WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY. -1907

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Gilbert Sykes Blakely

Allow one hour for each division of the examination.

Consider what you will say, and in what order you will say it, before you begin to write at all.

Revise your work, and, if time permits, make a clean copy of it after revision.

No candidate will be accepted in English whose work is notably defective in spelling, punctuation, idiom, or division into paragraphs.

I—Reading and Practice

One especial purpose of this division of the examination is to test the ability of the candidate to express his thoughts in clear, connected sentences, properly combined in at least three paragraphs. Single, detached sentences will not meet the requirements.

Select three of the following topics for discussion. Be accurate and avoid generalities.

  1. Give an account of Sir Roger at the play.
  2. Describe Arthur's last battle and the last scene in The Passing of Arthur.

    1. Under what circumstances and by whom are the following lines uttered?

      The man that hath no music in himself,
       Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
       Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils.
    2. Outline the action from this point to the end of the play.
  4. Goldsmith's life on the Continent after he left Dublin.
  5. Describe the place, the cause, and the results of the combat in The Lady of the Lake.
  6. Give an account of the part of Gawain in Lancelot and Elaine.
  7. Describe the attack on the castle of Front-de-Boeuf.

    1. Explain the following lines in every detail:

      I hear it by the way; but I will send:
       There's not a one of them, but in his house
       I keep a servant fee'd. I will to-morrow
       (And betimes I will) unto the weird sisters.
    2. What results from this resolution?

II—Study and Practice

Discuss fully each topic in order as far as you go, even though you may not finish the paper.

  1. Outline the part played by Casca, and quote any of his notable sayings.
  2. Show in some detail what difficulties Burke finds in the attempt to change the spirit of the Colonists.

  3. Who utters the following lines; to whom, where, and why?

    Come lady, while Heaven lends us grace,
     Let us fly this cursed place,
     Lest the sorcerer us entice,
     With some other new device.
  4. Give an account of Johnson's friendship with the Thrales.
  5. Macaulay's defence of Milton's political career.

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SERIES OF ENGLISH TEXTS

General Editor, HENRY VAN DYKE, Princeton University

Addison's Sir Roger de Coverley Papers (Winchester) $0.40
Burke's Speech on Conciliation (MacDonald) .35
Byron, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats and Browning—Selections (Copeland & Rideout) .40
Carlyle's Essay on Burns (Mims) .35
Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Woodberry) .30
Emerson's Essays—Selections (Van Dyke) .35
Franklin's Autobiography (Smyth) .40
Gaskell's Cranford (Rhodes) .40
George Eliot's Silas Marner (Cross) .40
Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, and The Deserted Village (Tufts) .45
Irving's Sketch Book—Selections (Sampson) .45
Lamb's Essays of Elia (Genung) .40
Lincoln, Selections from (Draper) .35
Macaulay's Essay on Addison (McClumpha) .35
Essay on Milton (Gulick) .35
Life of Johnson (Clark) .35
Addison and Johnson. One Volume. (McClumpha-Clark) .45
Milton's Minor Poems (Jordan) .35
Scott's Ivanhoe (Stoddard) .50
Lady of the Lake (Alden) .40
Shakespeare's As You Like It (Demmon) .35
Julius CÆsar (Mabie) .35
Macbeth (Parrott) .40
Merchant of Venice (Schelling) .35
Stevenson's Inland Voyage, and Travels with a Donkey (Blakely) .40
Tennyson's Idylls of the King—Selections (Van Dyke) .35
Princess (Bates) .40
Washington's Farewell Address, and Webster's First Bunker Hill Oration (Pine) .30

AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY

(S. 99)

COMPOSITION-RHETORIC

By STRATTON D. BROOKS, Superintendent of Schools, Boston, Mass., and MARIETTA HUBBARD, formerly English Department, High School, La Salle, Ill. Price, $1.00

The fundamental aim of this volume is to enable pupils to express their thoughts freely, clearly, and forcibly. At the same time it is designed to cultivate literary appreciation, and to develop some knowledge of rhetorical theory. The work follows closely the requirements of the College Entrance Examination Board, and of the New York State Education Department.

¶ In Part One are given the elements of description, narration, exposition, and argument; also special chapters on letter-writing and poetry. A more complete and comprehensive treatment of the four forms of discourse already discussed is furnished in Part Two. In each part is presented a series of themes covering these subjects, the purpose being to give the pupil inspiration, and that confidence in himself which comes from the frequent repetition of an act. A single new principle is introduced into each theme, and this is developed in the text, and illustrated by carefully selected examples.

¶ The pupils are taught how to correct their own errors, and also how to get the main thought in preparing their lessons. Careful coordination with the study of literature and with other school studies is made throughout the book.

¶ The modern character of the illustrative extracts can not fail to interest every boy and girl. Concise summaries are given following the treatment of the various forms of discourse, and toward the end of the book there is a very comprehensive and compact summary of grammatical principles. More than usual attention is devoted to the treatment of argument.

AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY

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