Calendar: 1876-1877 Page 594

594 GENERAL LITERATURE AND SCIENCE administrations in reference to the disputes with the American Colonists State briefly the views put forth by Burke in his two speeches on "American Taxation and "Conciliation with America What shape did the opposition in America assume In what parts of the country was it most bitter and why Suppos- ing the advice of Burke bad been adopted what chances were there that it would have produced the desired effect Mention the chief encounters between this country and the colonists during the progress of the war and the advantages to either side To what external circumstances were the Colonists indebted for its rapid termination after the defeat of Burgoyne What was the Coalition Ministry What led to its down- fall To what ministry did it succeed 10 Give brief account of the second Pitt What was his age at the time he was made premier What difficulties had he to encounter and how did he surmount them 11 Explain the affair of Wilkes and General Warrants 12 What were the successive steps taken by France in the Revolution to the death of Louis XVI in 1793 XXriL-jFrrnri Translate into French Modern literature is not mere copy of the ancients it has stamp and flavour of its own in the multiform and ever-chang- ing phases of our social state it has assumed corresponding diversity and flexibility and while the ancient literatures are now fixed and limited the modern are ever progressive becoming more abundant and more various with lapsing years The former are as lake beautiful but motionless and unchanging the latter are as river which swelled as it advances by tribn- taries on either hand rolls on in ever more majestic volume The spirit of the old has permeated our modern literatures and