1. State the rules for determining gender in Latin.

2. Give the genitive plural of the following nouns : Gradus, facinus, ædes, mas, iter, sus, caro, falx, ver, aries, clades.

If 6 apples cost 5 farthings and 4 are sold for 5 farthings, therefore 6 apples will realize a profit of 24 farthings.

VI. Elementary Knowledge of Latin.

(i.) The gender of a Latin noun is shown by meaning or by form.

(ii.) Males, months, winds and people, are always masculine, and most names of mountains and rivers.

(iii.) Females and islands are feminine, and most names of countries, cities and trees.

(iv.) Nouns indeclinable are neuter: as fas, nefas, and the verb noun infinitive.

(v.) The following are amongst those common to either sex: artifex, vates, custos, index, dux, auctor, exul, conjux.

Graduum, facinorum, ædium, marium, itinerum, suum, carnium, falcium, ver (no plural), arietum, cladium.

4. Give the genitive of ego, nos, is, alius, unusquisque, hi, uter.

5. In construing a sentence what is the first thing to look for and why? What verbs take the genitive or ablative of the object?

Mei, nostrum or nostri, ejus, eorum, earum, eorum, alius, uniuscujusque, horum, harum, horum, utrius.

The nominative case, because it contains the subject either expressed or understood.

Verbs which signify to have an abundance of anything, to provide with anything, to treat anyone in such a way that he obtains something, take the ablative of the object; such are fungor, fruor, utor, vescor, dignor, potior.

Verbs which take a genitive of the object are those which signify to remember, to forget, and those which denote to remind a person of anything, as admoneo, commonėo, commonefacio, also verbs of feeling generally govern the genitive.

Participle

.aiens

Plural.

ebamus ebatis ēbant

aias aiat

aiāmus

Odi, I hate, is not used in the present and those tenses derived from it.

Indic. Perf. odi, odisti, odit, odimus, odistis, odērunt;
Plupf. oderam, Fut. Perf. odero; Poten. Pres. oderim;
Plupf. odissem; Infin. odisse; Part. Fut. osurus.

Præ means before; because of, in comparison with, on account of.

Note.-Præ, in the sense of because of, chiefly occurs in negative sentences.

Infra implies beneath; of place or relation.

Sub has two renderings, and means generally under, up to, &c. (a) With the accusative: under, up to (of motion); of time, about (just after or before).

(b) With the ablative: under (usually without motion); of time (just upon, after).

(a) Cui bono is the double dative; cui being the dative of the person, and bono of the purpose or result.

"To whom is it for a good ?"

(b) The construction of this might be-Hæc nos non fecimus neque ego neque tu. Showing that fecimus agrees with nos understood.

(c) "Noted for his fatherly feeling towards his brothers," is the translation. Animi paterni are in the genitive after causâ or some such word understood.

The answer to the question "Within what time?" is expressed by the ablative alone or by the ablative with a preposition. The answer to the question "How long before or after?" by the ablative, with ante or post after it (sometimes the accusative). The duration of time is put in the accusative without a preposition.

VII. French Language.

Celle, cheveu, mal, faux, celui, cou, bétail.

Quelle, mienne, grecque, coite, brève, molle, basse, dissoute.

Il, le, masc. Elle, la, fem. Lui, se, soi, en, y,

both genders.

Ils, eux, masc. plur. Elles, fem. plur. Les, leur, se, en, y, both genders.

Allant, allé; naissant, né; résolvant, résolu and résous; craignant, craint; connaissant, connu; plaisant, plû.

Ce, demonstrative pronoun mas. sing., qui, relative pronoun; importe, third person sing. of importer, neuter verb first conj.; à, preposition governing l'homme; l' from le (e omitted before h mute), def. article, mas.; homme, noun mas.; o' (from ce, e omitted before a vowel), demonstrative pronoun; est, third per. sing. pres. indic. of the verb être, to be; remplir, verb active,

pres. infin. second conj.; ses, possessive adjective (pronoun) qualifying devoirs; devoirs, noun common, mas., plural.

(a) They cannot do without me.

(b) With regard (or reference) to what did you do that? (c) They are not pleased with you, far from it.

