ward from the point of view chosen. (ii) Point out a number of expressions that convey the idea of swift physical movement. (iii) Select expressions that suggest excitement. (iv) Show that there is a climax in the development of the scene. (v) Show how the writer blends the beauty of nature with the description of the hunt.

2. Discuss the elements in the foregoing description that give it the qualities of (i) vividness, (ii) animation. IV. Composition.-I. Describe, in the style of Kingsley's Fox-hunt, any sport that you have taken part in. Seek to render the interest and excitement of the sport.

(1) Trout Fishing. (2) Sailing a Cat-boat. (3) Riding. (4) Birds-nesting. (5) Tobogganing. (6) Coasting. (7) Skating. (8) Snow-shoeing. (9) Canoeing. (10) Duck-hunting. (11) Rabbit-hunting. (12) Crabbing. 2. Describe the hunting-scene below.

LESSON LX.

I. Memorize:-BEFORE WATERLOO-FROM "CHILDE

HAROLD."

And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed,
The mustering squadron, and the clattering car,
Went pouring forward with impetuous speed,
And swiftly forming in the ranks of war;
And the deep thunder, peal on peal afar;
And near, the beat of the alarming drum
Roused up the soldier ere the morning star;

While thronged the citizens with terror dumb,

Or whispering with white lips—“The foe! They come! They come!"

And wild and high the "Cameron's gathering" rose,

The war note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills

Have heard, and heard, too, have her Saxon foes:

How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills

Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills
Their mountain pipe, so fill the mountaineers

With the fierce native daring which instils

The stirring memory of a thousand years;

And Evan's, Donald's fame rings in each clansman's ears!

II. Theme:-A BOAT-RACE.

-Lord Byron.

In the boat-races of the English colleges, the boats start, because of the narrowness of the river, at equal distances behind each other. Each boat strives to overtake the boat ahead, to touch it with the prow, making "a bump."

There it comes, at last-the flash of the starting gun. Long before the sound of the report can roll up the river the whole pent-up life and energy which has been held in leash, as it were, for the last six minutes, is let loose,

and breaks away with a bound and a dash which he who has felt it will remember for his life, but the like of which, will he ever feel again? The starting-ropes drop from the coxswains' hands, the oars flash into the water, and gleam on the feather, the spray flies from them, and the boats leap forward.

For the first ten strokes Tom was in too great fear of making a mistake to feel or hear or see. His whole soul was glued to the back of the man before him, his one thought to keep time, and get his strength into the stroke. But as the crew settled down into the wellknown long sweep, what we may call consciousness returned; and while every muscle in his body was straining, and his chest heaved, and his heart leaped, every nerve seemed to be gathering new life, and his senses to wake into unwonted acuteness.

"We must be close to Exeter!" The thought flashes into him, and it would seem into the rest of the crew at the same moment. For, all at once, the strain seems taken off their arms again; there is no more drag; she springs to the stroke as she did at the start.

The water rushes by, still eddying from the strokes of the boat ahead. Tom fancies now that he can hear their oars and the working of their rudder, and the voice of their coxswain. In another moment both boats are in the Gut, and a perfect storm of shouts reaches them from the crowd, as it rushes madly off to the left of the foot-bridge. Then Miller, motionless

as a statue till now, lifts his right hand and whirls the tassel round his head: "Give it her now, boys; six strokes and we are into them." Old Jarvis lays down. that great broad back, and lashes his oar through the water with the might of a giant, and the crew caught him up in another stroke, the tight new boat answers to the spurt, and Tom feels a little shock behind him, and then a grating sound, as Miller shouts: "Unship oars bow and three," and the nose of the St. Ambrose boat glides quietly up the side of the Exeter, till it touches their stroke oar.

-Thomas Hughes. Abridged from "Tom Brown at Oxford."

EXERCISE. (i) Show how the personal interest is brought into the description and how it increases the force of the description. (ii) Point out elements that conduce to the animation of the style.

Composition.-1. Describe, following the plan and method of the extract, any contest or game in which you have taken part or been greatly interested:-(1) A Baseball Match (or Football, Cricket, Basket-ball). (2) A Tennis Tournament. (3) A Spelling Match. (4) A Road Race of Bicycles. (5) A Road Race of Automobiles. (6) The Regatta at

This and the following group may be assigned for one exercise, the various themes being distributed, for the sake of interest and variety, to various pupils.

2. Describe one of the following scenes of action:(1) The Fire-engine on the Way. (2) Pursuit of a Thief. (3) Getting in the Harvest before Rain. (4) An Old-time Apple-paring (Quilting, Barn-raising, or other)

Bee. (5) Sugaring-off. (6) Threshing-day. (7) Logging on a Canadian River. (8) Salmon-fishing. (9) On Board a Gloucester Fishing-boat on the Banks-(see Kipling, 'Captains Courageous'). (10) Steamboats Racing.