Rasselas, 1759.
A Journey to the Hebrides, 1775.
Taxation no Tyranny, 1775.
Lives of the Poets, 1777–1781.

IV. CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF ENGLISH

HISTORY AND LITERATURE IN JOHN-
SON'S TIME

1701–1714. Queen Anne. 1709. The Tatler. 1711. The Spectator. 1714-1727. George I. 1715–1774. Louis XV., King of France. 1715. First Jacobite Rising under “James III.,” or “ The Old

Pretender." 1715. Pope's Iliad. 1723. Pope's Odyssey. 1726. Swift's Gulliver's Travels. 1727-1760. George II. 1730. Thomson's Seasons. 1732. Pope's Essay on Man. 1740–1786. Frederick II., “the Great," King of Prussia. 1740-1780. Maria Theresa, “ The Empress Queen” of Austria

and Hungary. 1740-1748. War of the Austrian Succession. (In America called

King George's War.) 1740. Richardson's Pamela.

1742. Fielding's Joseph Andrews. 1745–1746. Second Jacobite Rising under Charles Edward,

“ The Young Pretender.” 1748. Richardson's Clarissa Harlowe. 1749. Fielding's Tom Jones. 1751. Gray's Elegy. 1754. Hume's History of England. 1756. Burke's Sublime and Beautiful. 1756–1763. Seven Years' War. (In America called the French

and Indian War.) 1759. Sterne's Tristram Shandy. 1760–1820. George III. 1765. The Stamp Act. 1766. Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield. 1769. Letters of Junius. 1770. Goldsmith's Deserted Village. 1773. Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer. 1775. Battle of Lexington. Sheridan's Rivals. 1776. Declaration of Independence. Gibbon's Decline and

Fall of the Roman Empire. 1777. Sheridan's School for Scandal. 1783. Peace with America.

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(1) MACAULAY

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VI. NOTE ON METHODS OF STUDY

It is impossible to lay down any method of study for this work which would suit even the majority of teachers or classes. Every teacher of English who is worth anything will have his own method of imbuing his pupils with a knowledge and love of the master works of our literature. The main point is to make the study interesting. A dry method, though it may be scholarly and thorough, with secondary school pupils at least, often defeats its own end. It makes no lasting impression. All the average pupil acquires is an extreme dislike for oựr classic literature. I well remember with what diabolical glee I burnt my Virgil when its study was completed — that Virgil which, in after years, I read with intense delight.

Macaulay's Life of Johnson is such a good narrative, so clearly and vivaciously told, that the pupils, if they are not at first bothered with technical points of style, will read it through with much pleasure. Those notes which give extracts from Boswell and other authorities on Johnson, and characteristic