History.
Senior.

FROM ACCESSION OF HENRY III. TO ACCESSION OF HENRY VII.

1. Give a short account of the career of Edward I. before the death of his father. To what extent did his policy resemble that of Simon de Montfort?

2. Junior History Paper, No. 1.

3. What causes brought about the Sicilian Vespers? What effect had that event on Edward's position with regard to France and Spain?

4. Trace from as early a period as possible down to 1291 the claims of England to the over-lordship of Scotland. Give the descent of the rival claimants to the throne, and the causes and results of Edward's arbitration.

5. How was the method of taxation changed in the reign of Edward I.? What were the objects of the Statutes de Tallagio non concedendo, and "Quia Emptores"?

6. Describe the institutions which the English brought with them from Germany.

7. On what plea did the Barons consider themselves absolved from their oath of fealty to Maud? What was their real objection to her? Why was Stephen accepted as King, and was his accession contrary to the Constitution?

Geography.

EUROPE AND ASIA, PHYSICAL, POLITICAL, AND COMMERCIAL, WITH SOME GENERAL QUESTIONS ON GEOGRAPHY,

1. Describe the mountain systems of Europe, mentioning particularly the ranges which belong to each, with their highest peaks.

2. Account for the formation of lakes. Describe the different kinds, and give examples of each in Europe.

3. Name the countries in which predominate respectively the Celts, Teutons, and Sclavs.

4. Junior Geography Paper, No. 4.

History.

Women.

(a) GENERAL ENGLISH HISTORY; (b) SPECIAL PERIOD, 1715-1815.

(a)

1. Give a short account of the institutions referred to in the terms: mark, parish, shire, shire-reeve, ealdorman, sac and soc, comitatus, witanegemot, trinoda necessitas.

2. Senior Paper, No. 4.

3. Write a complete but brief account of the French wars of Edward III., discussing the legality of his claim to the throne of France.

4. By what right did Richard III. ascend the English throne?. Who supported his claim? Give his descent. Describe the spread of disaffection against his reign, and its results.

5. To what circumstances may the early troubles of Charles I. be attributed? Describe the course of events which brought forth the Petition of Right; give the conditions of the same, and state what was the action of Charles with regard to it.

(b)

6. Describe fully the risings of the Pretender in 1715, and of the Young Pretender in 1745, naming the leaders and engagements in both, and the results of each rising.

7. Contrast the political and religious systems of England and her American Colonies in the time of Walpole. Draw a map of the Colonies. Trace the course of the struggle between the French and English colonists to 1760.

8. "No war has had greater results on the history of the world or brought greater triumphs to England"-spoken of the Seven Years' War. Give an account of the Seven Years' War and its results, with a view to prove the above statement.

9. Give a full account of the public career and character of the elder Pitt. Contrast his policy with that of Walpole; his eloquence with that of Burke.

10. Write a short biography of one of the following: Frederick the Great, Benjamin Franklin, Wolfe.

English Literature and Grammar.

Junior.

CORIOLANUS.

1. What authority did Shakspere consult for this play? Does he observe the same sequence of events? If not, point out any instance of departure from it.

2. Give, as far as possible in the words of Shakspere, a short description of the character of Tullus Aufidius, Sicinius, Brutus, Volumnia, and Menenius.

3. What circumstances led the Romans to besiege Corioli? Who were the commanders entrusted with the execution of it? Describe the siege and the conduct of Marcius after it.

4. Explain the allusions in:

(i) "You would be another Penelope . . . in Ulysses absence."

(v)

"To see inherited my very wishes."

"silenced their pleaders, and

Dispropertied their freedoms.”

(vi) "I had rather be their servant in my way Than sway with them in theirs."

6. Paraphrase Act II., Sc. iv., 42—60.

7. Give the rules for the formation of the plurals of nouns, with two examples of each.

8. Distinguish between a prefix and an affix. Give the Saxon prefixes with their meanings.

9. Analyse:

"And it is rumoured,

Cominius, Marcius your old enemy,
Who is of Rome worse hated than of you,
And Titus Lartius, a most valiant Roman,
These three lead on this preparation
Whither 'tis bent."

English Literature.

1. Junior Paper, No. 1.

Senior.

CORIOLANUS.

2. Contrast the characters of Volumnia and Vergilia, and sketch that of Menenius Agrippa.

3. How did the Plebeians account for Marcius taking command under Cominius? Does a study of his character and of his subsequent career tend to prove their opinion to have been probably correct?

4. Give the derivation of the following words: canon, doit, god-den, bisson, fidiused, ushers.

5. Explain any grammatical peculiarities in:

(i) "To make it brief wars."

(ii) "In what enormity is Marcius poor in."

(iii) "If they shall encounter such ridiculous subjects as you are." (iv) "But have not spoke as yet."

(ii) "Death, that dark spirit, in 's nervy arm doth lie;
Which, being advanced, declines, and then men die.”
"I have lived

(iii)

To see inherited my very wishes
And the buildings of my fancy."

English Literature.

Women.

(a) CORIOLANUS; (b) POPE'S SATIRES AND EPISTLES; (c) BURKE, TWO SPEECHES ON THE PRESENT DISCONTENT.

Two Subjects only to be taken.

(a)

1. Point out any peculiarities of style which mark the play, giving examples of the same from Acts I. and II., and stating the evidence which they bear as to date of composition. Point out any anachronisms in Acts I. and II.

2. Explain and comment upon any grammatical peculiarities in the following:

(i) "He did it to please his mother and to be partly proud." "I would wish me only he."

(ii)

(iii) "To take in many towns ere almost Rome

Should know we were afoot."

(iv) "Have you chose this man?"

(v) "In what enormity is Marcius poor in."

(vi) "Sealing his present bearing with his past."

3. Give examples from Acts I. and II. of Shakespere's use of:

(i) Words with a different accent to their present.

(ii) Transposition of adverbs.

(iii) Words used literally that are only employed now metaphorically.

(iv) Ellipses in conjunctional sentences.

(v) Who for whom.

4. Contrast the characters of Volumnia and Vergilia. From what Latin writer does Shakespere differ in assigning these names to the mother and wife of Coriolanus respectively? Sketch the character of Menenius Agrippa.

5. Paraphrase Act. II., Scene iv., 42-60.

(b)

6. "Pope belongs to the classical school as opposed to the romantic, to that in which a French, rather than to that in which