Le 18 Juin 1815 fut livrée la bataille de Waterloo, bataille à jamais mémorable, et dans laquelle les armées Anglo-Prussiennes, sous les ordres respectifs du Duc de Wellington et du Maréchal Blücher, défirent complètement les Français. Ce combat célèbre sera considéré, dans les annales d'Angleterre, comme une des plus nobles preuves de la bravoure Anglaise, et comme un témoignage des grands talents militaires du Duc de Wellington.

CHAPTER V.

REVIEW OF THE MAY (1872) PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION FOR SOLICITORS. WE feel ourselves in a position to congratulate candidates on the comparatively easy nature of the examination. There were certainly, as usual, some peculiar questions; but it is now an admitted fact that peculiarities are inseparable from this ordeal. As we append very copious answers, a criticism of the various papers may seem unnecessary; but still as it is our custom to give our opinion of each paper, we shall certainly not omit to do so on this occasion. We can safely say that we anticipated the majority of the questions, and those of our pupils who have tolerably retentive memories have nothing to fear; indeed, we believe that all of them ought to and will succeed. It always evinces bad taste when one "sounds his own trumpet;" but as our younger readers derive advan tage from the experience we ourselves gain while attending to our "flock," perhaps an occasional reference to the latter may not be wholly out of place. As we are continually receiving letters from candidates asking for sample questions, we beg to say that back numbers of this Magazine, containing the questions and answers, may always be obtained of our publishers.

English Composition.] No fault can be found with the subjects for the English theme. We have written so much on this subject that additional remarks, at all events at present, would be superfluous. We, however, recommend candidates not to forget to insert separate matter in separate paragraphs, to write neatly and think over the subject

before they attempt to write, for there is seldom time to copy the work. If a candidate can write very quickly he may perhaps be able to do. There are innumerable suggestions we could make, not only in this but in all the subjects, but we need scarcely remark that it would be impracticable to make them here.

English Language.] This paper is apparently rather easy. Question 1 is very simple, but the latter part, though simple, probably confused those candidates who were sent up from the public schools, where it is well known most attention is paid to the classical languages. We have given exhaustive answers in order that the information may be made as clear as possible to the reader. We can safely say that the majority of the questions given in this paper were to be found in that which we set our own pupils for the usual preliminary test examination.

English History.] This paper in some respects is also easier than usual. Strange to say, we had dictated the answer to the first question only a few days before the examination, and our pupils, after the examination, remarked that one would imagine that we had set the question. The questions admit of very general answers, and we. have therefore stated every fact necessary to make them complete. Doubtless shorter answers would be accepted by the examiners, but, as we have pointed out before, it would be useless to supply such meagre information that candidates would have to resort to books to complete them.

Geography.] This paper is also shorter and easier than those recently set at this examination. Probably question 2 was rather perplexing to some, althongh on consideration it does not appear by any means difficult. Our pupils, supported at almost all points, were not at all surprised to find question 3 as to tracing the course of rivers, for the note books with which we supplied them contained courses, &c. of the principal European rivers, besides other valuable information.

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Arithmetic.] The questions are of the same character as before. They require more common sense" than a knowledge of difficult rules. No doubt our younger readers would like explanations appended to the sums, but as it is our labours are extremely great.

Elementary Knowledge of Latin.] The questions are only such as one would expect to see in a paper purporting to be based on an elementary knowledge of Latin. We have no doubt that the "public school men" soon answered these questions. Perhaps no paper admits of special tuition more than this-hence students seldom complain of the Elementary Latin. We again see questions on gender, the genitive plurals, comparison of adjectives, and principal parts of the verbs.

French.] There is nothing extraordinary in this paper. The first three questions are exceedingly easy. The Examiner had not given a sentence to parse for some time, and we hail this addition with pleasure. It is certainly very strange that the piece given for the translation refers more particularly to the Duke of Wellington, whose history forms a prominent feature in the synopsis of leading men inserted in this number of the Magazine.

CHAPTER VI.

CORRESPONDENCE.

The Editor will be glad to receive COMMUNICATIONS from students and others. They must be addressed "Care of the Publishers," and will, in every instance, receive the attention they merit.

CANDIDATE.-You will find the example in No. 2 of this Magazine.

G. B. C.-Tout ce qui

Tout ce que

Whatever.