(a) Prose-Crown of Wild Lilies, Ruskin. (Authorized Edition). Copp, Clark Co. (b) Poetical-Coleridge: The Ancient Mariner. Wordsworth: Michael, Influence of Natural Objects, Nutting, Expostulation and Reply, The Tables Turned, The Solitary Reaper, Ode to Duty, Elegiac Stanzas, To Rev. Dr. Wordsworth, "She was a Phantom of Delight," To the Cuckoo, The Green Linnet, "Bright flower whose home," To a Skylark, "Ethereal Minstrel," Reverie of Poor Susan, To my Sister, "Three years she grew," September 1819, Upon the Same Occasion. The following twelve sonnets: "Two voices are there," "Scorn not the Sonnet," "A flock of sheep that leisurely,” "Earth hath not anything," "It is not to be thought of," "Fair star of evening," "O Friend! I know not," "Milton! thou shouldst," "When I have borne in memory," "Brook! whose society," "Tax not the saint," ፡፡ They dreamt not of a perishable home." Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice. The texts of the Globe, Temple and Cambridge editions of Shakespeare shall be the standard. The following books are recommended to be read in connection with the literature: Life of Wordsworth, Myers. English Men of Letters, MacMillan. Life of Ruskin, Mrs. Meynell. Modern English Writers. Blackwood. NOTE.-Prose Literature for 1903, 1905, etc.: Crown of Wild Olives. Prose Literature for 1904, 1906, etc.: Sesame and Lilies. HISTORY. 1. General History:-Myers, Ginn & Co. MATHEMATICS. 1. Algebra: Elementary rules; easy factoring; highest common measure; lowest common multiple; square root; fractions; simple equations of one, two and three unknown quantities; indices; surds; easy quadratic equations of one and two unknown quantities. Text Book.-C. Smith's Elementary Algebra. Supplementary for schools requiring additional exercises: Robertson & Birchard's High School Algebra. 2. Euclid:-Books I, II, III. Euclid's definitions will be required, and no axioms or postulates except Euclid's may be assumed, unless in the case of the 12th axiom. The actual proof of propositions, as given in Euclid, will not be required, but no proof of any proposition occurring in Euclid will be admitted, in which use is made of any proposition, which, in Euclid's order, occurs subsequently. The enunciations will be set according to Euclid. Abbreviations for words may be used, but not the algebraical symbols and, or indices. (The definitions, axioms, postulates, enunciations as required will be found in Todhunter's Euclid). SCIENCE. 1. Physics: High School Physical Science, Part I. Apparatus for second class physics: Metre stick; nest of beakers; track and balls, fig. 30; tuning fork; two pith ball pendulums; vulcanite rod; bar magnet, length 6 inches; magnetic needle on stand; track and car, fig. 37; spring balance; glass disk, with hook attached at centre, fig. 55; tubes A and B, fig. 58; pipette, marked 15 c.c.; tube, fig. 62; tube of large bore with bottom edges ground, fig. 65; Archimedes' principle; air pump, receiver and globe for weighing air; Magdeburg hemispheres, fig. 75; guinea and feather tube, fig. 76; baroscope, fig. 77; barometer tube, fig. 79; Marriott' law tube, fig. 80; two wide-mouth Florence flasks, fitted with indiarubber stoppers and glass tube, with stop cock, figs. 86 and 87; tall glass jar, fig. 88; universal support, fig. 89; apparatus complete, fig. 92; physical balance, fig. 98; set of metric weights; specific gravity bottle, eap. 100 c.c.; prism of wood, fig. 103; hydrometer, for light and heavy liquids, fig. 105; tube, fig. 106; set of 4 Bunsen cells, quart size, fig. 108; ball and ring of brass, fig. 109; compound bar; chemical thermometer; Lesslie's Differential Thermometer, fig. 117; bulb tube for Charles' Law, fig. 119; Liebig's Condenser, fig. 125; cryophorus, fig. 126; Tyndall's apparatus, fig. 128; calorimeter, fig. 129; conductometer, 132; convection in gases, fig. 139; Lesslie's cubes, fig. 144; ball of iron with hook, fig. 145; 2 spirit lamps; pair forceps; lb. soft glass tubing of different sizes for bending; 2 Thistle tubes; 1 sq. foot. fine sheet rubber; 1 sq. ft. wire gauge; 2 sheets mica; and 1 radiometer. NOTE.-Thirty per cent. of the marks assigned to the subject will be given for the practical test. 2. Chemistry: High School Chemistry. CHEMISTRY.-SECOND CLASS. Each pupil should be provided with the apparatus given below. Where great economy must be exercised two pupils may use the same set: 2 4 1 alcohol lamp; 1 triangular file and 1 round file; 6 test tubes 4 by 1, 2 soft rubber corks for test tubes; 1 test tube brush; 1 wooden t.t. holder; 2 Florence flasks, with perforated rubber cork; 1 piece rubber tubing, 18 inches long, diam.; 1 porcelain evaporating dish; 1 glass stirring rod; 1 pneumatic trough; 4 reagent bottles (250 c.c.) HCl, HNO3, H2 SO, and NH, OH; 1 mortar and pestle; 1 nest beakers; 1 glass funnel; 1 graduate, 100 c.c.; 1 stoppered glass 1etort, cap. 4 ozs. ; 2 wash bottles fitted with rubber stoppers and tubes; 2 chloride calcium tubes, one bulb, straight, 6 inches; 1 package filter paper (circular); 1 ignition tube, one bulb, 5 inches; 1 Woulff bottle, 2 necks, cap. 1 pint. The school should also have:-Endiometer; 2 gas bags; an assortment of soft rubber corks, perforated; an assortment of glass and rubber tubing and test tubes. Chemicals. Estimate for a class of ten: Acid, hydrochloric, 4 lbs. ; acid, nitric, 2 lbs.; acid, sulphuric, 4 lbs.; alcohol, pint; methylated spirits, 2 quarts; platinum wire, 2 grammes; platinum foil, ; mg. wire or ribbon, 10 feet; iron filings, 2 ozs.; copper filings, 2 ozs.; zinc clippings, 1 lb.; powdered sulphur, 2 ozs.; roll sulphur, 1 stick; table salt, 2 lbs. ; ammonic chloride, 1 lb.; charcoal, a few pieces; ammonia, 1⁄2 lb. ; ammonium nitrate, 2 ozs. ; ammonium sulphate, 2 ozs.; chloroform, sulp.