Afghan War, The INDEX. 321, 354 Answers to Correspondents 62, 96, 128, 160, 192, 224, 288, 320, 352, 380 Answers to Queries 311, 346, 375 Answers to Scholarship Questions Bacon's Essays . Decimals, Proof of Rules 335 334 49 Deductions 56, 120, 124, 126, 153, 154, 155, 188, 217, 250, 285, 314, 346 Descent of Queen Victoria. Duchies Palatine 48 263 67 313 120 the Writings of Milton 270 67 334 324 French 15, 47, 78, 105, 174, 203, 235, 298, 331, 363 Friends Greece, Boundary of . 38, 71, 100, I 46, 77, 104, 140, 173, 202, 234, 297, 330, 3 45, 285, 2 Model Answers to First Year Certificate Questions 205, 236, 270, 300, 33 3 2 I 31 ΙΟ 12 Parsing and Analysis 40, 72, 102, 136, 168, 199, 230, 233, 267, 293, 328 Pupil Teachers' Examination Papers 19, 85, 111, 144, 178, 208, 241, 277 302, 338, 36 259 . 5, 36, 69, 99, 133, 165, 196, 228, 264, 290, 326, 359 TO OUR READERS. 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