languages. Name (with subdivisions where possible) the chief families at present ascertained in this class. 2. Shew in some synoptic form the relations to one another of all the various languages or dialects (dead or living) which are included in the terms (a) Semitic family, (b) Italic branch, (c) Hellenic branch, respectively. Add the earliest date from which each subdivision is known to us. 3. Sketch briefly the history of the science of language down to the discovery of Sanskrit, emphasising the radical errors. 4. Write down the hypothetical I.-E. alphabet, and tabulate its sounds according to the recognised divisions of place and manner of articulation. 5. Discuss the inherent necessity that a language should change phonetically, and shew clearly the process of dialectical disintegration in point of sound. What principles of sound-change are of general application? 6. Shew how new material appears in each of the related languages of a given family. 7. Write a brief essay on the part played by analogy in the evolution of language. 8. State precisely the chief rules for a correct etymology. 9. Take the hypothetical I.-E. sentence ulqos ouins edeti, and point out the various changes undergone by the words in their history in Greek, Latin, French, and English. COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY. THIRD YEAR. Professor Tucker. 1. Give a clear account of the structural method which distinguishes the Agglutinative class of languages. Name the chief families at present ascer tained in this class. 2. Shew in some synoptic form the relations to each other of the various languages or dialects (dead or living) which are included in the terms (a) Italic branch, (b) Hellenic branch, (c) Teutonic branch. 3. Explain and illustrate the phenomena of Ablaut, and shew how Ablaut affects the declension of nouns. 4. Deal fully with the history of the sonant nasals and liquids as they pass into Greek and Latin. Give examples in all instances. 5. Account for the correspondence of the vowels (and, where they differ, the consonants) in novus, denuo, véos; iecur, rap; facio, conficio, confectus, ἔθηκα; Ζεύς, Διός, Iuppiter; somnus, ὕπνος; anserem, χῆνα. 6. Treat fully of the history of the velar gutturals in Greek and Latin. 7. Give a list of the chief noun stem-suffixes containing n and r, with instances of their appearance. 8. Decline an o-noun and an es-noun in I.-E.; give the Greek and Latin declensions of the same or similar words, and comment on any variations. 9. Give the primary person-endings active and passive of an I.-E. verb, and shew how far they are kept to in Greek and Latin. ENGLISH.-PART I. The Board of Examiners. 1. At what various periods have words of Latin origin come into the English language, and under what influences? Give instances. 2. What do you know about the following languages-Frisian, Gothic, Manx, Provençal, Roumansch, Sanscrit ? 3. Trace the origin of the following words:Admiral, assassin, attorney, evangelist, fetish, indigo, muslin, porcelain, rice, zero. 4. What are the chief characteristics of Landor's verse? 5. (a) What is the importance of the gift and song of the Hours in Agamemnon and Iphigeneia? (b) How is chivalry displayed in Tancredi and Constantia? 6. Explain and comment on (a) Others of our kings have been captive; but less ignominiously, (Said by Jeanne d'Arc.) (b) The tribune is the discoverer! the centurion is the scout.-Marius. (c) At that word, that sad word, joy. (d) Take up manfully the quarter staff of logic. 7. Comment on (a) Thou wert best look to it. (b) I can tell who should down. (c) Motley's the only wear. (d) A gallant curtle-axe upon my thigh. (e) A dial from his poke. 8. Compare and contrast Touchstone and Jaques. 9. Comment fully on the following stanza : In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint; In urns, and altars round, A drear and dying sound Affrights quaint; the Flamens at their service And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar power forgoes his wonted: seat. 10. Explain the following passages : The great Emathian conqueror. Thrice-great Hermes. The Cynosure of neighbouring eyes. 11. Write a short note on each of the following:- The glory of the Spanish pencil. Auto da fe. Empecinado. Bathos. 12. What is your own estimate of Macaulay's style? ENGLISH.-PART II. The Board of Examiners. 1. Write an Essay on "Tennyson's Idylls, improved or spoilt by the Allegory?" 2. Write a full note on each of the following passages: (a) Voice in the rich dawn of an ampler dayFar-sighted summoner of War and Waste To fruitful strifes and rivalries of peace. (b) A field of charlock in the sudden sun |