Take either 2 or 3.

2. Write in succession either the numbers or the syllables for all the notes of either of the following melodies, separating the measures in your

answer:

3. Sing either of the above melodies to the examiner.

(e)

STATE NORMAL SCHOOLS.

SEPTEMBER 10 AND 11, 1901.

I. LANGUAGES.

The candidate will take English and one only of the remaining languages, - Latin, French and German. Time for the entire paper, two hours.

ENGLISH.

Reading and Practice.

1. Tell what books of the following list you have read: Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice; Pope's Iliad, Books I., VI., XXII. and XXIV.; The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers in The Spectator; Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield; Coleridge's The Ancient Mariner; Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans; Tennyson's The Princess; George Eliot's Silas Marner; Lowell's The Vision of Sir Launfal.

Add to the list other books of literary merit which you have read.

2. Write a letter to the principal of the normal school about your study and appreciation of one of the following novels or poems:

Scott's Ivanhoe.

Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans.
Coleridge's The Ancient Mariner.
Lowell's The Vision of Sir Launfal.

Write freely

Limit the letter to two or three points of your own choice. and naturally, as if to a friend. Assume that the principal would be pleased to say of your letter: Its form is excellent and its English creditable. Its treatment of the points chosen is intelligent so far as it goes. There are signs, moreover, that the writer has some measure of appreciation or relish for the work he is considering.

Hints: How you studied the work in school, what it is about, its main purpose, spirit or lesson, the emotions to which it appeals, a character or two in it that you like, some traits of the author's style or workmanship, etc.

3. Write briefly upon one only of the topics (a), (b), (c) and (d).

If the candidate, instead of writing as directed under this number, chooses to offer an exercise book properly certified by the teacher as containing fair specimens of the candidate's written work in connection with his school study of the English prescribed for Reading and Practice, let the examiner's attention be called to the fact.

(a) The story of the Iliad,-who told it, when and where it was told, what it is about, and the special themes of the four books prescribed for reading.

Or this: :

Pope's translation of the Iliad, retains and some which it misses.

some features of the original which it

(b) The historical period of The Last of the Mohicans as contrasted with that of Ivanhoe.

"I wed to thee! I bound by precontract

Your bride, your bondslave! not tho' all the gold

That veins the world were pack'd to make your crown,

And every spoken tongue should lord you. Sir,

Your falsehood and yourself are hateful to us;

I trample on your offers and on you;

Begone: we will not look upon you more.”

- The Princess.

(d) Silas Marner,· either the different stories which are brought together to make up its plot or the two events that so influenced the chief actor in the story as to change the course of his subsequent life.

Study and Practice.

4. Tell what books of the following list you have critically studied: Shakespeare's Macbeth; Milton's Lycidas, Comus, L'Allegro and Il Penseroso; Burke's speech on Conciliation with the Colonies; Macaulay's Essays on Milton and Addison.

Add to the list other books of literary merit which you have critically studied.