SOME EXAMINATION PAPERS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1976, 28 April 1885, Page 2

SOME EXAMINATION PAPERS.

A correspondent writes to the Pall Mali GazetteA friend of mine who laf\ summer visited one of the largest prijl schools in England to examine the M i'\ ' as to their knowledge of EngliJWffi), 1 and literature showed me his amusing replies which he received.j 'fjiji', replies are no wiser than those whiffo 14i reported in the current number tof ii(i' V " Journal of Educate by the exaWnet \ for the London Sohool'Board schblarsjhipsj I The best of them are the following£ \ Simon de Montfort was (a) a Komgn : Catholic gentleman who betrayed the I gunpowder Plot; (b) a French poet who 'r was beloved by Maiy Queen of Scots, and ! who was killed'in her presence by Lord I Bodmin ; (c) Bishop of Bayeux, and one ' of the bravest followers of' William the I. Conqueror, who ij fell at the Battle-of)l Hastings, <md his'tomb is still to be igeliV at Battle Abbeyjti Suffolk. 2, The (flief: V causes of the resolution of 1688 werenhe ; usurpation of th&Duke of Monmouth, the ; rightful heir to the Crown, who, after i winning the Battle of Edgehill in War- 1 wicksliire, was proclaimed King by the j title of Williain IV; (b) because Charles I'; : .. would levy ship-money and tax windows, : and the Duke of Marlborough drove him i out of the country. 3. The chief Eng- ' ■; gliah poets of the Reatoretion wedftknong '• others) " Hugh de Bras, Watts W Lord j Spencer, who was so immoral , that hi3 c r puetr>' book had to be burnt by the com- 1 . mon hangman, arid his ears cut off by tho ' . pillory on Tower Hill." 4. By way of ! reply to -an invitation to give a brief sketch of the life and works of Milton one boy wrote: "Milton, when lie was young, was a soldier in the Roundhead army, and when ho grew old he repented and wrote •. 'Paradise Lost,' and went blind ;' but Charles 11. dug up his body and. hung it in chains at Old Bailley." The bpys examined were between fourteen and sixteen years of age, and were, for tho most part, sons of professional men holding good positions. The sheaf of answers culled fromihe recent examination for the London Scjool Board scholarships, and given in the new number of the " Journal of Education" is the best-thingof the kind there has been for a long time. "By what right," the examiner asked, "does the Queen sit on the throne 1" to which the answers were —(a) "Because' Prince Albert majfedher, and she was the daughter of the WKing, and grand-daughter of Rollo, the Sea King." (b) "She was the only daughtor of Edward VI., who was her father, son of Edward V;" (c) "She won a great battle." The play of imagination here helps to explain the question of the precocious schoolboy tho other day. What, indeed, would history be without its kings and queens} Equally refreshing is . tho complete.freedom from any .prematura political taint displayed in'ssuch answers as this.: " A Conservative is a n.an who looks down on Liberals; a Liberals man, one who spends the people's money freely." Or, still better, -"Manhood suffrage is the state of suffering to which all mankind are bom," Tho request to explain "The child is father to the man 1 ' showed; indeed, on the' part of one candidate, rather too early a bias to those obstinate questionings which lead to soepticism. "Every one.knowsj" hajsaid, "nearly oveiy one, that Adam is'ouramimon parent, but' he couldn't.iiaye, been such if hot boen- a child first, though wo are-told so in the Bible." But the other answer redresses the balance by showing that shades of tho prison-houso do not close Very hardly on all our poor [children.. "The law is such," this candidate answered, "that the father can't do nothing to his own boy." £ AMERICAN CO.'S HOP BITTERS ARE THE PUREST AND BEST BITTERS EVER MADE. They are coinpo|inded from Hops, Malt, Bucljpi Jfanrfrake,'and Dandelion —the oldest, ~ best, and most valuable medicines in the world, and contain afl the best and ni'p&t curative properties of all other remedies! hqing the greatest Blood Puriflei;, Liver Regulator, apji Life and Health Restoring Agent'on earth. No disease or ill health can long exist whero they are uses, so varied and perfect aro their operations, They give "new life and vigor to t]ig aged and infirm. To all wliosje employ: ments cause irregularity of the bpwefs pp urinary qrga]i§, qr who rrnuire an Appe r tizer, Tonic and Mild Stimulant, Aimij can Co.'s Hop Bitters are iiiyaJuHik being highly curative, tqnic and ing, without intoxicating. i• 1 Remember, American Hop Bitter? ja no vile, drqgged drunken lptruw, hut the Purest and Best Medicine over tinule, Try the Bittern to-day, Get at Ohemlliti or Druggists. Beware of linjhfcionii, Genuine has Dr Soke's name Mn in bottle.

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