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What kind of sentence is the follow

SECTION III. ing? Analyse it fully.

"The studies of Philosophy and Eloquence are congenial to a popular state, which encourages the freedom of inquiry, and submits only to the force of persuasion."

SECTION IV. 1. Name the different kinds of verbs, and state what is meant by the terms voice, mood, tense, number, and person, when applied to verbs.

Enumerate our principal auxiliary verbs.

2. What must verbs agree with in number and person, and what verbs govern the objective case? Show how each of these rules is exemplified in the passage given in Section II.

SECTION V. 1. What is a preposition, and what case do English prepositions govern?

Write down all the prepositions in the passage given in Section II., and put after each the word which it governs.

2. Give the meanings of the following Latin prepositions, and exemplify them by English compound words in which they occur, viz. :-ad, de, pro, præter, sub, supra, ante, post, inter, extra.

SECTION VI. Write a brief account of the sources and growth of the English language.

LATIN.

1. Decline in all cases Deus, cœlum, domus, nullus homo.

2. Give an example or two of adjectives which have their superlative degrees ending in limus.

3. Give the comparative and superlative degrees of prope, and superus.

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4. The cardinal numbers from 10 to 30.

5. The prepositions that govern the ablative.

6. The second persons plural, indicative and subjunctive, of the verbs nolo, possum, and eo, in all the tenses.

7. Translate into Latin-My father and mother were very pious, I will follow their good example. Young men hope that they shall live long.

8. Translate into English-Amplius opinione: subeunt muros vir bonus beneficiorum recordabitur: malo cum Pompeio vinci, quam cum illis vincere.

GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY.

Candidates are not permitted to answer more than one question in each section.

GEOGRAPHY.

SECTION I. Draw a map of—

(a) Some county in which you have lived, inserting the rivers, hills, towns, and bounding counties.

Or, (b) One of the countries on the continent of Europe, with rivers, mountains, and lines of latitude and longitude.

Or, (c) Australia, India, or the Canadian Dominion, with the like additions.

SECTION II. Describe in words

(a) A voyage from London to Bristol, naming in order as many as you can of the headlands, bays, islands, and towns which you would pass on either hand.

Or, (b) The principal rivers of Scotland, with their courses, and the towns on their banks.

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Or, (c) The great plain of Europe, the countries situated in it, their capitals and population. more minute description of Holland.

SECTION III. 1. Enumerate the British possessions in the Western Hemisphere, and give an account of one of them.

2. What possessions has the United Kingdom in Africa, and in what respect are any of them valuable? Describe Cape Colony, and Natal.

3. Describe the natural features of Australia, and name its divisions, the chief products and ports of each division, and the mode in which it is governed. In what does the value of Australia to the mother country chiefly consist ?

SECTION IV. 1. Name the great oceans on the earth's surface, and give their relative positions.

Which of them has the most islands? State what you know about the depth of the ocean, and its saltness. 2. Name the various countries of Asia, with the capital of each. Describe the Japan Islands.

3. Describe the territory covered by the United States of America, and name as many of those States as you

can. In what State and on what water (if any), are Boston, Philadelphia, Portland, Washington, Chicago, New Orleans, San Francisco, Richmond, Buffalo, respectively?

HISTORY.

SECTION I. 1. Give the dates of the reigns of all the kings of England that have borne the name of Henry, and state to what dynasty each belonged. Describe the reign of Henry the First.

2. Do the same with respect to the kings of Scotland named James, and relate in detail the story of James the First.

SECTION II. 1. Give some account of the life and death of William Rufus. What historical edifice, still in existence, did he commence?

2. Relate the story of Macbeth and Malcolm Canmore.

3. The granting of the great Charter by King John, and the chief provisions of that Charter.

SECTION III. 1. Relate the circumstances under which John Baliol became for a time king of Scotland. How did he lose his kingdom?

2. What was the origin of the Wars of the Roses? Describe the career of Warwick the king-maker.

3. Who was sovereign of England at the close of the 16th century, and what was the condition of the country as to power, government, laws, religion, and manners?

SECTION IV. 1. Give an account of the reign of James the Second, and the Revolution of 1688.

2. Describe the latter years of Queen Anne's reign, and the circumstances under which George the First was seated on the throne.

3. Write a short account of three of the following persons, viz. :-Boadicea, The Venerable Bede, Canute the Great, Simon de Montfort, Roger Bacon, the Good Lord James Douglas, The Regent Murray, John Knox, Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Thomas More.

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words adapted to the comprehension of children, with illustrations from school life.

3. What methods have been adopted within your knowledge for correcting these faults in children: inattention, untruthfulness, laziness, impertinence, sullenness, and with what effect?

SECTION VII. 1. Explain the physical and moral advantages of drill for children.

2. Write out some story illustrating courage-in the way in which you tell it to a class-when one or more of the children had shown some foolish timidity.

3. What games in the playground would you encourage? Let your answers show that you understand how to treat children of different ages.

MUSIC.

THREE HOURS allowed for this Paper and the one on School Management together.

The Tonic Sol-fa questions are printed in italic. Candidates must keep ENTIRELY to one set of questions or the other.

1. Write under each of the following notes its name (A, B, or other).

1. What is the name of the 3rd tone of the scale? What of the 7th ?

2. Distribute the following into bars (or measures) of common time.

2. How do the relations between the 3rd and 4th tones,

and between the 7th and 8th, differ from those between, any two other following tones?

3. What places in the major diatonic scale do the semitones occupy?

3. Which are the emphasized notes in a measure of fourpulse time? Which in a measure of three?

4. Write the scales of F and of G, placing the essential sharp or flat before any note requiring it.

4. Write any tune, or portion of a tune, with which you are acquainted.

ARITHMETIC.

Male Candidates.

The solution must in every instance be given in full length. A correct answer, if unaccompanied by the solution, or if not obtained by an intelligible method, will be considered of no value. [This direction was repeated in the Arithmetic Paper for Female Candidates (p. 40), and in the Paper on Algebra (p. 42).]

SECTION I. 1. Add together two hundred and seven; fifty thousand nine hundred and fifty; one million and thirty thousand; seven thousand and ninety-nine; nine hundred and seventy-five thousand three hundred and twenty-one; ten thousand and fifteen. Take away from the sum ninety-eight thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven. Multiply the remainder by seventy-nine, and write out the answer in words.

2. Divide 200,000 by 256 by long division and by factors.

SECTION II. 1. Multiply 570,492 by seven thousand nine hundred and eighty-five.

2. How many farthings in £19 17s. 11ąd.?

3. Find the tons, cwt., qrs., and lbs. in 17,849,247 lbs. SECTION III. 1. If a postman walks on an average 18 miles a day for 6 days in the week, and is paid 21s. weekly, how much is that per mile ?

2. A man carries a weight of 12 lbs. for five miles every day, how many days must he do this to earn £50 at 2d. per lb. per mile?

SECTION IV. 1. What is the cost of 5 tons 13 cwt. 1 qr., at £5 58. per ton ?