Constitutional History.

1215-1307.

1. Sketch the events which led to the signing of Magna Charta. Give a summary of its contents.

2. General Paper, No. 1.

3. General Paper, No. 2, noticing especially the provisions of Oxford.

4. Give an account of the intervention of Prince Edward and the knighthood, 1259. What was its result?

5. Edward I. has been called "the English Justinian”; illustrate this statement.

6. General Paper, No. 4.

7. Describe the constitution of the Model Parliament. What earlier precedents are there for the Parliamentary Representation (i) of the shires, (ii) of the towns, (iii) of the lesser clergy?

8. Give a list of the various confirmations of the Charter from 1215 to 1297, noticing in each case (i) the circumstances attending the confirmation, (ii) any omission or change in the contents of the Charter.

9. General Paper, No. 5.

Political Economy.
Higher Local.

1. "A fall in the rate of interest is to be expected in the distant if not in the immediate future of the world's history." Why will the fall take place? What counteracting influences do we find to the fall of the rate of interest?

2. Give a short account of the trade gilds. Explain how at first they helped trade, and later hindered it. Compare them with the trades unions of to-day, and give a short history of our English trades unions.

3. "Great changes have lately taken place in the production of wealth, and these changes have been more marked in England than in any other country." Explain this fully.

4. Give some of the objections usually urged by socialistic writers against the present form of society, and comment on these objections.

Give also the objections commonly urged against socialism.

5. Senior Paper, No. 9. 6. Senior Paper, No. 6.

Political Economy.

Senior.

1. How can land be made more productive?

Suggest methods by which the land in England could be made more productive than it is at present. '

2. Enumerate some of the principal land tenures, and discuss their economic results.

3. Why do we pay rent? Why is land in Kansas cheaper than land in Hampshire?

4. Distinguish between real and nominal wages. "Nominal wages sometimes rise while real wages are falling." Give two imaginary cases in which this would happen.

5. Distinguish between value in use and value in exchange. Define price. Shew the connexion between the amount of commodities to be sold and the price at which they can be sold.

6. Distinguish between trade risks and personal risks. Why are the earnings of management so high? Why is it probable they will always remain high?

7. Higher Local Paper, No. 1.

8. Higher Local Paper, No. 2.

Point out

9. Write an essay on Money, its history, and use. the advantages and disadvantages of our present coinage. Compare our coinage with that of any other civilised nation.

Music.

Junior and Senior.

Sight paper, to be done without preparation. Time allowed-2 hours.

1. Why do the alto and tenor staves differ in pitch, although the same clef is used for each? How much higher in pitch is the C clef than the F clef, and the G clef than the C clef?

2. Write one octave ascending and descending of the major scale, and different forms of minor scale, of F sharp; also of the relative minor of the one and the relative major of the other.

3. Write one octave ascending and descending of the chromatic scales of E flat and B flat.

4. Give two examples of each of the following intervals, and say what each becomes by inversion: augmented second, minor sixth, diminished third, major fourth, minor seventh, augmented fifth, diminished seventh, minor third.

5. Define the following terms: chord, concord, discord, cadence, inversion, signature, bar, turn, shake, appoggiatura, acciacatura, score, accidental, triplet, slur, bind, accent.

6. Add treble, alto, and tenor parts to the following figured bass. Write the exercise in vocal score, and give the ground-notes of the chords on a separate stave below the bass stave:

7. Give the names and (if you can) the dates of six very great composers.

8. Give a short account of the life (and names of the principal works) of Handel, Beethoven, or Mendelssohn.

NOTE.-Juniors omit Question 8, and Seniors omit Question 7.

Music.

Higher Local.

1. Add treble, alto, and tenor parts to figured basses Nos. 73 and 75 in Macfarren's progressive exercises.

2. Write three exercises of three-part counterpoint to each of the canti fermi given in last month's paper, and place them in a different part in each exercise.

3. Give a detailed analysis of the first movement of Haydn's Pianoforte Sonata in E flat [Peters' Edition (148), No. 1].

Refer to the number of bars reckoned from the beginning, and point out all the modulations that occur, as well as analysing the form.

4. (i) What are couplers? What do you consider to be the merits and demerits of radiating and straight pedals?

(ii) How would you proceed to cure a break in a voice that you were training?

(iii) Give three fingerings of the chromatic scale, and state your opinion as to their relative usefulness.

NOTE.-Answer only one section of Question 4.

5. Write an essay on Church Music-Past and Present."

6. Harmonise the following melody in four parts without the aid of an instrument, and figure the bass:

Teachers' Examination.

THE THEORY, HISTORY, AND PRACTICE OF EDUCATION.

Special Subjects: The Life and Work of Pestalozzi; Milton's Tractate on Education.

1. Studies have been divided into Permanent and Progressive, and again into Knowledge and Art subjects. They may also be classed with regard to the mental faculty they specially cultivate. Discuss these classifications, and criticise the following table, which has been suggested as a specimen of a method of arriving at some definite conclusions with regard to educational values:

Per Permanent; Pro Progressive; K = Knowledge; A = Art; M = Memory; I = Imagination; 0 = Observation; C = Classification; J = Judgment.

2. What are the chief educational writings of Pestalozzi? Give an account of one of these.

3. What are the essential points to be observed in arranging a school-room? Describe a model class-room for twenty-five pupils, explaining its merits. What furniture and apparatus would you supply?

4. Prepare a time-table of school work and a time-table of home work for a girl of 12.