(2) The theory of the uniform flexure of beams, and its application to beams under transverse load.

(3) The stability of a straight bar under longitudinal force.

(4) The transmission of stress in an isotropic solid from a point of application of force.

(5) Betti's Reciprocal Theorem with applications.

MATHEMATICS.-PAPER VI.

The Board of Examiners.

Write Essays on not more than three of the following subjects:

(1) Solid Spherical Harmonics.

(2) The deduction of the Laplace-Poisson Equation in Potential Theory.

(3) The general theorems of Vortex Motion.

(4) The impulsive motion of liquids.

(5) Capillary Waves.

SCHOOL OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE.

ENGLISH.

FIRST PAPER.

Mr. Sutherland.

1. What are the chief peculiarities to be noticed in the verbs of Chaucer's English?

2. Give Chaucer's description of the Frankeleyn, quoting the exact lines wherever you can.

3. Tell briefly the Prioresses Tale, from Chaucer.

4. Give the meanings and derivations of these words: -Herbergage, nempne, nowches, ymaad, habergeoun, unnethe, tercelet, glose.

5. What are the poetic qualities which, in your opinion, make Chaucer's work stand out from that of other writers in his period? Quote such instances as you can remember to illustrate each point.

6. Give a brief narrative of the close of the Second Nonnes Tale. What is the moral lesson which forms the prelude to the story? Mention Chaucer's three theories of the etymology of the heroine's name.

7. Comment on these passages of Sidney's Apologie for Poetrie:

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(a) "I never heard the olde song of Percy and Duglas that I found not my heart mooved more then with a Trumpet."

(b) "Those kinde of objections, as they are full of very idle easines, sith there is nothing of so sacred a majestie, but that an itching tongue may rubbe itselfe upon it, so deserve they no other answer, but in steed of laughing at the jest, to laugh at the jester."

(c) "One may be a poet without versing, and a versifier without poetrie."

(d) "Certain poets, as Simonides and Pindarus, had so prevailed with Hiero the first, that of a Tirant they made him a just king, where Plato could do so little with Dionisius that he himself of a Philosopher was made a slave." 8. (a) What is the whimsical curse with which Sidney ends his Apologie against those who have "so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot look up to the sky of Poetrie"?

(b) "In the noblest nations and languages that are known poetry hath been the first light-giver unto ignorance." What examples does Sidney draw from Greece, Rome, Italy, and England to justify this dictum ?

9. Trace the influence of Edmund Spenser on succeeding English poets.

10. Describe succinctly the state of English poetry in these periods, A.D.-1550, 1600, 1650, 1700,1750. 11. Name the six English writers whom you consider most successful in lyric poetry, giving the title of three or four pieces that you like best in the case of each, and quoting at least one stanza from each poet.

12. Contrast the poetry of Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, and Byron.

ENGLISH.

SECOND PAPER.

Mr. Sutherland.

1. Give the substance of the description of Macbeth's castle, uttered when King Duncan is entering it. What are the artistic effects produced by this passage before the murder, and by the drunken porter's soliloquy after it?

2. Give a brief description of the sleep-walking scene at the beginning of Act V. of Macbeth.

3. "Being moved, he will not spare to gird the gods. The present wars devour him : he is grown Too proud to be so valiant."

Of whom is this said, and under what circumstances?

Explain fully the meaning of each phrase.

4. Compare and contrast the characters of Volumnia and Virgilia.

5. How would you amend these corrupt readings?— (a) "O that his fault should make a knave of thee, That art not what thou'rt sure of!"

(b)

"The hearts

That panelled me at heels, to whom I gave
Their wishes, do discandy, melt their sweets
On blossoming Caesar."

(c) "Being so frustrate, tell him he mocks
The pauses that he makes."

6. Describe fully the scene of the death of Antony.

7. To which period of Shakspeare's life would you assign Cymbeline? Give your reasons fully.

Describe shortly the sources from which he derived its materials.

8. Professor Dowden says "Posthumus and Imogen would be a fitter name for the play than Cymbeline." Discuss this opinion.

9. Comment on the following passages of King Lear(a) "Oh these eclipses do portend these divisions, fa, sol, la, mi."

(b) "If I had a monopoly out, they would have part on 't."

(c) "Aroint thee, witch, aroint thee."

(d) "Whipped from tything to tything, and stocked, punished, and imprisoned."

10. Schlegel remarks-" As in Macbeth terror reaches its utmost height, so in King Lear compassion is exhausted." Discuss this contrast.

11. Give the substance of Bacon's Essay"Of Adversity."

12. Comment on these passages of Bacon(a) "Surely as there are mountebanks for the natural body, so there are mountebanks for the politic body."

(b) “A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure." (c) "L. Sylla raised Pompey to that height that Pompey vaunted himself for Sylla's overmatch."

(d) "The blessing of Judas and Issachar will never meet."