4. Can any ancient author be said to have had a strong sense of the beauty of nature, or is the feeling wholly modern ?

5. The chief reasons for and against anonymous writing.

6. Compare the English, Scotch, and Irish character.

III.

1. How do Herodotus and Thucydides respectively treat the myths and early history of Greece? What data have we for determining how far Herodotus was in advance of his predecessors in respect of critical discernment?

2. Give a brief history of Roman tragedy, and estimate the influence, direct and indirect, of the Grecian drama upon the literature of Rome.

3. Compare the powers of the executive at Athens and Sparta in the fifth century A.C.

4. The history and justification of the Revolution of the Four Hundred at Athens (A.C. 411), and the characters of the chief actors therein.

5. Note the principal events in the history of the following places: Miletus, Cyrene, Tarentum, Capua.

6. Indicate the greatest crises in the military history of Rome in the period A.C. 510-367.

7. Describe carefully the system of provincial administration employed by Rome in the sixth and seventh centuries of the city. What securities were there against the abuse of power on the part of the local governors?

8. Draw a contrast between any two of the great English poets.

IV.

1. Who were Wycliff, General George Monk, Richelieu, Velasquez, Galileo?

2. Mention any important events you may remember in the reigns of the first and last kings of the line of Stuart.

3. Estimate the advantages and disadvantages of England's insular position.

4. The effect of slavery on the dominant class.

5. 'Est finitimus oratori poeta.' poetry and oratory agree and differ.

Show clearly how

6. The characteristics and the use of good novels.
7. Criticise:

(a) 'I bridle in my struggling muse with pain,
That longs to launch into a bolder strain.'

Addison.

(b) The report is that he should have said in confidence, that he would never bear arms against him.'-Hume.

(c) An I might live to see thee married, I have my wish.'

8. Explain carefully an epigram.' What is its use? Explain the following in the light of your definition : (a) He surpassed himself."'

(b) The irresistible logic of facts.'

(c) Nothing is so fallacious as facts, except figures.'-Canning.

(d) 'The legendary age was a past that was never present.'-Grote.

(e) 'Sensation is sensation.'-Johnson.

9. Give an outline of the history of Sicily.

V.

1. Illustrate the influence of physical conditions on the history of a nation.

2. Athens, Rome, Venice, Florence, the United States, have all been called republics. What characteristics have they in common, and what are the chief differences in their republicanism?

3. Describe the political position of Pericles, Caius Gracchus, and Julius Cæsar.

4. The variations in the military tactics of the nations of antiquity.

5. Sketch briefly the struggle between Kings and Parliaments from the reign of Henry III. to the beginning of that of Charles I.

6. Compare England and France at the end of the fifteenth century.

7. What were the chief political changes made by the English Revolution of 1688?

8. What main changes have there been in the causes of European wars in the last four centuries?

9. Sketch and estimate the political career of the two Pitts.

VI.

1. In what sense are the following sayings true?—

(a) Extremes meet.

(b) Summum jus summa injuria.

(c) The paradox of one age is the truism of the

next.

2. What is meant by Free Trade and Protection? State the arguments used on either side.

3. The constitutional sovereign 'reigns but does not govern.' What does this mean, and what is the kind of influence which belongs to the constitutional monarch?

4. Explain accurately the following: casuistry— sceptic-natural selection-deduction-induction.

5. Compare Eschylus and Euripides, Horace and Catullus, Keats and Shelley.

6. A short account of the life and works of any of the following: Dante, Pascal, Goethe, Voltaire, Defoe, Wordsworth.

VII.

1. What is the meaning of the following sayings, and in what sense are they true?

mon

(α) πλέον ἥμισυ παντός.

(b) Exceptio probat regulam.

(c) Truth is stranger than fiction.

2. Distinguish accurately: wisdom-prudence-comsense: metaphor—simile-illustration: legalequitable constitutional: monarchy-royalty -sovereignty: republic-democracy-commonwealth.

3. In what characteristic does the literature of Ancient Greece most resemble or differ from that of England?

4. Is Prose or Poetry the earliest form of literature? Give reasons for your answer.

5. Show how Philology contributes to historical discovery.

6. A short account of the life and works of any of the following:-St. Bernard, Machiavelli, Spenser, Mil

ton, Schiller, Molière. Give at the same time an outline of the period in which your author lived.

7. The causes and consequences of the Seven Years' War.

VIII.

1. Define the following words: Self-evident, crisis, barbarous, cycle, illusion.

2. On what principle would you distinguish between plagiarism and legitimate imitation.

3. 'Has life so little store of real woes

That here ye come to taste fictitious grief?'

Do you consider this a valid objection to tragedy as a species of entertainment?

4. Through what means have the Popes of Rome acquired their spiritual supremacy?

5. By what races were the Roman provinces invaded in the decline of the Empire? Which of them made permanent settlements?

6. Describe the arbitrary government of the Stuart Kings of England. In what way was it more oppressive than that of the Tudors?

7. What evils in the republic did Caius and Tiberius Gracchus attempt to remedy?

8. How did Athens acquire its maritime supremacy? 9. Describe shortly the career of Epaminondas, Julian, Saladin, Sixtus V.