HINTS TO CANDIDATES.

THE law demands that you should pass a satisfactory examination before you can be commissioned to teach.

Justice and your own conscience coincide with the demands of the law.

You should never willingly engage to teach a branch in which you are deficient. Never ask an examiner to license you to teach

a branch which you have never thoroughly mastered.

With the aid of the Complete Examiner you have the means before you of determining when and in what you will be examined.

By being thorough and rigid in questioning yourself by the use of this work, you may not only save the examiner the painful emotions in rejecting you, but also your own mortification from the disgrace of your failure.

Observe the remarks at the head of each chapter. cially thorough in the first few chapters.

Be espe

There may be many questions that you can answer mentally, as fast as you can read them.

It would be safer and more beneficial to you to write out the answers to the balance of the questions, in your own words, if you choose.

Answer every question, if possible, without turning to any reference in the text-books. Be as calm, as self-possessed, and as much at case, during your public examination, as in your own

room.

You may be able, in many places, to pass a satisfactory