2. Ireland and Its Problems.
Home Rule.
3. Blake and the English Navy.
4. The Women of the Civil War.
(See Traill's "Social England," Vol. IV, p. 315.)
Suggested Readings, —
Carlyle's "Cromwell."
Evelyn's Diary.
Shorthouse's "John Inglesant."
Browning's "Strafford."
XI
THE RESTORATION
Papers, —
1. Charles II.
Character, Continental Experiences.
General Monk, The Triple Alliance.
The Plague and the Fire.
2. Science.
Newton.
The Royal Society.
3. Literature and the Stage.
Milton's Epic.
Dryden.
Bunyan.
The Dramatists.
4. James II.
The Bloody Circuit.
Siege of Londonderry.
Coming of William of Orange.
The Battle of the Boyne.
Suggested Readings, —
Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress."
Pepys' Diary.
Evelyn's Diary.
Dryden's "Annus Mirabilis."
Defoe's "History of the Great Plague."
Scott's "Peveril of the Peak."
Blackmore's "Lorna Doone."
Conan Doyle's "Micah Clarke."
XII
THE REVOLUTION, AND EVENTS TO GEORGE III
Papers, —
1. William and Mary.
Bill of Rights.
Bank of England.
2. Anne.
Marlborough.
Politics in England.
Union of Scotland, Ireland and Wales with England.
The young Pretender.