APPENDIX.

BURSARY COMPETITION AND
PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION PAPERS
IN ARTS AND SCIENCE.

SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1896.

ENGLISH (FIRST PAPER).

(Five, and not more than five, questions are to be answered. Questions 1, 2, and 6 must be answered by all.)

1. Write an essay, from two to three pages long, on one of the following subjects:

(a) The Celtic (i.e., Welsh and Highland) character as portrayed by Shakespeare and Scott.

(b) Moral courage.

(c) The character and reign of Queen Elizabeth.
(d) The pleasures and pains of athletics.

2. Paraphrase

Great honours are great burdens, but on whom
They're cast with envy, he doth bear two loads,
His cares must still be double to his joys

In any dignity; where if he err,

He finds no pardon; and for doing well

A most small praise, and that wrung out by force.
I speak thus, Romans, knowing what the weight
Of the high charge you have trusted to me is;

Not that thereby I would with art decline
The good or greatness of your benefit;
For I ascribe it to your singular grace,
And vow to owe it to no title else,

Except the gods, that Cicero is your consul.

I have no urns, no dusty monuments,

No broken images of ancestors;

But for myself I have prepared this strength.

3. Give a general analysis of the following passage, indicating clearly the connection between the clauses: parse the words in italics :

Yet should I try, the uncontrolled worth

Of this pure cause would kindle my rapt spirits

To such a flame of sacred vehemence,

That dumb things would be moved to sympathise,

And the brute Earth would lend her nerves and shake,

Till all thy magic structures, reared so high,

Were shattered into heaps o'er thy false head.

4. Give the derivation and original meaning of eight of the following words: assist, while, nostril, economy, chivalry, both, spinster, minstrel, brimstone, rhyme.

5. In what different ways are the plural and the possessive case of nouns respectively indicated in modern English? What is peculiar about the following forms: kine, riches, its, foremost, myself?

6. Correct or improve the following sentences, giving reasons for the changes that you make :

(a) One friend she had who would have rejoiced to have been of the least assistance to her.

(b) I will not state them in my own language, but in the language of one, the poetical charm of whose mind and style have perhaps a little overclouded his reputation as a political philosopher.

(c) Early in the following year the Fitzgeralds bought a place in the country, where they resided a good deal for the future.

(d) The only regret now left us is that the text of the Old Testament has not been given in full, as was so excellently done by Mr Tischendorf in the case of the New.

ENGLISH-SECOND PAPER (OLD MODEL).

(Not more than eight questions to be answered. Of these,
two are to be taken from each section.)

SECTION A.

1. Sketch the life and enumerate the principal works of Chaucer, or Shakespeare, or Milton, or Burns. Describe briefly one work.

2. Give some account of one of the following works: 'The King's Quair,' 'Edward II.,' 'Every Man in His Humour,' 'The Rape of the Lock,' 'Rokeby,' 'The Earthly Paradise.'

3. Give some account of two of the following_characters: Romeo, Sir John Falstaff, Beatrice, Tom Jones, Prometheus, Balfour of Burley, Becky Sharp, Romola.

4. Give a brief account of the rise of the Novel in England, and trace its History to Dickens. Mention the principal writers and their works.

SECTION B.

5. What are the most striking features in the characters of Henry V., Simon Glover, and the Duke of Rothsay?

6. Give as full an account as you can of the scene in 'Henry V.,' in which Henry consults the Archbishop of Canterbury as to his claim to the throne of France, and replies to the Dauphin's message.

7. Describe fully the combat between the Highland clans in 'The Fair Maid of Perth.'

8. Give the exact meaning of the following expressions :66 No sinister nor no awkward claim."

(c)

"Pray thee, corporal, stay: the knocks are too hot; and for mine own part I have not a case of lives; the humour of it is too hot, that is the very plain song of it."

(d) "Ring the bells backward. Cry and spare not, Saint Johnston's hunt is up."

(e) "The old Kempe of Kinfauns."

"I have forgotten my tallies, and will return in the skimming of a bowie."

SECTION C.

9. Mention the chief instances during the fifteenth century of friendly intercourse (in peace or war) between France and Scotland.

10. Write brief notes on five of the following: Battle of Brunanburh, Battle of Tinchebrai, Mise of Lewis, Ragman Roll, Black Death, the several Sieges of Roxburgh, Rising in the North, Battle of Sauchieburn, Præmunire, Danelagh.

11. Write brief notes on five of the following: Edgar Atheling, William the Lion, the Earl of Kildare, Simon de Montfort, Bishop

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Grosseteste, John of Gaunt, Duke Robert of Albany, the Protector Somerset, Dunstan, Sir Thomas More.

12. Write a short history of Henry Beauclerc.

SECTION D.

13. From what countries does great Britain chiefly import (a) gold; (b) silver; (c) copper; (d) tin; (e) iron?

14. Describe South and Central Africa from the Cameroons and Mombassa to the Cape, sketching the political divisions, and mentioning the chief towns and natural features of each.

15. Write notes on ten of the following, specifying the positions of those you select the Karun River, Gobi, Assuncion, South Georgia, Bucharest, Easter Island, Van, Diego Suarez, Limoges, Lemberg, Saragossa, Ravenna, Lake Baikal, the Yellowstone.

16. Enumerate in order as they come the chief ports, rivers, and headlands of South America, beginning at the Orinoco, and going round by Cape Horn to the Isthmus of Panama.

ENGLISH-SECOND PAPER (NEW MODEL).

(Eight, and not more than eight, questions are to be attempted. Of these, three must be taken from Section A, three from Section B, and two from Section C.

SECTION A.

1. (a) Give some account of one of the following works: "The King's Quair,' 'Edward II.,' 'Every Man in his Humour,' 'The Rape of the Lock,' 'Rokeby,' 'Lothair,' 'The Earthly Paradise,' 'Silas Marner.'

Or,

(b) Give some account of two of the following characters: Romeo, Sir John Falstaff, Beatrice, Tom Jones, Prometheus, Balfour of Burley, Becky Sharp, Romola.

2. What are the most striking features in the characters of Henry V., Simon Glover, and the Duke of Rothsay?

3. Give as full an account as you can of the scene in 'Henry V.,' in which Henry consults the Archbishop of Canterbury as to his claim to the throne of France, and replies to the Dauphin's

message.

4. Describe fully the combat between the Highland clans in 'The Fair Maid of Perth.'