(b). "To call ourselves a microcosm or little world, I thought it only a pleasant trope of rhetorick, till my near judgment and second thoughts told me there was a real truth therein." (c). "I am not so much afraid of death as ashamed of it." (d). "Though my grave be England, my dying place was Paradise ; and Eve miscarried of me before she conceived of Cain." 2. Explain the occasion of Milton's writing his "Areopagitica." Had he before him any model or parallel? Did the speech produce any effect? How did Milton himself suffer from the licensers? When was the Press delivered from licensers ? 3. Reproduce from "Areopagitica" Milton's eulogy of the English nation and of the city of London. 4. What principle in Milton's scheme of education determines the chronological order in which various subjects shall be studied? What results follow from the application of this principle? Is the principle in your opinion a sound one ? 5. Write a notice of Eve tempted, and Eve fallen (as contrasted with Adam), pointing out what Milton conceived to be the special weaknesses and special nobilities of womanhood. FRENCH. DR. ATKINSON, 1. Give some account of the social influences of "chevaleresque poetry. There existed comic heroic poems in langue d'oil even in the 12th and 13th centuries? (b). Ariosto's indebtedness to the langue d'oil? 2. What were the mutual relations of literature and society in the 11th and 12th centuries in France? 3. There are several chansons de geste referring to Guillaume Fierebrace: give some account of the history contained in each. Write notes on the word: tafur, hanneton, plot, deputaire, grimoire, bélier, garçon, blaireau, abri. 5. Contrast the views of Max Müller and Fuchs as to the influence of the Germanic population on the development of the Romance languages. 6. Discuss the question whether the Romance languages are a development or a corruption of the Latin. 7. Write (in French) an article on V. Hugo's "Les feuilles d'automne." 8. Compare the sonnets of Soulary (as to internal unity, subject, &c.) with those of any other modern French poet. 9. (b). Give the “bouts rimés " of any six of Soulary's sonnets. What theory of art is set forth by Gautier in his poem "l'art?" mantic school. IO. What is the train of thought in "le chateau du Souvenir"? с II. Write out any six stanzas from as many different poems in "Emaux et Camées." 12. Translate accurately these passages :— (a). une gaze de brume estompe arbres, maisons, plaines, coteaux, (b). un jour louche et douteux se glisse (c). ses aubes fouettent l'eau sonore. (e). la bardane aux larges contours. (f). j'empâte un ornement de glaise. un reflet bleu d'aile de geai. Translate the following into French : minence. It is impossible to compare the whole class to-day with what it was before the Union was formed, and not acknowledge the great moral change wrought. Equally impossible it is to ignore the vast change which the Union has wrought in public opinion. The condition of the agricultural labourer, from being no question at all, has suddenly started from nothing into prominence, and become almost the question of the day. Parliament and the press vie with each other in asserting this proIs any one bold enough to say that all this stir would have been made had not the formation of the Union forced the subject into notice? If the Union, then, were dissolved tomorrow, agricultural labourers would still have to credit it with a large amount of benefit of a very permanent character. The stone would still continue to roll though the power which set it in motion were annihilated, The pool once stirred would never become stagnant again, The landowner would never again be permitted to ignore his responsibilities. The farmer would shrink from a return to the antiquated idea that labourers are worth less care than cattle. The labourer would never again be content with underpaid serfdom in a hovel. Public opinion once roused could not be silenced. Progress, the result of union, would be henceforth sure, even though the Union were dissolved. But with the Union at its back, neither stamped out, nor likely to be stamped out, but speedily and temperately pushing it forward, progress will of course be much more rapid. GERMAN. PROFESSOR SELSS. 1. Translate into German : The respect we pay to wealth absorbs the respect we should pay to genius. Literary men have not with us any fixed and settled position as men of letters (Schriftsteller). In the great game of honours, none fall to their share. We may truly say: We pay best, first, those who destroy us, generals; second, those who cheat us, politicians and quacks; third, those who amuse us, singers and musicians; and least of all, those who instruct us. A literary man with us is often forced to be proud of something else than talent-proud of fortune, of connexion, of birth, in order not to be looked down upon. Byron and Walpole are instances of this singular feeling. A professor of chemistry who eulogised Boyle concluded his panegyric thus: "He was a great man, a very great man; he was father of chemistry, and brother to the Earl of Cork."-BULWER. 2. Translate the following lines of Faust, and point out the scenes and the context from which they are taken : (f). Heraus mit eurem Flederwisch! Nur zugestossen, ich parire. 