PRELIMINARY, INTERMEDIATE

AND

FINAL EXAMINATIONS

FOR SOLICITORS.

Mr. J. ERLE BENHAM

Takes his Classes daily at his NEW Chambers,

3, PUMP COURT, TEMPLE, E.C.

Preliminary Examination Journal

AND

STUDENT'S LITERARY MAGAZINE.

CHAPTER I.

SPECIAL EXAMINATION NOTICES.

Preliminary Examination for Solicitors.

PURSUANT to the Judges' orders, the next Preliminary Examination in General Knowledge will take place on Wednesday the 10th, and Thursday the 11th of February, 1875. In addition to the ordinary subjects (including an elementary knowledge of Latin), the Special Examiners have selected the following books in which candidates will be examined :—

In LATIN: Cicero, De Senectute, or Virgil, Eneid, Book VI. In GREEK: Sophocles, Antigone. In MODERN GREEK: BEVTOTNS Iσropía τñs ̓Αμερικῆς βιβλίον ζ. In FRENCH: Lamartine, Christophe Colomb, or Corneille, Horace. In GERMAN: Wilhelm Hauf, Das Wirthshaus im Spessart, or Schiller, Die Braut von Messina. In SPANISH: Cervantes, Don Quixote, cap. xv. to xxx. both inclusive, or Moratin, El Sí de las Niñas. In ITALIAN: Manzoni's I Promessi Sposi, cap. I. to VIII. both inclusive, or Tasso's Gerusalemme, 4, 5 and 6 cantos, and Volpe's Eton Italian Grammar.

Each candidate will be examined in one language only, according to his selection. Candidates will have the choice of either of the abovementioned works.

Intermediate Examination, under 23 & 24 Vict. c. 127, s. 9.

The works selected for the year 1875 are CHITTY on Contracts, chapters 1, 2 and 3, with the exception, in chapter 3, of section 1, relating to Contracts respecting Real Property; 8th or 9th edition. WILLIAMS on the Principles of the Law of Real Property; 8th, 9th or 10th edition. HAYNES' Outlines of Equity; 3rd edition. Candidates will also be examined in Mercantile Bookkeeping generally.

Final Examination for Solicitors.

Candidates will be examined in- Common and Statute Law and Practice of the Courts; Conveyancing; Equity and Practice of the Courts. These are optional:- Bankruptcy and Practice of the Courts; Criminal Law; and Proceedings before Magistrates.

Preliminary Examination for the Bar.

The Preliminary Examinations for the Bar are held every Saturday during each legal term, and once in the week next preceding each legal The subjects of Examination are-(a) The English language; (b) The Latin language; and (c) English history.

term.

For further particulars as to all the above Examinations, Forms of Notices, &c., see No. XI. of this Magazine.