'Catiline'; 'Leviathan'; 'Areopagitica'; 'Annus Mirabilis' ; 'Tale of a Tub'; 'Idea of a Patriot King'; 'Essay on Criticism'; 'Letters on a Regicide Peace'; 'Wealth of Nations'; 'Modern Painters'; 'Earthly Paradise.'

4. Describe three of the following characters :-The Good Persoun (Chaucer); Banquo; Polonius; Silas Marner; Major Pendennis; Will Honeycomb; Mr Winkle; Doctor Maclure; Caliban; Monkbarns; Guinevere.

SECTION B.

5. (a) How does Shakespeare contrast the behaviour of the French leaders with that of the English on the eve of the battle of Agincourt? Describe fully.

Or,

(b) How is the character of "Henry V." developed by Shakespeare in the play?

6. Write a full account of the part played in the story byEither (a) Hal o' the Wynd,

Or

(b) The Fair Maid of Perth.

SECTION C.

7. Give an account of the state of parties in Scotland during the reign of Robert III., and of the relations of Scotland with England and France at that time.

8. Write notes on six of the following: Suetonius Paulinus in Britain; Anglo-Saxon system of Government and judicial system; effects of the Norman conquest upon England; Henry I.'s Charter of Liberties; Constitutions of Clarendon; Black Death and the Peasant's Revolt; Pilgrimage of Grace; Battle of Sauchieburn; Battle of St Albans; Benevolences.

9. Write, upon six of the following, notes to illustrate their historical importance: Boadicea; Lanfranc; Stephen Langton; Simon de Montfort; Cardinal Wolsey; Earl of Warwick (Kingmaker); Margaret of Anjou; The Maid of Orleans; John of Gaunt; John Knox; William of Wykeham.

10. Trace the course of the Reformation in England, or in Scotland, down to 1567.

SECTION D.

1. What are our chief imports from the United States, and what our chief exports to that country? Name and locate the chief sea-ports of the United States on the Atlantic sea-board.

2. What circumstances have helped to develop cotton manu

factures in the western part of our island? Give the chief centres of the cotton manufacture in Great Britain, and the destination of cotton goods exported from this country.

3. What are our chief imports from Canada, Brazil, South Africa, New Zealand, India, West India Islands, Australia, Russia, Egypt. Name and locate parts in each from which goods are exported to Britain.

4. Locate and indicate in a note the importance of the following: Riga, Kiel, Melbourne, Singapore, Hong-Kong, Durban, Mombassa, Karachi, Rangoon, San Francisco, Alaska, Baku, Smyrna.

ENGLISH (NEW MODEL).

The

(Eight questions to be answered. One and two must be answered, and either three or four, and either five or six. remaining four may be any questions in the paper not already answered.)

1. Write an essay, from two to three pages long, upon one of the following subjects:

(a) The influence of the press.

(b) The qualities required in a successful doctor.
(c) Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe.'

2. Paraphrase the following passage :—

"Her fresh and innocent eyes

Had such a star of morning in their blue,
That all neglected places of the field
Broke into Nature's music when they saw her.
Low was her voice, but won mysterious way
Thro' the sealed ear to which a louder one
Was all but silence-free of alms her hand-
The hand that robed your cottage-walls with flowers
Has often toil'd to clothe your little ones;
How often placed upon the sick man's brow,
Cool'd it, or laid his feverous pillow smooth!
Had you one sorrow and she shared it not?
One burthen and she would not lighten it?
One spiritual doubt she did not soothe?

Or when some heat of difference sparkled out,
How sweetly would she glide between your wraths,
And steal you from each other! for she walk'd
Wearing the light yoke of that Lord of love,
Who still'd the rolling wave of Galilee !”

3. Give some account of four of the following: Roman Britain from 78 A.D.; Conversion of the English to Christianity; Struggle of the Barons with the Crown during the reigns of William II. and Henry I.; Conquest of Ireland in the time of Henry II.; John's Contest with the Church; Struggle of the Scots for Independence under Robert Bruce; Wars in France of Edward III.'s reign; State of parties in Scotland during the reigns of Robert III. and James I.; Elizabeth and Mary Queen of Scots; The "Sea-Dogs" of Elizabeth's reign.

4. Tell what you know of four of the following: The Feudal system in England under the early Norman Kings; Contest of the Crown with the Church during reigns of Henry Í. and Henry II.; Struggle of the Crown with the Barons under Henry III.; Joan of Arc; Henry VIII.'s breach with Rome; The Pilgrim Fathers; Charles I.'s contest with Parliament (1640-1642). Chief Acts of Parliament passed during reign of Charles II., with the main provisions in each; Trial of the Seven Bishops; Chief provisions of Revolution Settlement; The Union of the Scotch and English Parliaments; William Pitt, Earl of Chatham; Lord Nelson; The Chartists and the Free Trade Movement; The Crimean War.

5. Mention the chief island possessions of Great Britain in the Old World-outside the British Isles; and state shortly the value of each to this country. Mention leading towns connected with

each.

6. State what industries are associated with any six of the following river-basins: Clyde, Trent, Shannon, Garonne, Charente, Ohio, La Plata, Essequibo, Ganges, Loire. Mention the most important industrial centres in each basin. 7. Improve the following sentences, and give reasons for the changes you make :—

(a) I saw my old school-fellow again by mere accident when I was in London at the time of the first Exhibition, walking down Regent Street, and looking in at the shops.

