2. What is Paper Money? Is it really money ? What is inconvertible paper money? What are its characteristics? What determines its value?

3. State the case for Bi-metallism and against it.

4. In Great Britain a policy of Reciprocity has been frequently recommended as a remedy for industrial depression. Explain what the so-called policy means, and shew how far, if at all, it is a remedy.

5. Criticise the following propositions:

(a) A high rate of interest is not an evil, but the cure of an evil.

(b) Rent tends continually to increase with the growth of the wealth and population of a country.

(c) Trades unions cannot in the long run succeed in raising wages.

6. State and criticise the canons of taxation laid down by Adam Smith.

7. The National Debt of France caused the Revolution.

The prosperity of England has grown with her National Debt.

How can these two statements be reconciled?

8. Define Invention. What are the principal circumstances affecting its progress? Why is slave labour never inventive?

9. "The history of what man has accomplished in this world is at bottom the history of the great men who have worked there." Comment on this dictum.

10. State and criticise Mill's fundamental propositions respecting Capital.

SCHOOL OF ENGLISH, FRENCH, AND
GERMAN.

ENGLISH.

FIRST PAPer.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Give a brief account of the English works ascribed to King Alfred. In what dialect were they written? Mention any other English dialects used for literary purposes, and some works written in them.

2. In what different forms is Piers the Plowman found? Give the probable date of each. What social grievances does the author denounce? Does he find any support from Chaucer?

3. Describe the metrical system of "Piers the Plowman," and name some other poems written in the same style.

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4. What great writers immediately preceded or were contemporary with Chaucer in France and Italy? Trace briefly their influence on his works.

5. How does Chaucer describe the Man of Law? Who has been supposed to be intended by this character, and what are the grounds for the supposition?

6. From what sources did Chaucer derive the materials for the Squire's Tale? What other English poets have mentioned the subject?

7. Who were Balthazar, Boece, Catoun, Cecilie, Gatesden, Hugelino, Ypocras? What information does Chaucer give concerning each of them?

Where were the following places, and why were they remarkable? - Galis, Gootlond, Saluces, Surrye, Tramassene, Walsyngham.

8. What were the occupations of the following:Bedel, Franklin, Maunciple, Pardoner, Sompnour, Squire ?

9. What old inflexions are represented in Chaucer by the final e? Give examples.

10. Explain the following passages, giving brief notes where required :

(a) These pestilences were for pure synne.

(b) I can hold louedayes.

(c)

Which a pardoun peres hadde.

(d) His herbergh, and his mone, his lodemenage. (e) Yet saugh I brent the schippes hoppesteres.

(f) Him mette a wonder drem, agayn the day. (g) O firste moeuyng cruel firmament.

(h) The foure spirites and the bodies seuene. (i) The vale best discovereth the hill.

11. Give some account of the authors by whom the sonnet was introduced into English literature.

12. (a) Give a summary of Bacon's remarks on Usury, with any comments you think

requisite.

(b) Why are selfish people likely to make bad public servants?

ENGLISH.

SECOND PAPer.

The Board of Examiners.

1. What variations from history did Shakspeare permit himself in King John?

freedom justified?

How is this

2. What deficiencies have been found in the play King Richard II., especially as compared with later plays?

3. Give your own estimate of the character of Beatrice. Compare her with Rosalind.

4. Comment on the forest in As You Like It, and on Shakspeare's idea of rural happiness.

5. Which side do you take in the perennial controversy-Was Hamlet mad?

6. What lines from King Lear might be quoted as teaching us the author's drift?

7. For what reasons can Coriolanus not be considered a flawless character?

8. Write, under heads, a summary of the argument of the Areopagitica.

9. In which of Milton's Sonnets does he most completely express his own feelings or mood?

10. Contrast Milton's earliest and latest poems.

11. Write a short account of Ben Jonson, of Herrick, and of Dryden.

12. Describe briefly the structure of a Sonnet.

ENGLISH.

THIRD PAPER.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Point out the chief merits and the chief defects of Dr. Johnson's methods of criticism, giving examples to illustrate your answer.