APPENDIX.

BURSARY COMPETITION AND
PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION PAPERS
IN ARTS AND SCIENCE,

1900-1901.

ENGLISH-FIRST PAPER.

SATURDAY, 29TH SEPTEMBER 1900, 9 to 11 A.M.

(Five, and not more than five, questions are to be answered. Questions 1, 2, and 6 must be answered by all.

1. Write an essay, of from two to three pages long, on one of the following subjects:

(1) If you wished to emigrate, what country would you
choose, and why?

(2) Progress in the Nineteenth Century.
(3) Thackeray as a Satirist and Teacher.

2. Paraphrase:—

He above the rest

In shape and gesture proudly eminent

Stood like a tow'r; his form had yet not lost
All her original brightness, nor appear'd
Less than Arch-angel ruin'd, and th' excess
Of glory obscur'd: as when the sun new-ris'n
Looks through the horizontal misty air,
Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon
In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds
On half the nations, and with fear of change

Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone
Above them all th' Arch-angel: but his face
Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd, and care
Sat on his faded cheek, but under brows
Of dauntless courage, and considerate pride
Waiting revenge: cruel his eye, but cast
Signs of remorse and passion, to behold
The fellows of his crime, the followers rather,
Far other once beheld in bliss, condemn'd
For ever now to have their lot in pain.

3. Derive eight of the following words: Island, gazette, tribulation, sluggard, pantry, maudlin, lieutenant, able, green, infantry, dim, dungeon, cousin, butcher.

4. Explain and illustrate the proper usage of shall and will. 5. Re-write, so as to correct or improve, the following sentences, giving reasons for any changes you may make :(a) Domestic society is the seminary of social affections,

where the first elements are acquired of that tenderness and humanity which cements mankind together; and which, were they entirely extin guished, the whole fabric of social institutions would be dissolved.

(b) There are few words in the English language which are employed in a more loose or circumscribed sense than those of the fancy and the imagination. (c) Never examining accounts, nor referring to receipts, it was no wonder that his affairs fell into confusion. On grappling with them seriously at last, he was found to be even more deeply in arrears than had been imagined.

(d) At the very time when he and his cousin were discussing his misgivings, the fair damsel to whom he

had plighted his troth was indulging in an equally clouded forecast of her own future in the chaste recesses of her suburban home.

6. Give a general analysis of the following passage, and parse the words in italics :

As when, upon a tranced summer night,

Those green-robed senators of mighty woods,
Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars,
Dream, and so dream all night without a stir,
Save from one gradual solitary gust

Which comes upon the silence, and dies off,
As if the ebbing air had but one wave;
So came these words and went.

ENGLISH-SECOND PAPER.

SATURDAY, 29TH SEPTEMBER 1900, 12 NOON to 2 P.M.

(Eight, and not more than eight, questions are to be answered. Of these, three must be taken from Section A (and of the three, 5 must be one), three from Section B, and two from Section C.

A.

1. Give some account of not more than three of the following: The Wife of Bath, Una, Malvolio, Lycidas,' 'A Tale of a Tub,' 'Rasselas,' 'The Task,' 'The Eve of St Agnes,' 'In Memoriam,' "Westward Ho!'

Or,

State briefly the poetical merits and defects of Pope or of Coleridge.

2. What are the passages most admirable as poetry in 'Richard III.,' and in what scenes does Shakespeare's faculty of drawing character chiefly show itself?

3. How does Thackeray present the characters of any three of the following?-Steele, Addison, Swift, the Old Chevalier, and Isabel Lady Castlewood.

4. Summarise and discuss any two of the following passages in 'Marmion': The description of Romance in the Introduction the voyage from Whitby to Holy Island; the Host's Tale and the adventure following; the ghostly summons at the Cross. 5. Annotate :

(a) Now is the winter of our discontent

Made glorious summer by this sun of York.
(b) A base foul stone, made precious by the foil
Of England's chair, where he is falsely set.
(c) The flash of that satiric rage

Which, bursting o'er the early stage,
Branded the vices of the age,

And broke the keys of Rome.

(d) Where my great grandsire came of old,

With amber beard and flaxen hair.

(e) As he rode along the lines to battle, or galloped up in the nick of time to a battalion reeling from before the enemy's charge or shot, the fainting men

and officers got new courage as they saw the splendid calm of his face, and felt that his will made them irresistible.

(f) I lay this at your feet and stamp upon it: I draw this sword, and break it, and deny you.

B.

1. Give some account of four of the following: the first Duke of Buckingham of the Villiers family, Sir Edward Coke, Pym, Prince Rupert, Blake, Sir William Temple, Halifax (Savile), Lauderdale, Claverhouse, Somers, Sancroft.

2. Give a somewhat fuller account of Strafford or of the Duke of Monmouth.

3. Write notes on four of the following: Monopolies; the Hampton Court Conference; the "Addled" Parliament; Ship Money; the Major-Generals; the Cabal; the Declaration of Indulgence; Darien.

4. Sketch in order the chief events of one of the following periods: 1603-1612; 1642-1647; or 1688-1702.

5. What were the main changes which came upon thought and practice in politics, literature, religion, and manners at or about the Restoration ?

C.

1. Draw a map of Africa as far southwards as a line drawn from the mouth of the Congo to Zanzibar, with the chief political divisions, rivers, lakes, and towns.

2. Follow the coast of Scotland, westwards and southwards from John o' Groat's to the Mull of Galloway, indicating the chief geographical features as they occur.

3. What countries have points of influence, political and commercial, on the Gulf of Pechili, the Persian Gulf, the east coast of Africa?

4. Trace the course of any two of the larger rivers of France, indicating the places of interest thereon.

ENGLISH-FIRST PAPER.

SATURDAY, 30TH MARCH 1901, 9 to 11 A.M.

(Five, and not more than five, questions are to be answered. Questions 1, 2, and 6 must be answered by all.

1. Write an essay, of from two to three pages long, on one of the following subjects:

(1) On the remedies for overcrowding in large cities.

(2) The character of Edmund in Lear,' as compared with some of Shakespeare's other "villains."

(3) The Scottish Covenanters as depicted by Scott.

2. Paraphrase :—

What are we set on earth for? Say, to toil;
Nor seek to leave thy tending of the vines
For all the heat o' the day, till it declines,

And Death's mild curfew shall from work assoil.
God did anoint thee with His odorous oil,
To wrestle, not to reign; and He assigns
All thy tears over, like pure crystallines,
For younger fellow-workers of the soil
To wear for amulets. So others shall
Take patience, labour, to their heart and hand,
From thy hand and thy heart and thy brave cheer,
And God's grace fructify through thee to all.

The least flower, with a brimming cup may stand,
And share its dew-drop with another near.

3. Give the derivation of eight of the following words: Jeopardy, ketchup, poultry, sward, truce, umpire, orison, donkey, counterpane, wedlock, myrmidon, pew, phylloxera, minstrel, bugle.

4. Explain the terms relative pronoun and conjunctive pronoun. Exemplify the use of each of the relative pronouns and show, especially, how who differs in usage from that.

5. Re-write, so as to correct or improve, the following sentences, giving reasons for any changes you may make :(a) Edinburgh has good fortifying purposes, being surrounded by hills, and such places as the house where

John Knox lived, &c., are very interesting, and every
one flocks to see them.

(b) A courtier in the time of Elizabeth, whose father hav-
ing died early, he was left the charge of a younger
brother Robert to whom he was almost as father.
(c) I am not obliged to read any book for this examination.