10. Decline an original I.-E. noun in ā, and also one with s-stem. Place in parallel columns the corresponding Greek and Latin cases, shewing which are the true phonetic equivalents, and accounting for those which are not. 11. Take the following words, split them up into their several elements, and give the original form (and, if possible, original function) of each element:ἀνδρί, velociter, concussorum, ἀΐστου, αἰές, εἵματος, seruntur, ovoi, pépeis, viris, Binpi, quadragesimus, πέδοι. 12. Conjugate the present and imperfect of es-mai. ENGLISH.-PART I. The Board of Examiners. 1. What were the earliest words to come into English from Latin? words. Give classes of words as well as 2. Give the origin of the following words:-Abbot, balcony, bishop, calico, marquis, plunder, quarto, satin, skipper, tobacco. 3. Comment on the female characters in Richard II. 4. Write notes on the following passages. From whose mouth does each come, and under what circumstances?— (a) Since we cannot atone you, we shall see Justice design the victor's chivalry. (b) Landlord of England art thou now, not king: Thy state of law is bond-slave to the law. (c) An if my word be sterling yet in England. (d) Groom.-Hail, royal prince. King Richard. -Thanks, noble peer; The cheapest of us is ten groats too dear. 5. From what poems are the following taken? Explain each: (a) Mery London, my most kindly nurse. (b) Ring out, ye crystall sphears. (c) All in a robe of darkest grain. (d) As long as Atalantis shall be read, Or the small pillow grace a Lady's bed. (e) Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. (f) She-wolf of France with unrelenting fangs.. 6. Who were the following:-Cynthia, Flamens, Cambuscan, Camus, Augusta, Flecknoe, Timotheus, The bold Bavarian, Taliessin. 7. What is the story of the origin of the Rape of the Lock? 8. What is meant by a Periodic Sentence? Give illustrations. 9. What was Addison's purpose in writing the Spectator? 10. What is the meaning of the following from the Spectator: (a) A setting-dog that he has made himself. (b) Famous for taking the law of everybody. (e) Inflamed the bills of mortality. 11. “I wish I were as sure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything." Illustrate this remark from your knowledge of the Third Chapter of the History. 12. Comment on the following passages from Macaulay : (a) Drew Lieutenant Bowling and Commodore Trunnion. (b) The ancestors of Childers and Eclipse. (c) Prideaux was in the Close of Norwich. (d) The genius of Anstey and of Smollett, of Frances Burney and of Jane Austen, has made classic ground. (e) Dryden, with more zeal than knowledge, joined his voice to the general acclamation, and foretold things which neither he nor anybody else understood. ENGLISH.-PART II. The Board of Examiners. 1. What are the distinguishing marks of the Classical School in English Literature? 2. Write an account of Cowper and of Shelley. 3. What do you know about the following books :Alton Locke, The Biglow Papers, Esmond, Life of Sterling, Lyrical Ballads, The Seven Lamps of Architecture? 4. What is the lesson of King Lear? 5. Whose prose style do you admire most? State your reasons. 6. Comment on the following passages:— (a) The setting may occasionally be antiquated, and require now and then to be renewed, as in the case of Chaucer.-W. IRVING. (b) I am all over sophisticated with humours, fancies, craving hourly sympathy.-CHARLES LAMB. (c) Things refuse to be mismanaged long.EMERSON. (d) Culture is the eternal opponent of two things which are the signal marks of Jacobinism.-M. ARNOLD. (e) I am a thoroughly anti-preRaphaelite benighted pagan heathen in taste, and intend some day to get up a Cinque-cento Club.-C. KINGSLEY. (f) Alabamas are not wishes.-J. R. LOWELL. 7. Write out a short outline of each of the following poems:-My Last Duchess, The Lost Leader, Dora, The Talking Oak. 8. Explain the following lines, referring each to the poem from which it is taken : This low-pulsed forthright craftsman's hand In they broke those "people of importance." The unlit lamp and the ungirt loin. The riddle of the painful earth. Ere days that deal in ana swarmedst. 9. Give the substance of one of the three following Essays by Bacon :-Of Marriage, of Great Place, of Usury. 10. Write an Essay on "Ruskin's Sesame and Lilies." FRENCH. The Board of Examiners. 1. Translate into French A DISEASE-DESTROYING TREE.-M. Gimbert, who has been long engaged in collecting evidence concerning the Australian tree "Eucalyptus globulus," the growth of which is surprisingly rapid, attaining besides gigantic dimensions, has addressed an interesting communication to the Academy of Sciences. This plant, it now appears, possesses an extraordinary power of |