Calendar: 1885-1886 Page 471

CIVIL SERVICE CLASSES 465 Class Clerkships in the India Office are the same and similar scheme has been applied to Outport Clerkships though it is now under revision Handwriting highest marks attainable 400 Orthography 400 Arithmetic 400 Copying MS to test accuracy 200 Indexing or Docketing 200 Digesting Returns into Summaries 200 English Composition 200 Geography 200 English History 200 Book-keeping 200 There is Preliminary Examination in the first three of the above subjects Books required Brook-Smith's Arithmetic Macmillan 4s 6d Hunter's Self Instruction in Book-Keeping re- quired by beginners Longmans 2s Hamilton and Ball's Book-Keeping required by advanced students Macmillan 2s King's College Indexing Id to be had at the College by Students only Curtis's Outlines of Geography Simpkin Qd Richardson's Smaller Modern Geography Murray 25 Gd Curtis's Outlines of English History Simpkin Dr Smith's Smaller History of England Murray 3s Gd King's College Digesting Returns into Summaries 4d to be had at the College by Students only Books recommended Spelling Vocabulary Chambers 6d Abbott's "How to Write Clearly for composition Seeley Is 6d Mackay's Physiography Blackwood Is Gd Collins's Progressive Atlas 18 6d King's College Tots Gd to be had at the College by Students only Inquiries respecting this class should be addressed to the Secretary King's College or to Mr Braginton Edgcumbe House Friends' Road Croydon Men Clerhships Candidates must be between 17 and 20 About nine-tenths of these Appointments are in London Subject to the convenience of the public service successful candidates are allowed choice of locality and choice of offices Men Clerks rise by triennial increments of 15 from 95 to 250 in seven-hour offices and from 80 to 200 in six hour offices The most competent of them may receive extra pay not exceeding 100 year They may after ten years9 service be promoted exceptionally to the Higher