happiness that does not affect his character. That was Juvenal's belief, to which he attained by the slow teaching of years. Grand as the lines sound in which he exhorts the young noble to deem it supreme impiety to prefer existence to honour, and not to lose for life's sake that which makes life worth having, a close examination of the context will convince us that he thinks more of the unspotted name than of the untainted soul. Juvenal never attains altogether to the scientific level. He sees that it is irrational and wrong to pray that the order of the world may be changed for a man's personal advantage, but he is not sure that the mind is not external to the universe.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE.— PART I.

The Board of Examiners.

1. The following passages are from King John:-
(a) It lies as sightly on the back of him
As great Alcides' shows upon an ass.

(b) By heaven, these scroyles of Angiers flout
you, kings,

(c)

And stand securely on their battlements.

Imprisoned angels

Set at liberty: the fat ribs of peace
Must by the hungry now be fed upon :
Use our commission in his utmost force.

Explain the meaning of each passage; give the substance of the context; and comment on any unusual word or sense of a word.

2.

Be of good comfort, prince, for you are born
To set a form upon that indigest

Which he hath left so shapeless and so rude.

Who says this ? To whom? Was the prophecy fulfilled in any way by subsequent history?

3. Write characters of Arthur, Duke of Bretagne, and Henry, Earl of Richmond.

4. Explain the following words from King John:alchemist, Bedlam, cardinal, handkercher, metropolis, by my christendom; and the following from King Richard III.:—beholding, cozen, cue, curst, mew, I wis.

In addition to the meaning give the history of any three of these words.

5. Comment on the following passages from King Richard III., and explain the allusions in them :

(a) To be her men and wear her livery. (b) It is determined, not concluded yet. (c) O, then began the tempest to my soul, Who pass'd, methought, the melancholy flood With that grim ferryman which poets write of, Unto the kingdom of perpetual night.

(d) I say, without characters, fame lives long.
(Aside.) Thus, like the formal vice, Iniquity,
I moralize two meanings in one word.

6. What was Milton's comment on the passage?—
I do not know that Englishman alive
With whom my soul is any jot at odds

More than the infant that is born to-night:
I thank my God for my humility.

And whence comes the quotation ?

Woe to that land that's governed by a child!

7. Explain the following from Milton's Sonnets:

(a)

The repeated air

Of sad Electra's poet.

(b)

That dishonest victory

At Chæronea, fatal to liberty,

Killed with report that old man eloquent.

(c) Thy age, like ours, O soul of Sir John Cheek, Hated not learning, worse than toad or asp, When thou taughtst Cambridge, and King Edward Greek.

(d) Latona's twin-born progeny.

(e) A classic hierarchy.

(f) The triple tyrant.

(g) Casella, whom he woo'd to sing.

8. The following are from Addison :

(a) The first is a yeoman of about a hundred pounds a year, an honest man: he is just within

the Game Act.

Explain what is meant by a yeoman, and the provisions of the Game Act.

(b) Another is for setting up an assembly for basset, where none shall be admitted to punt that have not taken the oaths.

Explain the words in italic.

(c) Finding by her discourse that she was no better than a rebel in a riding-hood, began to suspect her for my Lord Nithisdale.

What is the allusion?

(d) The bills of mortality.

(e)

What is meant by this phrase, and how is it used?

took his stand

Upon a widow's jointure land. From whom is the quotation? the subject of verb "took"? "jointure."

Who is

Explain

9. Explain Macaulay's use and give the derivation of the following:-actuary, barb, carabineer, glebe, harbinger, marauder, tar, termagant, whittle.

(a) which an Athenian would have called a Syn

teleia.

(b) the conqueror of Lepanto.

(c) a Sallee rover.

(d) scorbutic and pulmonary complaints.

(e) The levee was exactly what the word imports.

11. What does Macaulay tell us about Robert Blake? What more do you know about him?

ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE.PART II.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Sketch briefly the condition of English Letters(1) on the accession of King James I.,

(2) at the death of Milton,

(3) on the accession of King George III.

2. Write a short life of Hooker, and describe the chief characteristics of his prose.

3. Suggest a modern parallel to Bacon's New Atlantis.

4. What is the accepted criticism on Marlowe's Dr. Faustus ?

5. Write a short history of the novel in the eighteenth century.

6. Contrast the style of Landor and of Carlyle.

7. What are the chief contributions of the United States to English Literature?

8. Comment on the following passages:-
:-

(a) Her-over all whose realms to their last isle,
Commingled with the gloom of imminent war,
The shadow of his loss drew like eclipse,
Darkening the world.

(b) Thunderless lightnings striking under sea From sunset and sunrise of all thy realm,