Answer to the Fifth Question.-For the words in Italics Singer proposes the addition of I before am, and the turning of have into true, and read

-that I am true and will be.

This spoils the metre.

Collier changes am into aim; that does not make very good sense. The original reading requires no alteration; it makes good sense and perfectly grammatical-for if an ellipsis that is familiar to Shakespear and other writers, be supplied, the part in italics will be

That this is the correct reading may he proved by the following quotations, in all which an ellipsis of the kind above mentioned has been introduced. In the preceding speech of Wolsey he says

In All's well that ends well, Lafean says

"I shall speak better of you Monseaur than you have or will deserve, &c."

Lastly-Bolingbroke says

"This dedication will serve for any book that is, has or will be published."

SHASHI BHOOSHUN BHADHOORY,

Hindu College, First Class.

Answer to the Sixth Question.-He was a man of boundless haughtiness always holding himself equal to princes. One that by overloading the kingdom with taxes, hampered it. With him the crime of Simon Magus (the selling of spiritual livings) was fair dealing. His own ideas and opinions only (and nothing else) guided or ruled his conduct. Even in the royal presence he was accustomed to speak falsehood-and was always hypocritical both in the letter and spirit of what he said. He was never compas

sionate except to those whom he wished to crush. His promises were like his former self-great; their performance like his present self-nothing.

MOHENDRO LAUL SHOME,

Hindu College, First Class.

Answer to the Seventh Question.-Collars of S. S., originally formed a part of the royal livery and appear to have been first instituted by Henry IV. whose title was Souvraine;" and the name of these collars was probably suggested by the initial letter of his motto. The privilege of wearing them was, afterwards, extended to all persons of a certain dignity, and were not, like the cross and the garter, confined to a particular order. They are now worn by the three chief justices of England, the lord mayor of London, and the lord mayor of Dublin.

MOHENE MOHUN ROY,

Hindu College, Second Class.

Answer to the Eighth Question.—The allusion here is to the two colleges which Wolsey founded, the one in Ipswich, the other in Oxford. The college at Ipswich was abolished soon after his death. The other college, viz., Christ's College which he established in the University of Oxford, exists to this day. There is a double meaning in the word "Christendom." It may mean the whole Christian world or Christian Europe, as it generally does: or it may have a reference to the name of the College which he founded, viz., Christ's College. The word dome literally means a house; therefore Christiandom-means the house of Christ or Christ's College. RAJENDER NATH MITTRE,

Ferdinand of Arragon and Isabella of Castile by their marriage united the whole of Spain under one head- they had two daughters Joanna who was tinged with insanity and married to Philip Archduke of Austria and son of the Emperor Maximillion; the issue of this marriage was Charles V. The other daughter of Ferdi

nand and Isabella was Katharine married to Prince Arthur and afterwards to Henry.

MOHENDRO LAUL SHOME,

Hindu College, First Class.

MILTON: PARADISE LOST.

Answer to the Tenth Question.-This inimitable production of the greatest epic poet of England is written in "Heroic Blank Verse." The Versification however is very varied; sometimes beginning with a trochee, at others ending with a spondee; but generally it may be said to be composed of five iambuses.

Alexandrine Measure consists of six iambuses; and is so called from the fact of the ancient romances, chronicling the deeds of Alexander the Great, being written in that measure, We have an instance of it in Pope's Essay on Criticism.

"And like a needless Alexandrine end the song."

We have also another instance:

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"He lifted up his hand that back again did start."

Shakespeare in his Henry VIII. has the following one :

"By learned approbation of the judges, if I am.”

It is so called

Service-Metre-consists of seven iambuses.
from the fact of the psalms being written in that measure.
We have an instance of it in Sir John Suckling:

"But one request I make him that sits the skies above
That I were freely out of debt as I am out of love."

Elegiacs-consist of four line-stanzas in alternate rhyme. Gray's Elegy is written in that rhyme.

