839. A gentle knight was pricking on the plaine,
Ycladd in mightie armes and silver shielde
Wherein old dints of deepe wounds did remaine.'
SPENSER, Fairie Queene.

Analyze the subordinate sentences in the above.

340. What is the word 'that' used for in the following? Parse it fully:-'I may do that I shall be sorry for.'

341. 'Air and ye elements-the eldest birth

Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run
Perpetual circle multiform, and mix

And nourish all things; let your ceaseless change
Vary to your great Maker still new praise.'

MILTON.

Parse the words ye, birth, circle, let, change, vary, praise.
But now help God, to quenchen all this sorrow!

342.

343.

So hope I that he shall, for he best may,

For I have seen of a full misty morrow 1
Followen oft a merry summer's day,
And after winter cometh greenë May,

Folk see all day, and eke men read in stories
That after sharpë stourës 2 be victories.'

CHAUCER.

Analyze the first two lines and parse the words in italics.
'And though he holy were and vertuous,
He was to sinful men not despitous,
But in his teaching discrete and benigne.
To drawen folk to heaven with fairenesse
By good example was his besinesse.'

(a) Analyze the last two lines.
(b) Parse the words in italics.

CHAUCER.

344. Point out and analyze the subordinate sentence in the following:-Certainly Virtue is like precious Odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. For Prosperity does best discover Vice, but Adversity does best discover Virtue.'BACON.

345. Parse the words in italics in the above.

846. 'Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be Stourës, struggles.

Morrow, morning.

wise; which, having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.' (a) Parse the words in italics.

(b) How many sentences are there in the above?

(c) Write out each, and state what kind it is.

(d) Point out any enlargement of the subject which occurs in the above passage.

347.

'His unclouded breast,

No envy stung, no jealousy distressed

Bane of the poor! it wounds their weaker mind
To miss one favour which their neighbours find.'
CRABBE.

(a) Analyze the above, pointing out any difficulties that you notice in the construction in the last two lines. (b) Parse the pronouns in the above passage.

348.

'A poor widow, some deal yclept in age,
Was whilom dwelling in a poor cottage,
Beside a grovë, standing in a dale :-
This widow, of which I tell you my tale,
Since thilke day that she was last a wife
In patience led a full simple life.'

(a) Analyze the last three lines.

(b) Parse the words in italics.

349. Analyze the following, and parse the words in italics:'Beneath those rugged elms, that yew tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a smouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid,

The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.'

GRAY'S Elegy in a Country Churchyard. 350. How many thousands of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep! Sleep, gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness?'

SHAKESPEARE'S Henry IV.

(a) Analyze the second sentence in the above.

(6) Parse the words in italics.

351. Parse the words in italics in passage No. 6, page 21, and analyze the first three sentences of it.

COMPOSITION AND NOTES OF LESSONS.

N.B.-In many instances the composition is judged by the answers in History and Geography or other subjects; and in many instances also a passage is read once by the inspector, the substance of which pupils are required to write down afterwards in their own words.

In addition, the following Composition Exercises have been given :

1. Describe the town or village in which your school is situated.

2. Write a short letter to a schoolfellow.

3. Write a short letter to a fellow pupil teacher.

4. Write notes of a lesson on Mountains.

5. Write a specimen letter to your teacher during the holidays.

6. Write a short essay on Early Rising.'

7. Write full notes of a lesson on Sugar, Rice, or Cotton. 8. Write a letter describing to a friend your daily work as a pupil teacher.

9. Describe concisely, but chronologically, the sources and growth of the English language.

10. Write notes of a lesson on Rivers.

11. Write a letter to your teacher on some subject connected with your school duties.

12. Write a short account of the earth's motions, and show what results from them, and why.

13. Write notes of a lesson on the Lion.

14. Write notes of a lesson on the Gulf Stream.

15. Write a short letter to one of your parents.

16. Write full notes of a lesson on the Elephant. 17. Write full notes of a lesson on "Wheat.'

18. Write notes of a lesson on the Whale.

19. Write a letter to a fellow pupil teacher at a distance, telling him about your school.

20. Write notes of a lesson on Barley.

21. Write a short account of the island of Ceylon.

22. Write a letter to a friend giving an account of what subjects you are studying out of school hours.

23. Write a letter to a friend saying how you think of spending the holidays.

24. Write a letter to a friend at a distance, telling him how you spent last Saturday and Sunday.

25. Write a letter telling how you propose to spend the Christmas holidays.

26. Write notes of a lesson on Snow.

27. Write notes of a lesson on the parts of a Flower.

28. Write notes of a lesson on the 'Dog.'

29. Write the heads of a lesson on Gibraltar.

30. Write notes of a lesson on the Reindeer. 31. Write notes of a lesson on Earthquakes.

32. Write notes of a lesson on the shape of the Earth. 33. Write notes of a lesson on 'Coal.'

34. Write notes of a lesson on Idleness.

35. Write notes of a lesson on Australia.

36. Write a letter describing your Easter holidays.

37. Write a letter to a friend at a distance, telling him how you usually employ yourself in summer on Saturdays.

38. Write a letter to a friend, stating what you are studying, and what subjects you like best.

39. Write a letter giving an account of a journey by railway from London to Edinburgh, and naming the chief towns passed on the road.

40. Write a letter giving an account of a journey by railroad from Dover to Manchester, naming the counties through which 'you would have to pass.

41. Write a letter narrating a voyage from Liverpool to St. Petersburg in a steamboat.

42. Write a letter narrating a journey from London to Constantinople.

43. Write a letter describing a journey from Havre to Trieste either by land or by sea, naming the principal places which you pass.

44. Write notes of a lesson on Corn.

45. Write notes of a lesson on the Cow.

46. Write notes of a lesson on British India.

47. Write full notes of a lesson on Egypt.

48. Write notes of a lesson on the island of Malta. 49. Write notes of a lesson on 'Climate.'

50. Write notes of a lesson on a Photograph.

51. Write notes of a lesson on Persia.

52. Write notes of a lesson on the rivers of India.

53. Describe the building, playgrounds, and so forth of your school, as you would in writing to a friend who had not seen them.

54. Write an account of any place which you have visited. 55. Write an account of your attending this examination, as if you were writing to a friend at a distance.

56. Write notes of a lesson on 'a Pane of Glass.'

57. Write notes of a lesson on a Shilling.

58. Write notes of a lesson on the basin of the river Medway, or of the river Danube.

59. Write out full notes of a lesson on any king's reign. 60. Write out full notes of a lesson on European Turkey.

61. Write out full notes of a lesson on 'Proportion' to a first class, explaining, if you can, how the same question could be treated by the rule of 'First Principles,' and by that of State

ment.

62. Write full notes of a lesson on the 'Verb.'

63. Write full notes of a lesson on the chief occupations of the inhabitants of South Staffordshire.

64. Write full notes of a lesson on Vulgar Fractions, such as you would give to a class of children just commencing the rule.

65. Write full notes of a first lesson to young children on Grammar.

66. Write notes of a lesson on (1) the Caspian, (2) the British Settlements in Further India and China.

67. Write notes of a lesson on the Railways of England.