1. In what does the business, of the confectioner consist?

3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. What are liquid and dry confects, jellies,

THE BREWER.

THE CONFECTIONER.

marmalades, conserves, candies, sugar-plumbs, ice cream, cakes? 11. In what other articles does the confectioner deal?

12. In what manner is soda water prepared?

13. Of what materials are pies and tarts composed?

1. What is meant by the art of brewing? What kind of grain is usually preferred by the brewer?

2, 3. By what means is barley converted into malt?

4, 5. Describe the process of mashing.

6. How many times does the same malt require to be mashed?

7. What is done with the product of the mashing-tun?

8. By what means is the fermentation effected?

9. When does the brewer's cleansing take place?

10. What are the denominations of the products of the brewery?

11. In what respects do the

1, 2. What is said of the subsistence of man on vegetable and animal food? What is said of the preference of one to the other, in different climates?

3. What is said of the Divine permission and prohibitions in regard to the use of flesh as food?

4. Where did the doctrine of transmigration arise? in what

different kinds of beer differ from each other?

12. Why are ale and porter called stock liquors ?

13. Where were fermented liquors first used?

14. What nation is most celebrated for brewing good liquors?

THE DISTILLER.

1. From what substances is alcohol extracted?

2, 3, 4. From what materials is whiskey obtained: and what is the process by which this liquor is produced?

5. What is done with the remains of the beer?

6. From what are brandy, rum, arrack, &c. distilled? 7. What is said of the alembic? |

THE BUTCHER.

| countries did it spread in ancient times? and where is it still entertained?

5. What is the leading feature of this doctrine? and why does it lead to abstinence from the flesh of animals?

6. How are the people in the country supplied with meat? and how in the villages, large towns, and cities?

are

8. For what purposes crude spirits re-distilled, after having been brought to market? 9. What is said of the deceptions practised in this kind of merchandise?

10. What is said of the ambix? 11. Were the ancients acquainted with alcohol?

12. What opinion with regard to the use of alcohol is becoming general?

13. What is said of the antiquity of the use of wine?

14, 15. Describe the process of making wine.

16. What deleterious substances are used to improve the sensible qualities of wine?

17. What kinds of wine are most usually met with in this country?

7. From whom do the butchers obtain their animals?

8. In what manner does the butcher proceed in slaughtering an ox?

9. Where is the meat sold in large towns and cities?

10. What is said of the employment of runners?

11. What is said of the health and corpulency of butchers?

THE TOBACCO PLANTER.

1. Of what country is tobacco a native production? What is said of the several names by which it has been distinguished?

2. When was this plant introduced into Europe?

3, 4. Detail the circumstances which were attendant upon its introduction.

6. What is said of the different species of this plant?

8. In what manner is a tobacco bed made?

9 When are the plants trans

THE MANUFACTURER

OF CLOTH.

1. In what manner were men clad in the primitive ages?

2. What fibres of the vegetable and animal kind are employed in the manufacture of cloth?

3. How many principal operations are comprised in the manufacture of cloth?

4. What objects are effected in carding? and in what manner is the operation performed?

5. What is said of machines for carding wool in the United States?

6. What kinds of wool are combed? and in what does the operation consist?

7. When, and by whom, was the first machine for combing wool invented?

8. In what does the process of spinning consist?

9, 10, 11. By whom, and in what manner, is the operation performed?

12. When, and by whom, was the jenny invented?

13. When, and by whom, was the water spinning-frame invented?

14. By whom, and when, was the mule invented?

15. In what manner are the fine and short wools carded and spun in the manufactories?

16. What is said of spinning worsted? and what of spinning flax, by machinery?

17. What is the first step preparatory to weaving?

18. After the warp has been wound on a cylindrical beam, how is it prepared for the reception of the filling?

19. Describe the manner in which weaving is performed.

20. What is said of weaving in general? and what of power looms?

21. By what means is the irregular nap removed from the finest cottons?

22. How are stuffs made of vegetable fibres whitened? 23. How are fine cottons converted into calico?

24. What is said of worsted fabrics?

25. To what kind of stuffs is the art of fulling applicable? 26. Describe the process of fulling.

27. In what manner is the nap raised, and cut off to an even surface?

28. What is said of the manufacture of cloth in families?

29, 30. Relate the history of the woollen manufacture in England.

31. What is said of the extent of the woollen manufacture in England?

32. What is said of the cotton and woollen manufacture in the United States?

THE SILK-WORM. 1. By what insect is silk produced! From what is the silkworm produced? and what are its several transformations?

2. In what manner are the fibres of the cocoon wound upor a reel ?

3. What is done with the raw silk by the manufacturers?

4, What is said of the origin of the silk worm?

5. When did the Greeks and the Romans become acquainted with silk?

6. What is said of the costliness of silk in ancient times?

8. Until what period was the Roman empire supplied with silk by the Persians?

9. By whose assistance did Justinian obtain some eggs from India?

10. When, and by whom was the rearing of these worms introduced into Sicily?

11. By whom, was the silkworm introduced into England? and how has it succeeded there?.

12. What is said regarding the silk-worm, and the silk manufacture in the United States?

THE DYER.

1. In what does the art of dyeing consist?

2. What is the nature of the union of the colouring matter with the fibres ?

3. In what manner are the several substances to be dyed, prepared for the process?

4. How are the substances used in dyeing divided?

5. Name the principal substances used as mordants.

6. Name the leading colours. 7,8. What substances are used in making the dyes for these colours? and how are the intermediate hues produced?

11. What was the favourite colour of the ancients? and how was the mode of communicating it suggested?

12. What is said of the use of this colour by the Jews and Babylonians?

14. What is said of the Tyrian purple?

16. What colour was second in repute among the ancients?

17. By what means was the art of dyeing lost, and how was it recovered, in the western parts of Europe?

18. What is said of indigo,

stances?

THE CALICO PRINTER. 1. What arts are combined in calico printing?

2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Describe the process of calico printing.

7. In what respect does calico printing differ from dyeing? 8. What is said of this art in India?

9. When were calicoes first brought to Europe? and when was calico printing commenced in London? How many yards are supposed to be printed annually, in the United States?

1. What vegetable substances are used as materials for ropes? 2. Where are the operations of rope-making performed?

3. In what does the first part of the process consist?

4, 5, 6. Describe the wheel of the rope-maker, and the operations of spinning.

7. In what does the second part of the process consist?

THE ROPE-MAKER.

8. Of how many strands does cordage generally consist?

9, 10. In what manner are the strands formed into small cordage, and also into large cordage?

11. At what stage of the process, and in what manner, is tar applied to the material?

animal fibre in the manufacture of ropes?

15. Where is hemp cultivated? What is said of flax, as a material for cordage, and of hemp, as a material for cloth?

1. In what does the business of the tailor consist?

2. In what manner is the measure of the person taken?

3. By what classes of workmen, are the several parts of the labour performed?

4. What is said of the employment of females in this business?

THE TAILOR.

5. Name the instruments employed in performing the operations of the tailor.

6. What is said of the art of the master tailor, and his qualifications?

7. By whom was given the first hint as to the art of clothing the human body?

8. What is said of the primitive method of sewing?

9. What is said of the practice of this art as a business?

10. Describe the Roman toga. 11. What is said of the tunica of the Romans?

12. What is said of the toga prætexta, and toga virilis?