Calendar: 1883-1884 Page 644

640 GENERAL LITERATURE AND SCIENCE He looks as if he had no good conscience When will the prisoner be set at liberty He has already been set at liberty During the eruption from the crater of the Tombora in Sumbawa the darkness occasioned by the ashes in the daytime was so profound that nothing equal to it was ever witnessed in the darkest night of Java Several of the British forests which are now marshes were cut down at different periods by order of the English parliament because they harboured wolves and outlaws Thus the Welsh woods were cut down and burnt in the reign of Edward as were many of those in Ireland by Henry II to prevent the natives from harbouring in them and harassing his troops Grammatical Questions Give the rules illustrated by examples for the use of the conditional mood in German What part of the verb may sometimes be employed instead of the usual imperative Give the primary and figurative significations of the auxiliary verbs of mood foilen-rcoflm-mogen- biirfen How must verbs of choosing selecting consider- ing arc be construed in German Give examples By means of what prefix can intransitive verbs be changed into transitive ones Ί When is the preposition of rendered in German by the genitive case when by ft on and when is it not expressed at all Give examples and state when the Saxon genitive is used with proper names of persons