LIST OF EXTRA SUBJECTS. Elements of English History. Ditto General Geography. Algebra, to Quadratic Equations. Plane Trigonometry to solution of triangles, and measurement of heights and distances. Elementary Mechanics. Mensuration. Practical Geometry. Fortification. Drawing. Surveying. Chemistry. One Modern Language, European or Oriental. Three hours will be allowed for the examination in each of the extra subjects. REMARKS. It will be observed from the foregoing, that the total of the qualifying minimum number of marks is 250, the full marks being 450. The qualifying aggregate to pass however is 300. Candidates are recommended therefore to make the best of the subjects in which they are most proficient. The use of slates is forbidden, also any other scribbling paper than the margins of the sheets marked with a scribbling column and issued for the purposes of the examination. Pens, ink, and paper are provided. No man, while under examination, is allowed to have in possession any book or document calculated to be of unfair use in doing the work, and if discovered in this, or in giving a comrade assistance, or receiving assistance from a comrade, he will be immediately expelled from the room. It is also not allowable to leave the room for any purpose whatever without giving up the papers while the examination in any subject is progressing. Arrangements are generally made to allow short intervals between two subjects when taken continuously. The Regimental Number, Rank, Name, Regiment, Station, and date, must be written at the head of each separate paper. Where this direction is omitted, the work upon the defective sheets will go for nothing. I.-READING. From one of the most advanced school books. Full marks 100. Qualifying marks, 60. To obtain full marks, Poetry as well as Prose is to be read aloud in an intelligent manner, with fluency, clearness, correct accentuation and emphasis. It is not, however, compulsory for a candidate to read poetry. Highest marks for reading prose only is 90. The works of Standard authors afford the best practice. The following extracts from Reading Books are of the Standard required. Ex. (a) Again: the unchilled savage of the warmer regions seeks a covering, not from the cold, but from the sun which smites him by day, and the moon which smites him by night. The palm, the banana, the soft-barked trees, the broad-leaved sedges and long-fibred grasses are spoiled by him, as the beasts of the field are by his colder brother. He becomes a sower, a reaper, a spinner, a weaver, a baker, a brewer, a distiller, a dyer, a carpenter; and whilst he is these, he bends the pliant stems of his tropical forest into roof trees and rafters, and clothes them with leaves, and makes for himself a tabernacle of boughs, and so is the arch-architect of a second great school of architecture; and, by-and-by, his twisted branches and interlaced leaves grow into Grecian columns, with Corinthian acanthus capitals, and Gothic pillars, with petrified plants, and stony flowers gracefully curling round them.-From the "Royal Reader " No. VI. B 2 Ex. (b) I solemnly declare, that but for the love of knowledge, I should consider the life of the meanest hedger and ditcher as preferable to that of the greatest and richest man in existence; for the fire of our minds is like the fire which the Persians burn on the mountains-it flames night and day, and is immortal and not to be quenched! Upon something it must act and feedupon the pure spirit of knowledge, or upon the foul dregs of polluting passions. Therefore, when I say, in conducting your understanding, love knowledge with a great love, with a vehement love, with a love coëval with life, what do I say but love innocence; love virtue; love purity of conduct; love that which, if you are rich and great will sanctify the providence which has made you so, and make men call it justice; love that which, if you are poor, will render your poverty respectable, and make the proudest feel it unjust to laugh at the meanness of your fortunes; love that which will comfort you, adorn you, and never quit youwhich will open to you the kingdom of thought, and all the boundless regions of conception, as an asylum against the cruelty, the injustice, and the pain that may be your lot in the outer world-that which will make your motives habitually great and honourable, and light up in an instant a thousand noble disdains at the very thought of meaness and fraud.-From the "Royal Reader" No. VI. Ex. (c) Will Wimble's is the case of many a younger brother of a great family, who would rather see their children starve like gentlemen than thrive in a trade or profession that is beneath their quality. This humour fills several parts of Europe with pride and beggary. It is the happiness of a trading nation, like ours, that the younger sons, though incapable of any liberal art or profession, may be placed in such a way of life, as may perhaps enable them to vie with the best of their family. Accordingly, we find several citizens that were launched into the world with narrow fortunes, rising by an honest industry to greater estates than those of their elder brothers. It is not improbable that Will was formerly tried at divinity, law, or physic; and that finding his genius did not lie that way, his parents gave him up at length to his own inventions. But certainly, however improper he might have been for studies of a higher nature, he was perfectly well turned for the occupations of trade and commerce.-From the "National Reading Book," Standard VI. There is a glorious city in the sea: The sea is in the broad, the narrow streets, No tread of men, no footsteps to and fro, And gliding up her streets as in a dream, The fronts of some, though time had shattered them, Still glowing with the richest hues of art, As though the wealth within them had run o'er.-Rogers. From "Royal Reader" No. VI. KING HENRY THE FOURTH'S SOLILOQUY Ex. (e) ON SLEEP. How many thousands of my poorest subjects And hushed with buzzing night flies to thy slumber Than in the perfumed chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lulled with sounds of sweetest melody? O thou dull god! why liest thou with the vile, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them Deny it to a king? Then happy low, lie down! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.-Shakespeare. From "National Reading Book," No. VI. II.-WRITING TO DICTATION. Full marks, 100. Qualifying marks, 60. The marks are divided, 40 being apportioned for handwriting, and 60 for spelling The exercise comprises 70 different words, given out at the rate of eight words a minute. The following extracts of the standard required should be written at the dictation of another person. Ex. (a) The exquisite and delicate mechanism of different parts of the human frame claims our highest admiration; but our wonder is greatly increased when we consider that it performs its different functions for fifty or sixty years together, with very little diminution of its power. What hinge could the most skilful workman contrive, that might be used as often as our elbow-joint is, for so long a term, without being disordered or worn out? Have we not here a strong proof of the vast |