Calendar: 1880-1881 Page 649

GENERAL LITERATURE AND SCIENCE 649 What was the Statute of Appeals Had Henry VIII any personal reason for wishing to see it enacted Contrast the reigns of Mary and Elizabeth in respect of their religious and of their national policy What were the chief causes of the popularity of Mary at her accession What was Benevolence On what occasions was it exacted during this period Write sketch of Drake's voyage Account for the growth of the influence of the House of Commons during the reign of Elizabeth Sketch the history of the negotiations for Spanish marriage in the reign of James 10 Give an account of the Monopolies XXIY -dfrend Language antf uUtnratuve Senior Division Traduisez en frangais In the Order of Jesus was concentrated the quintessence of the Catholic spirit and the history of the Order of Jesus is the history of the great Catholic reaction That order possessed itself at once of all the strongholds which command the public mind-of the pulpit of the press of the confessional of the academies Wherever the Jesuit preached the church was too small for the audience The name of Jesuit on title-page secured the circulation of book It was in the ears of the Jesuit that the powerful the noble and the beau- tif ul breathed the secret history of their lives It was at the feet of the Jesuit that the youth of the higher and middle classes were brought up from the first rudiments to the courses of rhetoric and philosophy Dominant in the south of Europe the great order soon went forth conquering and to conquer In spite of oceans and deserts of hunger and pestilence of spies and penal laws of dungeons and racks of gibbets and quartering-blocks Jesuits were to be