Riding Rhyme-consists of two Heroic couplets. It is so called from the fact of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, supposed to be told by a party riding to Canterbury being written in that rhyme.

Pope's Essay on Criticism is written in that rhyme.

Spenserian Stanza-consists of eight lines closed by an Alexandrine. The rhyme in the Spenserian Stanza may vary. It is so named from Spenser's having written the Fairy Queen in that

measure.

RADHAGOBIND Doss,

Hindu College, First Class.

Answer to the Eleventh Question.-(a) An innumerable host of angelic beings deprived of their native Heaven on account of his guilt and thrust out of never dying glory for his rebellion; yet dutiful they remained though with their brightness faded; so when the aerial lightning has blasted the wooded oaks or hilly pines; with scorched crests their towering height though reft of foliage, stands on the steril heath.

(b)

"Or why

Upon this blasted heath you stop our way
With prophetic greeting."-Macbeth.

MOHENDRO LAUL SHOME,

Hindu College, First Class.

Answer to the Twelfth Question.-Milton was Latin Secretary under Cromwell.

MOHENDRO LAUL SHOME,

Hindu College, First Class.

Answer to the Thirteenth Question.-The Olympian games were instituted by Hercules in honor of Jupiter. The Grecian youth from every state assembled on these occasions and exhibited their skill in various ways. Among these, the races-horse and chariot-were the principal. The goal was of the form of a horse shoe and the charioteers wheeled round it as fast as they could-so that their aim was to drive as near the goal as they could do without being crushed, a catastrophe which often happened. Hence the allusion "shun the goal." The Pythian games were instituted in honor of Apollo by Theseus. The Olympian games were held at the interval of four years, and the Greeks reckoned their time by it-as the 1st, 2nd or 3rd year of the 23rd 24th or such Olympiad.

MOHENDRO LAUL SHOME,
Hindu College, First Class.

YOUNG.

Answer to the Fourteenth Question.-Young's style appears to me a very laboured one. It has been justly remarked by Mr. Campbell that Young's ingenuity in the "false sublime" is very

great. In his poetry we find the inspiration of a mind fallen out with the world, viewing every thing in a melancholy mood and describing every thing with the gloomy colours of morbid sensibility. We do not find in his writings that happy felicity of diction which characterizes the style of Pope, nor that "full majestic march" and vigorous freedom we meet with in Dryden. His genius as it is observed by Dr. Johnson was the "inspiration of sullen discontent." His morose mind finds nothing worthy of desire in this world and finds this life as one uninterrupted tissue of disasters and sufferings. His vein for satirical writing however was excellent as we find in his poem on the "Universal Passion" and his cutting invective on Voltaire.

DWARKANAUTH MITTRE, Hooghly College, First Class.

Answer to the Fifteenth Question.-Pultney was a famous statesman of the reign of Anne and George I. He began his career as a whig and ended it as a tory. In the beginning he was the friend and partner of Robert Walpole-so much so that when Walpole was sent to the Tower he strongly fought for him in the parliament and resigned office with him. When Walpole returned to office-he offered Pultney a barontage instead of an office. He consented to take the very subordinate post of the Cofferer of the Household in expectation of getting something better. He remained quiet for two years in their expectation.

But Walpole did not like to have him for his partner in the Ministry. "He had" says Lord Mahon in his excellent history of the reign of the Georges "two great vices in the eyes of Walpole, ability and independence, which unfitted him for office-for Walpole was determined to admit no noâb near the throne." When his hopes were thus frustrated, he entered into a league with Bolingbroke and headed that dreadful opposition which brought down Walpole and in its shock caused even the monarchy to shake. As Earl of Bath he reaped only infamy and lost all the glory which he had won as Puliney. He is the Curio of Akenside. His avarice ruined him. His eloquence is spoken of in terms of enthusiastic admiration by the writers of the age.

MOHENDRO LAUL SHOME,

Hindu College, First Class.