OCTOBER 1888.

1. Analyse this passage, and parse the words in Italics :-
'Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast,
Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round,
And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
Throws up a steamy column, and the cups
That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each,
So let us welcome peaceful evening in.'

2. From what source is the word sofa derived? Give other examples from the same source.

3. To what dates and events would you assign the adoption and discontinuance of French as the language of the English Court and Nobility.

4. Name the authors of Paradise Lost, The Faery Queen,' 'Vanity Fair,' 'Robinson Crusoe, The Task,' 'Kenil worth, The Excursion,'' The Idylls of the King'

QUEEN'S SCHOLARSHIP QUESTIONS.
MIDSUMMER 1886.

1. Write a letter descriptive of the town or village in which you live, or of any famous building in or near it; or

2. Write a short essay on one of these topics :

(a) Truthfulness, in act and word.

(b) Poetry.

(c) The queen rules over an empire on which the

sun never sets.

3. Analyse fully the first five lines of the following sonnet, and parse the words printed in Italics :

'Milton thou should'st be living at this hour,
England hath need of thee; she is a fen
Of stagnant waters; altar, sword, and pen,
Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower,
Have forfeited their ancient English dower

Of inward happiness. We are selfish men;
Oh! raise us up; return to us again;
And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.

Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart,

Thou had'st a voice whose sound was like the sea,
Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free,
So did'st thou travel on Life's common way,
In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart
The lowliest duties on herself did lay.'

4. Paraphrase the foregoing extract, and select from it any examples of words or phrases which are not used literally, but as 'figures of speech.'

5. Name six of the most famous English writers.

Say when each of them lived, and what books he wrote.

6. Take each of the following words, and add to it a Prefix or a Suffix. Explain, in each case, what change in the meaning of the word has been effected by the additional syllable :

Just, friend, wise, admire, sincere, faith, pure, hard, brother, speak.

7. Explain each of the following grammatical terms, and give an example illustrating its use :

Infinitive, Predicate, Inflection, Relative, Dative, Ap position, Subjunctive, Government, Transitive.

8. Show by examples the different uses which may be made in English of the words 'WHAT' and 'THAT.' Parse the

sentence:

'What seemed his head

The likeness of a kingly crown had on.'

9. If there be anything wrong in any of the following sentences, correct it, and give your reasons:

(a) I should have liked to have seen so fine a sight. (b) I do not think him a reliable person.

(c) There let him lay.

(d) Preferring to know the worst than to dream the

best.

(e) The courage of the soldier and of the citizen are
essentially different.

(ƒ) Each thought of others rather than themselves.
(g) The orator spoke of the notion that the national
debt might be repudiated with absolute
contempt.

10. How do you account for the presence in English of so

many words of Latin origin? Say by what token, either
as regards spelling or construction, you can recognise
that an English word is derived from Latin.
some examples.

QUEEN'S SCHOLARSHIP QUESTIONS.
MIDSUMMER 1887.

1. Write a short essay on one of these topics :-
(a) A ship on fire.

(b) Closer union with our colonies.

A walk round a garden.

Give

2. Analyse fully the following lines, and parse the words printed in Italics :

'There at the foot of yonder nodding beech,

That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high,
His listless length at noontide would he stretch,
And pore upon the brook that babbles by.'

3. Paraphrase the following passage, and parse the words in
Italics :-
:-

'Had'st thou but lived, though stripped of power,
A watchman on the lonely tower,

Thy thrilling trump had roused the land,

When fraud or danger were at hand :

By thee, as by the beacon light,

Our pilots had kept course aright.

As some proud column, though alone,

Thy strength had propped the tottering throne:

Now is the stately column broke,

The beacon light is quenched in smoke,

The trumpet's silver sound is still,

The warder silent on the hill !'

4. Classify Adjectives. How are they inflected?

would you parse the word white in the sentence-
I painted my house white?

How

5. Give the meaning of the Prefixes extra, ob, be, for, ante. What do the Suffixes ster, ish, ant, let, al denote respectively? Give examples in all cases.

6. In what different ways may the Infinitive Mood be used? Give examples.

7. Analyse the following sentences, supplying the words that are understood:

(a) She reads slowly, but very distinctly.

(b) He is taller than I am.

(c) Come as soon as possible.

8. Write notes of a lesson on Adverbial Sentences (or Clauses).

QUEEN'S SCHOLARSHIP QUESTIONS.

MIDSUMMER 1888.

1. Write an essay on—

(a) The importance of the telegraph and telephone from a commercial point of view; or

(b) Good manners; or

(c) The advantages of a school library. Name a dozen suitable books.

2. Analyse fully the following passage, and parse the words printed in Italics :—

When Henry the Eighth attempted to raise a forced loan of unusual amount by proceedings of unusual rigour, the opposition which he encountered was such as appalled even his stubborn and imperious spirit.

3. Paraphrase the following passage, and parse the words in Italics :

'There is in souls a sympathy with sounds,
And as the mind is pitched the ear is pleased
With melting air or martial, brisk or grave.
Some chord in unison with what we hear
Is touched within us, and the heart replies.
How soft the music of those village bells,
Falling at intervals upon the ear

In cadence sweet; now dying all away,
Now pealing loud again and louder still,
Clear and sonorous as the gale comes on,
With easy force it opens all the cells
Where memory slept.'

4 Analyse the following lines, and parse the words in Italics :

'The heights by great men reached and kept

Were not attained by sudden flight;

But they, while their companions slept,

Were toiling upward in the night.

5. Name the different classes of Conjunctions, and give an example of each.

6. Give three Prefixes of Saxon, and three of Latin origin, and three Suffixes by means of which Nouns are derived from Verbs, with two examples under each head.

7. Write notes of a first lesson on the Analysis of a Simple Sentence.

CERTIFICATE QUESTIONS.

First Year Females.

CHRISTMAS 1886.

1. Write a brief essay on one of the following subjects :— (a) Any excursion you have recently made, or exhibition you have visited.

(b) Habit.

(c) A teacher's life.

(d) Tennyson's aim in The Princess.

2. Explain the following passage, and the connection in which

it stands :

'Let them not fear: some said their heads were less;
Some men's were small; not they the least of men ;

For often fineness compensated size:

Besides, the brain was like the hand, and grew

With using; thence the man's, if more was more;
He took advantage of his strength to be
First in the field; some ages had been lost;
But woman ripened earlier, and her life
Was longer; and albeit their glorious names

Were fewer, scattered stars, yet since in truth
The highest is the measure of the man,
And not the Kaffir, Hottentot, Malay,

But Homer, Plato, Verulam; even so