α 8. Transpose a into the scale of D (Re). 8. Transpose the following into the key of D (Re). Key B flat. s,fe. s,f: ma. d la d' . s : ta 1 9. Write a in time of four quavers in a measure. α m 9. Write a scale (1) in two-pulse measure, (2) in three-pulse measure, and (3) in four-pulse measure. MALE AND FEMALE CANDIDATES.-FIRST AND SECOND YEARS. DICTATION AND PENMANSHIP. TWENTY MINUTES allowed for these Exercises. Candidates are not to paint their letters in the Copysetting Exercise, but to take care that the copy is clean and without erasures. Omissions and erasures in the Dictation Exercise will be counted as mistakes. The words must not be divided between two lines. Write in large hand, as a specimen of Penmanship, the word Insuperable. Write in small hand, as a specimen of Penmanship, the sentence : "Revenge is a kind of wild justice." DICTATION. Write the passage dictated to you by the Examiner. FOR MALE CANDIDATES. The characteristic result of this Monarch's policy | was the consolidation of western society. His imperial schemes give place to a growing feudalism, | in which independent chieftains sub-divide the imperial domains, | forming political organizations | with some degree of central activity, and replacing the shapeless chaos of previous centuries. In a life recklessly active he reformed the coinage, | collected libraries, | interfered in religious controversies, attempted the magnificent enterprise of uniting the Rhine and the Danube, and meditated the task of moulding the discordant Codes | of Roman and barbarian laws | into an uniform system, |