3. Describe with as much precision as possible the motives which induce Faust in Goethe's tragedy to conclude a compact with the spirit of Evil. 4. Explain the professed purpose of Freytag's social novels, in accordance with the motto which he selected for his "Soll und Haben." What was that motto? from what author did he take it? 5. Kreyssig pronounces the "Verlorene Handschrift" a caricature, and not a faithful representation of German society. What features of the novel can be mentioned to support this critique? Has Freytag accurately depicted the life of the scholar, or that of the prince? 6. Give some account of Freytag's dramas and of his last novel-Die Ahnen. 7. Describe Goethe's relations to Nicolai-Lavater-the two Stolbergs-Lili and Herder. 8. Mention the names of the four most remarkable Minnesänger, and the age as well as the dialect in which they have written. 9. What is the subject of Till Eulenspiegel-Frosch-Mäusele-Krieg— Pfaffe Amis-Theuerdank-Hildebrandslied, and to what epochs of German literature do they severally belong? 10. Give some account of Opitz, Bodmer, and Gottsched, and describe the nature of their influence on the literature of Germany. 11. Translate: Als darauf Hans dem Doctor Hahn den Vorschlag machte, bei einem Spiel Blindekuh mitzuwirken, so nahm Fritz Hahn als selbstverständlich an, dass der Professor unterdess den Vater in der Laube unterhalten werde. Er hätte sich's kaum getraut, seinen gelehrten Freund zu dieser Ausschweifung aufzufordern. Wie erstaunte er aber, als Ilse das Tuch zusammenlegte, zu dem Professor trat und ihn aufforderte, sich zuerst als Blindekuh umbinden zu lassen! Der Professor sah auf dieses Ansinnen ganz glücklich aus, bot Haupt und Hals sanft wie ein Opferlamm der Verhüllung, und liess sich von Ilse in den Kreis der kleinen Wilden führen. Lärmend umringte ihn der Schwarm; die dreisten Kinder zupften ihn am Rockschoos, sogar Ilse wusste einen Knopf seines Rockes zu fassen und zog leise daran; er aber fuhr mit den Händen umher um die Frevlerin zu ergreifen. Als ihm dies nicht gelang, nahm er seinen Spazierstock und ging wie der blinde Sänger Demodokus tastend umher, um einen Phaeaken mit der Stockspitze zu fassen? Er traf richtig auf Ilse; sie aber hielt das Stockende ihrer Schwester hin, und Clara pfiff darauf; der Professor aber rief: Fräulein Ilse! Ilse freute sich herzlich dass er falsch gerathen, und der Professor sah darüber sehr betreten aus.-G. FREYTAG. I. Find the relation between the power and the resistance on a rough inclined plane; and hence determine the best angle of draught. 2. If three forces which act on a rigid body be in equilibrium, prove that their lines of action must lie in one plane, and be either parallel or meet in a point. 3. A heavy ball suspended by a fine wire makes 27 oscillations in 4 minutes; find the length of the wire, approximately. 4. Find the time in which a weight of 5 lbs. hanging vertically will draw a weight of 30 lbs. along a smooth horizontal table of 15 ft. length; the bodies are supposed to start from rest, and the weight of the connecting string is neglected. 5. With what velocity should a projectile be discharged, at an elevation of 300 in vacuo, so as to strike an object at a distance of 2000 ft. on an ascent of 1 in 50? 6. Find the magnitude of a uniform pressure which would cause a mass of 50 lbs. to pass over 100 yds in half a minute; starting from rest. MR. BURNSIDE. 7. Three forces are represented in magnitude and direction by lines drawn from the vertices of a triangle to the points of bisection of the opposite sides; prove that they equilibrate. 8. One of two forces meeting at a point is double the other, and their resultant is equal to half their sum; find the angle between them. 9. Forces act along the sides of a triangle, and their resultant passes through the centres of the inscribed and circumscribed circles; find the ratio of the forces. 10. A body is projected vertically upwards with a velocity which will carry it to a height of 29 feet; show that after three seconds it will be descending with a velocity g. 11. Find the line of quickest descent from a given point to a given line, under the action of gravity. 12. Two bodies, their masses being m and m', are connected by a string passing over a smooth fixed pulley; determine the tension of the string during the motion. MR. M'CAY. 13. Deduce the principle of the parallelogram of forces from the rule for finding the resultant of two parallel forces. 14. Prove that the square of the resultant of three forces, P, Q, R, meeting in a point, is P2 + Q2 + R2 + 2QR cos QR + 2RP cos RP + 2PQ cos. beieg the angle between P and Q. 15. Find the range on a horizontal plane and time of flight of a projectile. 16. Give any proof of the formula for the time of oscillation of a pendulum. 17. Two perfectly elastic and equal bodies meet directly with equal velocities; find the ratio of their masses if one of them be reduced to rest. 18. A roof is wholly composed of beams forming isosceles triangles; find the horizontal thrust on the walls. B. MR. WILLIAMSON. 1. Find the value of the radius of curvature at the origin of the spiral of Archimedes r = a0. |