(b) I would be sorry to accept a different belief than this, that if a man once knew a habit to be injurious, he was capable of emancipating himself from it.

(c) Being particularly gracious towards Longfellow, and having just written that authors were like cats, sure to purr when stroked the right way, Longfellow interrupted him with: "I purr, I purr."

(d) The veracity of this story is questionable, and there is the more reason for doubting the truth of the narrator, because in his remarks on the observation of the

Sabbath he distinctly alludes to a custom that can be shown never to have existed.

8. Give a general analysis of the following passage, and parse the words italicised :

"Tis the mass of men He loves;

And, where there is most sorrow and most want,
Where the high heart of man is trodden down
The most, there most He is, for there is He

Most needed."

9. Explain and exemplify the following terms: Diphthong, verbal noun, finite verb, noun clause, double plurals, reflexive pronoun. Show also the difference in use between: Further and farther, elder and older, latter and later,

Or,

Write down separately and give the force of (a) the prefixes in: Disdain, ignorance, purpose, disaster, benumb, antidote, withstand; and (b) the suffixes in: Worship, chivalry, wisdom, necessity, other, cadence, seldom.

10. Give the derivation of six of the following words; Curfew, chancellor, cicerone, alms, kerchief, peasant, homage, wanton, wassail, currants, vinegar, stoical.

11. Name the authors of six of the following works, and give an account of one of the works: The Bruce'; 'The Thrissel and the Rois'; 'The Winter's Tale'; 'Comus'; 'The Rape of the Lock'; 'Battle of the Books'; 'The Seasons'; 'The Traveller'; 'The Gentle Shepherd'; 'The Giaour'; 'Marmion'; 'Quentin Durward'; 'The Caxtons'; 'Felix Holt'; 'The Cloister and the Hearth.'

12. Describe the proceedings consequent upon a dissolution of Parliament, from the appeal to the constituencies, till the assembling of the new Parliament, and the formation of a new Ministry.

See also the Lower Standard Papers in LATIN, GREEK, and MATHEMATICS for the Preliminary Examinations in Arts and Science.

FRENCH.

I. TRANSLATION.

Translate into English :—

Le premier trait qu'on remarque alors en Italie, c'est le manque d'une paix ancienne et stable, d'une justice exacte, et d'une police surveillante comme celle à laquelle nous sommes habitués chez nous. Nous avons quelque peine à nous représenter cet excès d'anxiété, de désordres et de violences. Nous sommes depuis

trop longtemps dans l'état contraire. Nous avons tant de gendarmes et de sergents de ville que nous sommes enclins à les trouver plus incommodes qu'utiles. Chez nous, lorsque quinze personnes se rassemblent dans la rue pour voir un chien qui s'est cassé la patte, un homme à moustaches arrive et leur dit: "Messieurs, les rassemblements sont défendus, dispersezvous." Cela nous paraît excessif; nous maugréons (we object) et nous oublions de remarquer que ces mêmes hommes à moustaches donnent au plus riche et au plus faible l'assurance de se promener seul et sans armes à minuit dans les rues désertes. Supprimons-les par la pensée, et figurons-nous un monde dans lequel la police soit impuissante ou indifférente. On trouve de semblables pays dans l'Australie, en Amérique, par exemple, dans les places où les chercheurs d'or accourent en foule et vivent au hasard, sans former encore un état organisé. Là, si l'on craint ou si l'on reçoit un coup ou une insulte, à l'instant on décharge son revolver sur le concurrent ou sur l'adversaire. Celui-ci riposte, et parfois les voisins s'en mêlent; à chaque instant il faut défendre son bien ou sa vie, et le danger est là, brutal, subit, qui presse l'homme de tous les côtés.—TAINE.

II. GRAMMAR.

1. Distinguish between any six of the following pairs: le, la manche; le, la vapeur; le, la voile; le, la manœuvre; le, la mousse; un, une enseigne; le mépris, la méprise; le côté, la côte; le fil, la file.

2. Distinguish between: (a) le ciseau, les ciseaux; la pratique, les pratiques; les aïeux, les aïeuls; (b) de méchants vers, des vers méchants; un triste personnage, un personnage triste; un pauvre homme, un homme pauvre.

3. Make feminines of any three of the following adjectives, and of any three of the following substantives: doux, roux, civil, gentil, dévot, sot; le compagnon, le docteur, le gendre, le serviteur, le dieu, le loup.

4. Translate: On Saturday, 21st March 1896, from half-past two to a quarter to four in the afternoon.

5. Answer any one of the following questions :

(a) Give 3d pers. sing. pres. indic. of-mouvoir, s'asseoir, hair, bouillir, naître, jeter.

(b) Give 3d pers. sing. preterite of—acquérir, savoir, s'en aller, tenir, écrire, croître.

(c) Give 3d pers. sing. future of—pouvoir, falloir, pleuvoir, envoyer, employer, mener.

(d) Give 2d pers. sing. pres. subj. of-mouvoir, falloir, voir, faire, plaire, devoir, acheter.