7. Give an account of the Secret Treaty of 1670, and of the differences between Charles and Louis in connexion with it. 8. What was the Case of Skinner and the East India Company? 9. What account does Mrs. Hutchinson give of the relations of Cromwell with Lambert in 1653? 10. Describe the conduct of Lenthall, Ingoldsby and Colonel Hutchinson in the Parliament which met April 25, 1660 ? What was the purport of Mrs. Hutchinson's letter to the Speaker? B. 1. Explain the allusions in Laud's and Strafford's letters to the Lady Mora. 2. What was Charles' motive for receiving Panzani as an accredited agent from the Court of Rome ? 3. Lord Clarendon twice altered his intention as to the nature of his History? 4. While condemning Strafford, the House of Commons acted in one respect with a generosity the Crown had never shown in any case of treason? 5. What was the latest concession Charles made before his final appeal to arms? 6. At one time Charles thought to bring the popular leaders into power. Date? An untimely event prevented the execution of this plan? 7. What is known as the Incident? 8. The Duke of Richmond was impeached, Jan. 1642, for words spoken in the Upper House. What were the offensive words? 9. Hallam speaks of an oath taken by every member of the Peers and Commons in 1643 as "the commencement of a system of perjury which lasted for many years"? 10. Why was the Earl of Lincoln in the same year excluded from his seat in the House? II. Whom did Monk recommend to Richard Cromwell as his chief advisers? 12. In April, 1660, the Peers sent a message to the Commons desiring a conference on the great affairs of the Kingdom. What word did the Commons employ in their answer? 13. What does Hallam notice as "the beginning of our national debt"? 1. The ultimate cause of Danby's fall may be deduced from the best action of his life? 15. What is the meaning of a date "before legal memory"? 16. "To speak the truth of Cromwell, whereas many said he undermined Fairfax, it is false." What satisfied Mrs. Hutchinson of the falsity of this assertion? What was Whitelocke's view? 17. When Colonel Hutchinson was summoned after the Restoration to bear witness against the Republican prisoners, three faces among the Judges were particularly odious to him. How does Mrs. Hutchinson describe the three? 18. To what religious party did Fairfax and Lady Fairfax belong, according to Mrs. Hutchinson? 19. By what name does Mrs. Hutchinson speak of Edge-hill fight ? 20. The warrant whereby Colonel Hutchinson stood committed, 1664, was not such that he could legally be imprisoned upon it? Modern Literature. MR. BARLOW. 1. What "known laws of making laws" are mentioned by Hooker ? 2. "For the better inuring of men's minds with the true distinction of laws, and of their several force according to the different kind and quality of our actions, it shall not peradventure be amiss to show in some one example how they all take place”? 3. “The natural measure whereby to judge our doings, is the sentence of reason, determining and setting down what is good to be done." This sentence is threefold? Hooker gives an example of each ? 4. Meaning of the word jump in the sentence-" All should be absolutely good as hitting jump that indivisible point wherein goodness consisteth"? Shakspeare uses the word in the same sense? 5. Into what classes does Dr. Morris divide conjunctions, (a) according to meaning, (b) according to origin? Give examples of each class. 6. Give the etymology of the words-kerchief, parsley, scourge scorch, cost, parrot, halidom, axle-tree, brother, feather. 7. (a) “Truth,” says Bacon, "may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle." Explain. (b) He quotes a saying of Montaigne explaining "why the word of the lie should be such a disgrace"? (e) What is "the most tolerable sort of revenge"? "But then let a man take heed." Of what? (d) Comparing Prosperity and Adversity, Bacon exhorts us to "judge of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye." Explain. (e) "It appeareth in nothing more, that atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man, than by this." What? (f) He speaks of "a new primum mobile, that ravisheth all the spheres of government." What is this? (g) What is his reason for holding that "the first precedent, if it be good, is seldom attained by imitation"? (h) "Let not a man force a habit upon himself with a perpetual continuance, but with some intermission." Why? (i) What objection does he make to the buildings of the Vatican and the Escorial? (j) How do studies serve for "ability"? 8. Write an essay, after the manner of Bacon, on Travel. PROFESSOR DOWDEN. ENGLISH LITERATURE. 1. Give the substance of Mr. Craik's extracts from Chaucer's "House of Fame." 2. Write a notice of English Hexameter verse in the Elizabethan period. 3. Describe the Induction of the Mirror for Magistrates. 4. Exhibit your acquaintance with the following portions of Shakspere's plays: (a) The conversation between King Henry V., John Bates, and Michael Williams, before the battle of Agincourt, and the soliloquy which immediately follows. (b)_The dialogue between Kent and a gentleman in the French camp, near Dover, in which Lear and Cordelia are described. (e) The last scene of "Othello," from the entrance of Montano, Gratiano and Iago, to the end. (d) The conversation between Lady Macduff, her son, and Ross. 5. In what connexion do the following words occur? (a) (b) A. B. "Dost know this water-fly?" "I see this hath a little dash'd your spirits. "The wheel is come full circle: I am here." (c) "O give me thy hand, (d) One writ with me in sour misfortune's book!" "Pray you, undo this button: thank you, sir." (e) (f) 6. (a) "Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow." Can you point out Hamlet's "dozen or sixteen lines"? (b) Write out the cast of "A tedious brief scene of young Pyramus and his love Thisbe," as performed before Duke Theseus. (c) What reference to "Henry VI.” occurs in the Epilogue of "Henry V."? (d) How does Hamlet's strange letter to Ophelia run? (e) What singular opinion did Mrs. Siddons entertain respecting the appearance of the ghost of Banquo? 7. Write notes on the following passages:— (a) (b) (c) (d) "Also King Louis the Tenth, Who was sole heir to the usurper Capet." "The King is a good king; but it must be as it may; he (e) "O these eclipses do portend these divisions! fa, sol, la, mi”. (f) Theseus (of Quince as Prologue). upon points." "This fellow doth not stand ENGLISH COMPOSITION. 1. "Baudelaire has, moreover, the one merit, which is, perhaps more than any other, the mark of the true critic. He judges much more by the form than by the matter of the work submitted to his notice."GEORGE SAINTSBURY. 2. Apart from reference to Baudelaire, discuss the truth of the above. “Gentlemen, believe me, there never was any great advancing art yet, nor can be, without didactic purpose. The leaders of the strong schools are, and must be always, either teachers of theology, or preachers of the moral law."-JOHN RUSKIN. Discuss the truth of this. 3. "What we have to do s to be for ever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions, never acquiescing in a facile orthodoxy of Comte, or of Hegel, or of our own."-W. A. PATER. 4. "Me this unchartered freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance-desires; WORDSWORTH's Ode to Duty. Supply the omitted final words in this sonnet : I. Entre quinze et vingt ans, le cœur tout neuf, qui - - Honteux de laisser voir cette ardeur qui le Grâce aux cachets, fermoirs et scellés qu'on y On serait bien surpris, si l'on pouvait y Translate accurately: II. - Sous l'herbe haute et sèche, où le naia vermeil Et sur l'épais poitrail, chaud comme une fournaise, Mais l'ombre en nappe noire à l'horizon descend; 1. Translate the following: (a) Sous mes yeux ombragés du camail de l'étude, (b) Il faut cingler au nord, |