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I. QUESTIONS set to King's scholars at the close of their course.

PENMANSHIP.

Half an hour allowed for this paper.

Mr. A. J. McELWAINE, Senior Inspector.
Mr. H. WORSLEY, District Inspector.

Write the following passages:

(a.) As a headline in large hand.

(b.) As a headline in small hand.

(c.) (d.) and (e.) In a neat legible hand.

(a.) Archæology.

(b.) Sweet are the uses of adversity.
(c.) When thro' life unblest we rove,
Losing all that made life dear,
Should some notes we used to love,
In days of boyhood, meet our ear.
Oh! how welcome breathes the strain !
Wakening thoughts that long have slept;
Kindling former smiles again

In faded eyes that long have wept.

MOORE.

(d.) Alfred the Great was the noblest, as he was the most complete embodiment of all that is great, all that is lovable, in the English temper. He said of himself: "I have desired to live worthily while I lived, and after my life to leave to the men that should be after me my remembrance in good works." d.

(e.)

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SPELLING AND PUNCTUATION.

PASSAGE FOR DICTATION.

N.B.-The Superintendent, when reading this passage, will bear in mind that, as the candidate is expected to punctuate it properly, the various stops should not be named.

Mr. KELLY, Senior Inspector.

Mr. SEMPLE, District Inspector.

If we make an attempt to apply these thoughts to any particular case, the following national differences discover themselves. The sensibility to honour is, in the Frenchman,

Spelling and vanity; in the Spaniard arrogance; in the Englishman pride; Punctuation. in the German haughtiness; and in the Dutchman pomposity. These expressions may seem at first sight to be equipollent; but they denote very remarkable differences. Vanity courts approbation, is inconstant and changeable, but its outward demeanour is courteous. The arrogant man is bloated with a false and pleasurable conceit of himself, which he takes little trouble to support by the approbation of others; his deportment is stiff and unbending. Pride is, strictly speaking, nothing more than a greater consciousness of one's own merits; and this consciousness may often be very justly founded; the deportment of the proud man towards others is cold and expressive of indifference. The haughty man is a proud man, that is, at the same time a vain one. The approbation, however, which he solicits from others, must be shown in testimonies of respect. Therefore it is that he would willingly glitter with titles genealogies and external pageantry. The characteristic of the haughty man's demeanour in company is ceremoniousness. The pompous man is he who expresses his self-conceit by clear marks of contempt for others. The characteristic of his behaviour is coarseness. This wretched temper is of all the furthest removed from polished taste, because obviously and unequivocally stupid for assuredly it is no rational means of gratifying the passion for honour to challenge everybody about one by undisguised contempt to hatred and caustic ridicule.

GRAMMAR.

Two hours allowed for this paper.

N.B. In addition to the questions in Parsing and Analysis, namely, Nos. 1 and 2, which are compulsory, only three questions are to be attempted. The Examiner will read only the Parsing and Analysis and the first three other answers left uncancelled. questions in this paper are all of equal value.

Mr. PEDLOW, Senior Inspector.

Mr. MCNEILL, District Inspector.

1. Parse the words in italics in :

O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven;
It hath the primal curse upon't,

A brother's murder. Pray can I not,
Though inclination be as sharp as will;
My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent;
And, like a man to double business bound,
I stand in pause where I shall first begin,
And both neglect. What if this cursed hand
Were thicker than itself with brother's blood,
Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens
To wash it white as snow?

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2. Analyse :

Within a window'd niche of that high hall

Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain; he did hear
That sound the first amid the festival,

And caught its tone with Death's prophetic ear;
And when they smiled because he deem'd it near,
His heart more truly knew that peal too well.

3. Show that the following words are hybrids :cottage, perhaps, acuteness, automobile, eatable, educationist.

4. Compare the adjectives of which farther and further are comparative degrees. Distinguish between the meanings of these two words, and account for the th in farther.

5. Explain clearly in each case the degeneration in meaning of the following words:

animosity, villain, silly, officious, retaliate, insolent.

6. Draw up half a dozen rules which would prevent the most common grammatical mistakes in composition and letterwriting.

7. Give the main differences, both in prose and poetry, between old English or Anglo-Saxon (449-1100) and modern English.

8. What adjectives have we answering to the following nouns?

horse, cat, alms, parish, church, bishop.

9. Give an example (marking the accented syllables) of each of the following measures:

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Construct six sentences showing how the meaning varies in each case with the change of preposition.

ENGLISH COMPOSITION.

Two hours allowed for this subject.

N.B.-Only one subject to be selected.

Mr. J. P. DALTON, Senior Inspector.
Mr. R. W. HUGHES, District Inspector.

SUBJECT OF ESSAY.

(a.) Worry;

O'r,

(b.) Decision of character;

Or,

(c.) The Oracles will Philippise as long as Philip is the

master."

ENGLISH LITERATURE.

Two hours allowed for this paper.

N.B.-Only five questions to be attempted, one at least from each Section, A, B, C. The Examiner will read only the first five answers left uncancelled. The questions in this paper are all of equal value.

Dr. BEATTY, Senior Inspector.

Mr. MACMAHON, District Inspector.

SECTION A.

1. Tell all you know of the life and works of Spenser after 1590; and give a description of the "Faerie Queen."

2. Give an account of Milton's sonnets.

3. How would you classify Shakespeare's plays so as to show the changes in his style and subjects as he advanced in years?

SECTION B.

4. How does Milton treat of "Fame," mortal and immortal?

5. Quote the lines in which Milton describes his comradeship with Lycidas.

6. Name the flowers that are to be laid on Lycid's hearse, and quote the descriptive epithets which you consider the most beautiful.

SECTION C.

7. Trace the growth of the suspicion that Macbeth murdered Duncan; and describe his attempts, in act and speech, to avert it.

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