IV. Spain.-PHILIP IV., -1665. CHARLES II., 1665-1700.

Decline in power and influence of the Kingdom of Spain.

Decline in Literature.-Spanish literature began to decline during the reign of the imbecile king, Charles II. Calderon continued to write till his death, in 1681; but no such royal favor was bestowed upon him as in the preceding reign, and Solis says "he died without a Mæcenas." Literary genius seems to have been entirely wanting in Spain after the disappearance of Calderon and his school, and a long period of intellectual darkness followed, in which scarcely a respectable writer appeared.

BOOKS OF REFERENCE.

"Memoirs of Count de Grammont" | Miss Pardoe's "Louis XIV."

(Court of Charles II.).
Fox's "Life of James II."
Mackintosh's "History of the Revo-
lution of 1688."

Pepys's "Diary and Correspondence."
Sir Walter Scott's "Peveril of the
Peak."

Collier's "Annales of the Stage."
Taine's "History of English Litera-

ture.

Thomas Fowler's "John Locke."
Sir David Brewster's "Life of Sir
Isaac Newton."

Lord King's "Life of John Locke."
Van Laun's ""
History of French Lit-

erature."

Bungemer's "The Preacher and the
King; or, Bourdaloue in the Court
of Louis XIV." (translated by
Potts).

"Molière," edited by Mrs. Oliphant
in the Foreign Classics.

Miss Thackeray's "Madame de Sévigné."

A. T. Ritchie's “Madame de Sé-
vigné."

Bayard Taylor's "Studies in German
Literature."

Mrs. Foster's "History of Italian Lit-
erature."

Manzoni's "I Promessi Sposi" (The
Betrothed Lovers).

H. M. Trollope's "Corneille and Ticknor's "History of Spanish Lit

Racine."

erature."