II. What and where are,-Kiel, Zanzibar, Fundy, Uri, Adelaide, Demerara, The Giant's Causeway, Callao, Swansea, The Landes, Cotopaxi, Luxemburg, Ujiji, Massowa, Erzgebirge, Guardafui?

[N.B.-The answer to this question should be tabulated. By the word 'where' is meant,-If a town, in what country and on what river is it? If a river, in what country is it and into what sea, &c., does it discharge itself? In each case two facts, at least, should be mentioned so as to fix the position with some accuracy.]

III. Enumerate the British colonies and foreign possessions in Europe, Africa, and South America; and state which of them is of the greatest political and which of the greatest commercial importance. Briefly justify your answer.

IV. Draw either (not both) of the two following maps.

(1.) A map of the North Atlantic Ocean, taking as your Northern limit a line from Newfoundland to C. Finisterre, and as your Southern limit a line from C. San Roque to C. Palmas. On it mark the position of,-New York, Halifax, C. Hatteras, The Gulf of Mexico, New Orleans, Chesapeake Bay, Jamaica, The Caribbean Sea, Trinidad, Barbadoes, Cayenne, Bermuda, C. Verd, and Madeira.

(2.) A map of the Western Coast of Europe from the head of the Gulf of Bothnia to C. Finisterre. On it mark the position of,St. Petersburg, Riga, Stockholm, Copenhagen, The mouth of the Elbe, Amsterdam, Ostend, Cherbourg, The Channel Islands, The mouth of the Loire, Bordeaux, The Bay of Biscay, and Heligoland.

V. What countries do the following people inhabit :-Waldenses, Magyars, Maories, Copts, Ashantees, Caffres, Esquimaux, Walloons, Circassians, and Papuans.

VI. To what countries does England send coal, linen, earthenware, machinery and hardware? Also mention the principal exports of the United States.

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VII. Define the geographical position of each of the following places; and give one piece of general information regarding each of

VIII. Draw a sketch-map shewing the Collectorates in the Madras Presidency, with one town or city, and one river, in each.

IX. State what tributary rivers send their waters into the Indus; name the districts lying between, or immediately adjacent to, any of these; or to the course of the Indus itself; and give the names of 6 cities or towns which are on the banks of any of them.

X. The Russians are said to have advanced their frontier to the right bank of the Oxus; mention two cities of Turkestan which they, in this case, hold; and two which are still independent.

XI. In passing from Cape Comorin to the mouth of the Obi, by land, in as direct a line as possible, what ranges of mountains and what rivers would be crossed; and what cities might be easily visited?

FIRST EXAMINATION IN ARTS, DEC., 1873.

MONDAY, 15TH DEC., 10 A.M. TO 1 P.M.
ENGLISH POETRY.

Julius Cæsar AND Marmion, CANTOS I-III.
JOHN BRADSHAW, M.A.

I. (a.) Brutus and Cassius differed on three important points in the course of the events narrated in Julius Cæsar. Mention these; and state what turn, you think, events would have taken on the supposition that Cassius instead of Brutus had been the leader of the conspiracy.

(b.) Give in prose (without making quotations), writing in the first person, and bringing out the train of reasoning as minutely as you can

The reply of Brutus to the proposal that 'Antony and Cæsar should fall together.'

II. Turn into idiomatic Prose

Nor mourn ye less his perished worth,-

His worth, who, in his mightiest hour,
A bauble held the pride of power,

Spurned at the sordid lust of pelf,
And served his Albion for herself;
Who, when the frantic crowd amain
Strained at subjection's bursting rein,
O'er their wild mood full conquest gained,
The pride, he would not crush, restrained;
Showed their fierce zeal a worthier cause,

And brought the freeman's arm to aid the freeman's laws.

III. Paraphrase the following passages, so as to explain all metaphorical or ambiguous expressions :

(a.) Cassius

It is meet

That noble minds keep ever with their likes;

For who so firm that cannot be seduced?

Cæsar doth bear me hard; but he loves Brutus ;
If I were Brutus now, and he were Cassius,

He* should not humour me.

(*To whom does he refer ?)

(b.) Security gives way to conspiracy.
(c.) How hard it is for women to keep counsel.
(d.) Just at the age, 'twixt boy and youth,

When thought is speech, and speech is truth.
(e.) Condemned to stem the world's rude tide,
You may not linger by the side;

For Fate shall thrust you from the shore,
And Passion ply the sail and oar.

(f.) The judges felt the victim's dread.

IV. (a.) Parse fully the italicised words, showing the construc. tion or agreement in each case :

(1.) Prompt on unequal tasks to run,

Thus Nature disciplines her son.

(2.) They drunk the monks of St. Bothan's ale.

(3.) To frame love ditties passing rare.

(4.) Is not the leaf turned down where I left reading?

(b.) Express the meaning of for, in each of the following quota. tions, by a prepositional phrase:

(1.) Far fairer have I seen

Than she, for all her locks of jet.

(2.) They would for terror pray.
(3.) For pillow, underneath each head

The quiver and the targe are laid.

(4.) For Mark Antony,-think not of him.

(c.) Give the meaning of-belike; headsman; settle (noun); uN« derman (verb).

(d.) Write brief notes on the form or use of the italicised

(e.) In what sense now obsolete, does Shakspeare use-annoy ; apprehensive; battle; deny?

(f.) What is (a) the Shakesperian, and (b) the modern use of each of the following phrases

(1.) to take thought;' (2.) 'to call in question ;' (3.) ' to stand upon ceremonies;' (4.) 'to break with one;' (5.) 'to be resolved;' (6.) 'in respect of.'

V. (a.) What are the descriptive epithets Scott applies to Honour, Fear, Faith, and Valour, respectively, in his apostrophe to

the Genius of Chivalry?

(b.) Explain fully the allusions in the following:

(1.) The world defrauded of the high design

Profaned the God-given thought and marred the

lofty line.

(2.) Dark Thessalian cave,

(3.) The leopards in the shield.

(4.) The Flemish counterfeit

That on the gibbet paid the cheat.

(c.) Quote a couplet from Julius Cæsar, and another from Marmion, each spoken by one of the principal characters, expressive of their indifference to death.

(d.)

"We make holiday to see Cæsar, and to rejoice in his triumph."

What battle had Cæsar recently gained ?

(e.) Give the other readings for

(1.) Casca. Your ear is good. Cassius, what night is this?

(2.) He only in a general honest thought

And common good to all made one of them.