-ether and carbonbisulphate, small quantities; iodine, oz.; potassic iodide, oz. ; potassic nitrate, lb. ; alum, 2 ozs.; washing soda, 1 lb. ; blue vitriol, lb.; bicarb of soda, 1 lb.; chlorate of potassium, 1 lb.; oxalic acid, 1 oz.; acetate of lead, 1 oz. ; oxide of mercury, oz.; sulphate of iron, 4 ozs. ; ferrocyanide of potash, oz.; sulphide of iron, 2 ozs. ; nitrate of silver, oz.; marble chips, 2 lbs. ; copper oxide, lb. ; quicklime, 1 lb.; manganese dioxide, lb.; red oxide of lead, 2 ozs. ; permanganate of potash, oz.; mercury, 2 ozs.; sodium, 1 oz. ; potassium, 1 oz.; caustic soda, 1 bottle; caustic potash, 1 bottle; pyrogallic acid, 2 ozs.; starch, 1 lb.; barium dioxide, 2 ozs.; calcium chloride, 1 lb.; turpentine, small quantity; acetate of sodium, 2 ozs. ; cal. carbide, 2 ozs.; phosphorus, 1 stick; lb. bichromate of potash, and oz. corrosive sublimate. The above should be placed in properly stoppered, wide mouth bottles, and should be carefully labelled. NOTE. Thirty per cent. of the marks assigned to the subject will be given for the practical test. 3. Geography:-Text Book, Eclectic Physical Geography.American Book Co. FIRST CLASS. ENGLISH. 1. Writing and Spelling:-On all papers. 2. Rhetoric and Prose Literature:-(One paper). (a) The study as literature of selected prose authors. (b) The investigation of rhetorical principles based on Barrett Wendell's English Composition. Texts for 1903.-The Essays contained in Brewster's "Studies in Structure and Style." Barrett Wendell's English Composition. 3. Composition:-(One paper). The writing of an essay on one of a number of subjects, some of which shall be based on the selections prescribed for prose literature. 4. Poet. Literature:-(Two papers). (a) Shakespeare, Hamlet. The texts of the Globe, Temple and Cambridge editions of Shakespeare shall be the standard. (b) Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II. Pope, The Essay on Man. NOTE. The following books are recommended to be read in connection with the Poetical Literature: Life of Milton.-Patterson, English Men of Letters (MacM.) 5. History of English Literature:-(One paper). Halleck's History of English Literature. (American Book Co.) MATHEMATICS. 1. Algebra:-The Algebra prescribed for the second class examination, together with cube root, quadratic equations, ratio, proportion, variations, and the progressions. (C. Smith's Elementary Algebra, inclusive of the whole of Chapter 28). 2. Euclid:-Definitions and books I, II, III, IV, definitions of book V; book VI, propositions 1, 2, 3, A, 4, 33. Euclid's definitions will be required, and no axioms and postulates but Euclid's may be assumed, except in the case of the 12th axiom. The actual proof of propositions as given in Euclid will not be required, but no proof of any proposition occurring in Euclid will be admitted, in which use is made of any proposition, which in Euclid's order occurs subsequently. The enunciations will be set according to Euclid. Abbreviations for words may be used, but not the algebraical + and or indices. (The definitions, axioms, postulates, enunciations as required will be found in Todhunter's Euclid.) 3. Trigonometry:-Up to and including the solution of plane triangles-Hamblin Smith's Trigonometry. SCIENCE. 1. Chemistry:-Elements of Inorganic Chemistry. Remsen's Briefer Course. Chemical Theory for Beginners, Dobbin & Walker. (MacMillan). NOTE. A practical as well as theoretical knowledge of the subject is required. Thirty per cent. of the marks assigned to the subject will be given for the practical test. 2. Physics: High School Physical Science, Part II. NOTE. -Thirty per cent. of the marks assigned to the subject will be given for the practical test. HISTORY. 1. English-Green's Short History of the English People, Chapter 3; Sections 4, 5, 6, of Chapter 6; Chapters 7, 8, 9 and 10. Mediaeval and Modern History:-Text Book, Medieval and Modern History, Part II.-Myers, Ginn & Co. Holders of Second Class Certificates, actually employed in teaching, who have had five years successful experience, may be permitted to take the First Class examination in two parts: Part 1.-Mathematics and History. Part 2.-English and Science. MARKS REQUIRED TO PASS. Candidates must obtain at least 50 per cent. of the aggregate marks, and 34 per cent. on each subject, except in the case of oral reading, where 60 per cent. is required. |