAN PAUL RICHTER'S Levana.

90. Is not Satire highly useful as a Moral Agent?

See the Works of RABELAIS. Duchat's translation.

LEIGH HUNT's Wit and Humour.

Eclectic Review, 1845. The Satirical Writers of the
Middle Ages.

STERNE on Satirical Wit.

HAZLITT on the Comic Writers of England.

MADAN'S Juvenal and Persius.

91. Has not the Faculty of Humour been of essential Service to Civilisation?

See LEIGH HUNT'S Wit and Humour.

MACKINNON'S History of Civilisation.

CARLYLE'S Miscellanies. Article on Richter.
HAZLITT on the Comic Writers of England.
BURTON's Anatomy of Melancholy.

92. Is it not to Emigration that England must mainly look for the Relief of her Population?

THORNTON'S Over-population and its Remedy.

MERIVALE'S Colonisation and Colonies.

TORRENS on Emigration.

Reports of Emigration. Commissioners.

Morning Chronicle. Articles on Emigration. 1850.

HOWITT's Colonisation.

LAING's Notes of a Traveller (second series).

93. Does National Character descend from age to

age?

See CARLYLE on Characteristics.

PRICHARD on the History of Man.

COMBE on the Constitution of Man.

94. Do the Associations entitled "Art Unions" tend to promote the Spread of the Fine Arts?

See Reports of Art Unions.

MRS. JAMESON's Art and Morals.

95. Is it possible that the World will ever again possess a Writer as great as Shakspere?

See DRYDEN on Shakspere.

HAZLITT on Shakspere.

SCHLEGEL on Shakspere's Drama.

VOLTAIRE on Shakspere.

96. Is the cheap Literature of the Age on the whole beneficial to general Morality?

See Publications of the Society for the Diffusion of Know. ledge.

BACON on Knowledge.

CHAMBERS'S Publications generally.

97. Should not Practice in Athletic Games form a Part of every System of Education?

See WALKER'S Manly Exercises.

REES'S Cyclopædia. Art. "Gymnastics."

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