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3. "Where are the Morea, Cape Clear, Mont Cenis, Norfolk Island, "Vancouver's Island ? Describe the last two. 4. "When it is 10 a.m. on the 20th January at Greenwich, what date and hour is it at Wellington, New Zealand ? 5. Name, and state in what countries are the highest mountain in the world, the longest river, the largest salt-water lake, the largest fresh-water lake, the highest active volcano, the widest desert, the lowest depression of land below the sea level.

S E IST I O H. ENGLISH. Having read the accompanying correspondence, 1. Make a short abstract, schedule, or docket of the several letters. 2. Draw up a memorandum or precis — i.e., a brief and clear statement of what passed, not letter by letter, but in the form of a narrative. Directions. 1. The object of the abstract, schedule, or docket is to serve as an index. It should contain the date of each letter, the names of the persons by whom and to whom it is written, and, in as few words as possible, the subject of it. The merits of such an abstract are —(1) to give the really important point or points of each letter, omitting anything else ; (2) to do this briefly; (3) distinctly; and (4) in such a form as to readily catch the eye. 2. The object of the memorandum or precis, which should he in the form of a narrative, is that any one who had not time to read the original letters might, by reading the precis, be put in possession of all the leading features of what passed. The merits of such a precis are —(1) to contain all that is important in the correspondence, and nothing that is unimportant; (2) to present this in a consecutive and readable shape, expressed as distinctly as possible ; (3) to be as brief as is compatible with completeness and distinctness. You are recommended to read the whole correspondence through before beginning to write, as the goodness both of the abstract and of the precis will depend very much on a correct appreciation of the relative importance of the different parts. Brevity should be particularly studied. (A Parliamentary Paper containing suitable correspondence is given to the candidate with this paper.) LATIN. Horace — Odes. 1. Translate— Mater saeva Cupidinum, Urit me Glycerae nitor Thebanaeque jubet me Semeles puer, Splendentis Pario marmore purius: Et lasciva licentia, Urit grata protervitas, Einitis anhnum reddere amoribus. Et vultus nimium lubricus adspici. Hie vivum mihi caespitem, hie Verbenas, pueri, ponite, thuraque Bimi cum patera meri: Mactata veniet lenior hostia. 2. Decline marmore, caespitem, and thura, and give the principal parts of reddere, urit, ponite. 3. Translate— Sed quid Typhoeus et validus Mimas, Contra sonantem Palladis aegida Aut quid minaci Porphyrion statu, Possent ruentes ? Hinc avidus stetit Quid Rhoetus, evolsisque truncis Vulcanus ; hinc matrona Juno, et Enceladus jaculator audax, Nunquam humeris positurus arcum, Qui rore puro Castaliae lavit Crines solutos, qui Lyciae tenet Dumeta, natalemque silvam, Delius et Patareus Apollo. 4. Scan the first stanza in question 3. 5. "What settles the case of a relative pronoun ? Virgil—Mneid I. JEneid II Translate— 0 qui res hominumque deiimque 0 lux Dardaniae ! spes 0 fidissima Teucrum! Aeternis regis imperiis, et fulmine terres, Quaetantaetenuere morae? quibus Hector ab oris Quid meus Aeneas in te committere tantum. Exspectate venis ? ut te post multa tuorum Quid Troes potuere ? quibus, tot funera passis, Funera, post varios hominumque urbisque labores, Cunctus ob Italiam terrarum clauditur orbis. Defessi aspicimus ! quae causa indigna serenos Certe hinc Eomanos olim, volventibus annis, Poedavit vultus ? aut cur haec vulnera cerno ? Hinc fore ductores, revocato a sanguine Teucri, Hie nihil; nee me quaerentem vana moratur: Qui mare, qui terras omni ditione tenerent, Sed, graviter gemitus imo de pectore ducens, Pollicitus. Quae te, Genitor, sententia vertit? Heu! fuge, nate dea, teque his, ait, eripe flainmis. Hoc equidem occasum Trojae, tristesquc ruinas Hostis habet muros; ruit alto a culmine Troja. Solabar, fatis contraria fata rependens.