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MEMORABILIA FOR STUDENTS.

"Whatever there is of variety and intense interest in human nature-in its elevation, whether proud as by nature or sanctified as by God's grace; in its suffering, whether blessed or unblessed, a martyrdom or a judgment; in its strange reverses, in its varied adventures, in its yet more varied powers, its courage and its patience, its genius and its wisdom, its justice and its love-that also is the measure of the interest and variety of History."-THOMAS ARNOLD.

"In all political, all social, all human questions whatever, History is the main resource of the inquirer."-F. HAR

RISON.

"He who has learnt to understand the true character and tendency of many succeeding ages is not likely to go very far wrong in estimating his own."-W. E. LECKY.

"We see how good and evil mingle in the best of men and in the best of causes; we learn to see with patience the men whom we like best often in the wrong, and the repulsive men often in the right; we learn to bear with patience the knowledge that the cause we love best has suffered, from the awkwardness of its defenders, so great disparagement, as in strict equity to justify the men who were assaulting it." -BISHOP STUBBS.

"I exhort you never to debase the moral currency or to lower the standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs your own lives, and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which history has the power to inflict on wrong."-LORD ACTON.

UNIVERSITY EXTENSION LECTURES

SYLLABUS

OF A

COURSE OF SIX LECTURES

ON

REPRESENTATIVE NATIONS

ILLUSTRATED BY THEIR ARCHITECTURE AND DECORATIVE ARTS

BY

WILLIAM H. GOODYEAR, M. A.

PROFESSORIAL LECTURER IN ART, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ;
LECTURER FOR THE NEW YORK BOARD OF EDUCATION,
TEACHERS' COLLEGE, BROOKLYN INSTITUTE, etc.

Series H, No. 2

Copyright, 1898, by

Price, 15 Cents

The American Society for the Extension of University Teaching

111 South Fifteenth Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

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From Goodyear's "History of Art." Barnes & Co., Publishers.

CATHEDRAL OF RHEIMS.

RECOMMENDED READING TO COVER THE COURSE.

GOODYEAR.-History of Art.

GOODYEAR.-Roman and Medieval Art.

GOODYEAR.-Renaissance and Modern Art.

LÜBKE.-History of Art.

MYERS.-General History.

CLASS-WORK AND TOPICS FOR WRITTEN EXERCISES. Subjects for Written Exercises may be selected from the italicized topics in the syllabus of each lecture, or such exercises may consist of abstracts or summaries of reading, as recommended under the individual lectures. It is preferred that these exercises should be prepared as original work, in advance of the delivery of the given lecture and as preparation for it, but an abstract or report based on the lecture itself and assisted by supplementary reading will also be accepted. The written exercise may also take the shape of a critique, or account of personal impressions of a book, or portion of a book, as recommended under the special lecture topics. See additional hints on the re ation of reading to written exercises at p. 5.

Students who have carefully read any three of the above mentione.l five books, who have attended all the lectures, and who have handed in four written exercises during the delivery of the course, are advised to take part in a written examination at its close, as a means of rehearsing and summarizing the knowledge acquired. The topics of the examination papers will be wholly based on the books above recommended, exclusive of Myers and of Lübke.

The reading of one, or more, of the above books in advance of the beginning of the course is urgently recommended to all who are to attend the course, irrespective of the work which may be done during its delivery, but it is especially recommended to those who contemplate undertaking the class-work.

A class will be held after each lecture which is open to all members of the audience, for questions and general discussion. Both oral and written questions are acceptable. The latter are preferable when a difficulty or topic raised by a lecture preceding that at which, the class is held, is in question. Letters to the lecturer stating difficulties, entering into discussion, or giving an account of reading done will be gladly received and considered, and will be credited as Paper work when prepared for that purpose.

The illustrations used in this syllabus are by courtesy of the publishers taken from "The History of Art" by Wm. H. Goodyear, M. A., 1 volume, 8vo., Price, by mail, postpaid, $3.50. Special price to lecture attendants, if ordered through the Secretary of the Centre, $2.25. A. S. Barnes & Co., New York, Publishers.

LECTURE I.

Egyptian Architecture and Art.

Argument of the Lecture.

The civilization and national character of the Ancient Egyptians are reflected in, and explained by, their monumental art. As regards distinctive national quality and the peculiarities which separate the old Egyptians from later historic nations, the sentiment of conservatism, and the ideal of durability and duration are especially apparent in this monumental art. This is shown in the massiveness and solemnity of architectural forms, in the strongly defined limitations and restrictions of style in architectural reliefs and decorative paintings, and in the formalism and monotonous attitudes of the statuary. As regards influence on later history the technical and mechanical arts of modern civilization are all traceable to Egyptian (and Chaldean) elements. The arts of the mason, of the architect and surveyor, of the worker in metals, of the brickmaker, potter, enameller, glass-blower, carpenter, plasterer, weaver, dyer, etc., have all survived down to modern times; mainly by way of Greek and Roman transmission. These arts are still the material and elementary basis of modern civilization.

Treatment of the Lecture.

Modern Egypt shows many interesting survivals of the conditions and surroundings of its primitive civilization and of the influences which moulded it. This is especially true of the geographical and physical characteristics of the country. A brief study of the modern country is the best approach to its ancient history. By way of this approach we also come in contact with the temple ruins, pyramids and other tombs, and the various museum relics which illustrate this ancient history.

Matter of the Lecture.

The following is a partial list of the illustrative views which develop and assist the general argument under topics which are marked by italics: Traveler's first contact with Modern Egypt.-Maps and lines of travel. Port Said. Suez Canal. Cairo. Shepherd's Hotel. Shubra Avenue. Modern Races. Kopts and Arabs. Physical Geography. The Nile at various points; at Cairo, at Kalabscheh, from the Great Pyramid, from the hills at Siout. Irrigation system. Farming scenes and Fellaheen. Modern dwellings as types of the ancient ones.

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