Calendar: 1898-1899 Page 731

FACULTY OF ARTS xcix to give him the polish of society He had travelled it is true but the continental tour had been for poor Goldsmith little better than course of literary vagabondizing It had enriched his mind increased the benevolence of his heart and filled his memory with beautiful pictures but it had contributed little to fit him for'polite society His life in London had hitherto been struggle with mean cares and sad humiliations You scarcely can conceive he wrote some time previously to his brother iS how much eight years of disappointment anguish and study have worn me down Several more years had been added during which he had trod the lowly walks of life He had been tutor an apothecary's drudge bookseller's hack working hard for his daily bread It is wonderful how his heart retained its gentleness and kindness throughout these trials how his mind rose above the meannesses of poverty to which as he says he was compelled to submit He was nearly forty years of age when he published '4The Traveller and was lifted by it into celebrity Washington Irving It is not worth his while Why do you object to this plan It does not answer my purpose have done it for your sake It matters very little whether he is satisfied or not No news good news One good turn deserves another All's well that ends well Grammatical Questions Give the rules with examples for the formation of the plural 01 German substantives and of foreign nouns employed in German Mention some nouns which have double plural form which are employed in the plural only which are used in the singular although preceded by numeral denoting plurality Give tabular view with examples of the declension of adjectives What terminations do they take after in- definite numerals like etntfle mefyrere etc and after the personal pronouns ίφ bu etc Form adjectives by means of 4ίφ Λ ό bar tg en and state what these terminations denote