UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. A HAND-BOOK TO THE STUDY OF LATIN, GREEK, FRENCH AND GERMAN, ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE, ARITHMETIC, ALGEBRA, PLANE AND SOLID GEOMETRY, TRIGONOMETRY, AND OTHER SUBJECTS INCLUDED IN THE ABOVE EXAMINATION; TOGETHER WITH NUMEROUS QUESTIONS SET IN RECENT YEARS, REMARKS ON PLANS OF STUDY, SELF-PREPARATION, PECULIAR INTEREST TO ALL CANDIDATES FOR M417790 DATION, ABOVE UNIVERSITY, JOHN HEYWOOD, EXCELSIOR BUILDINGS, RIDGEFIELD, JOHN DALTON STREET, AGENTS : SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & Co., LONDON. PAGE Translation into English ; with Remarks on the Use of Keys.. 9 Questions on the given Authors 13 Translation into English ; with Remarks on some Peculiarities of 28 LISTS OF CLASSICAL TEXT-BookS, TRANSLATIONS, AND HELPS. 32 Virgil, Horace, Cicero, Livy, Tacitus 32 Homer, Xenophon... 36 Other Useful Works for the Study of Greek and Latin 88 EXAMINATION-PAPERS IN LATIN 40 EXAMINATION-PAPERS IN GREEK 57-66 CHAPTER II.-FRENCH AND GERMAN. FRENCH .. 68 Translation into English; with Remarks on the Study of Idioms and the Idiomatic Rendering of Locutions Françaises.. 68 French Prose : Books for Reading and Translation. 72 French Poetry: its Peculiarities 73 French Dictionaries 74 French Grammar as based upon Philogical Principles. 75 Questions in French Grammar. 81 GERMAN.. 83 Translation into English. 84 German Dictionaries.. 85 German Grammar 85 LIST OF ADDITIONAL BOOKS FOR THE STUDY OF FRENCH AND GERMAN 86 For Students of French 86 For Students of German. 90 EXAMINATION-PAPERS IN FRENCH .91-100 EXAMINATION-PAPERS FOR HONOURS IN FRENCH 97-100 EXAMINATION-PAPERS IN GERMAN 101-7 CHAPTER III.-MATHEMATICS. ARITHMETIC. 109 A Few Elementary Principles 111 Some Text-Books 113 Méthode de Reduction a l'Unité. 114 Other Text-Books, chiefly Theoretical. 117 Logarithms and Annuities.. 119 LGEBRA. 120 Important Principles and Propositions. 122 I.-The Determination of Factors. 123 II.-Reduction and Manipulation of Fractions. The G.C.M. and the L.C.M. 127 III.-Ratio, Proportion, and Variation 130 IV.-Permutations and Combinations 134 V.-Examples in Permutations and Combinations 140 VI.-The Arithmetical Treatment of Permutations and Com- binations 150 VII.- Arithmetical and Geometrical Progressions 151 VIII.-Examples in Arithmetical and Geometrical Progression 160 IX.-Simple and Quadratic Equations. Some Methods of Solution 167 X.- The Theory of Quadratic Equations and Quadratic Expressions 180 |