136. (P. 362-377.) Compare the first set of Papers, pp. 123–133, and sketch in chronological order the principal explorations of the Canadian NorthWest. Name the authors of: The Great Lone Land; From Ocean to Ocean; Journey to the Northern Ocean (1795); The Wild North Land; The NorthWest Passage by Land; Voyages to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans (1801); Newfoundland to Manitoba (1881); Saskatchewan and the Rocky Mountains (1875); Sketch of the North-West of America (1878); Manitoba: Its Infancy, Growth, and Present Condition (1882).

137. Relate the circumstances attending the formation of the Selkirk Settlement. Sketch a map of the lake-region of the North-West.

138. (P. 370-372.) Hiawatha appeared in October 1855. It is written in rhymeless 8-syllable trochaic verse, the metre used in Kalewala, the great national epic of Finland, fragments of which were published by Topelius in 1822, and extensive collections of runes were published by Lönnrot in 1835 and 1849. Longfellow has been accused of borrowing from the same source the general structure of his poem, but his rendering of Indian thought and feeling is undeniably close and faithful.

139. (P. 377-383.) What is Shakspeare's conception of Richard II.? Explain the grounds on which Coleridge ranks Richard II. as the first of Shakspeare's historical plays. Identify Barkloughly Castle. What dramatic suggestion is probably intended? Ben Jonson summed up Shakspeare's classical attainments in "Little Latin and less Greek;" how does this affect Shakspeare's use of Greek words? Account for the double form, apricock, apricot.

140. In Richard II. Act iii. scene 2, explain: How brooks your grace the air; plays fondly with her tears and smiles, in meeting; ere her native king; wandering with the antipodes; and there the antic sits; with self and vain conceit; humored thus.

141. (P. 384, 385.) When did the poet Moore visit Canada? what were the literary fruits of his tour? (see p. 477). Where is the scene of this poem laid, and what is his explanation of the spectre-ship?

142. (P. 385, 386.) Trace, after M'Gee, the distinctive features of the British Constitution. In whose reign was the House of Commons instituted? When was the system of governing by Cabinets introduced? (See English History.)

143. (P. 387-391.) What, according to Dr. Goldwin Smith, are the limitations of Cowper's poetry? How far does this estimate agree with the poet's own statement of his claims? Contrast Cowper's landscapes with Thomson's and with Pope's.

144. (391–393.) In Mrs. Browning's service-metre an amphibrach is substituted for an iambus in the seventh foot. Observe that a cæsural pause occurs after the fourth foot in each line, so that the lines may be broken up as follows::

"It is a place where poets crowned
May feel the heart's decaying-

It is a place where happy saints
May weep amid their praying," etc.

Resolve in this way any two of the stanzas into eight-line stanzas. Where is Cowper buried?

145. (P. 393-396.) What character forms the centre of interest in the Light of Asia? How far back in time is the scene carried?

146. (P. 396-399.) What were the charges against Warren Hastings; where were the proceedings conducted; who managed the impeachment for the Commons; and what was the result of the trial?

147. (P. 400.) Describe the characteristic qualities of Macaulay's style, and illustrate them from the preceding selection.

148. (P. 401-403.) Test Mr. M'Carthy's estimate of Lecky by the latter's portrait of Edmund Burke.

149. (P. 403-413.) What names has Milton given to his poems on Mirth and Contemplation; and how far is the latter correctly expressed in Milton's title? What inexactness has been pointed out in the poet's knowledge of birds and plants?

150. In L'Allegro explain: Hebe's cheek; unreproved pleasure; towred cities; rain influence; learned sock; explain the allusions in lines 145150.-Orpheus (two syllables). Discuss the construction of lines 45-48, and the difficulties that arise from a literal interpretation.

151. In Il Penseroso explain: Trickt and frounc't; Attic boy; ushered with a shower still; with minute drops from off the eaves; shadows brown that Sylvan loves; of pine or monumental oak; day's garish eye; the lines 147-150; to walk the studious cloister's pale; high embowed roof; massy proof; storied windows richly dight.

152. In Lycidas explain: the subject of the poem; the clear spirit doth raise; the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears; the glistring foil; perfet witness; the pilot of the Galilean lake; the iron shuts amain; scrannel pipes; the double reference in two handed engine at the door; return, Alpheus; Sicilian Muse; swart star sparely looks; rathe primrose; Doric lay.

153. (P. 413-419.) What modern author has admittedly influenced Mr. Ruskin's style? (See p. 87.) Explain the various names applied in different parts of Canada to the genial hazy weather that generally falls in the early weeks of November.-Keats' Ode depicts an English autumn as it presented itself to his fancy at Winchester towards the end of September, 1819. Write a study of the epithets used in this Ode, expanding the thought con

densed in each.

154. (P. 420-423.) Express in prose Swinburne's comparison of Carlyle and "George Eliot."

155. (P. 424-433.) Give an outline of De Quincey's Allegory, and of its meaning as applied to human life. On what grounds does Trollope pronounce Henry Esmond the best of Thackeray's novels? What are its special artistic merits?

156. (P. 433-450.) Notice briefly recent researches into the parasitical origin of disease.-Draw a sketch-map showing the basins of the Pelly and Mackenzie Rivers.—Give an account of the engagement at the Alma.

157. (P. 451-461.) Illustrate from Shelley what Rossetti means by "the poetical treatment of ordinary things.' What is known of Empedocles and his philosophy? Describe the most important of the recent applications of electricity, with the names of the discoverers. What is the meaning which underlies Landor's Allegory of Love, Sleep, and Death?

158. (P. 462-471.) The abrupt transition from the 4th to the 5th stanza of Wordsworth's Ode is accounted for by the poet's own statement, that the 4th was written in 1803, the 5th in 1806. In the 5th stanza there is a reference to that vague belief in a pre-existent state which, after floating in many minds for ages, took definite form in Plato's philosophy. -What is the earliest existing collection of Arthurian legends?

REVIEW.

Refer to their sources, giving context, the following quotations which occur in this READER :

1. "Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise

To scorn delights and live laborious days."

2. He prayeth best who loveth best."

3. "As darkness shows us worlds of light

We never saw by day!"

4. "When the stars twinkle through the loops of time."
5. "Nothing, if not critical."

6. "Laughter holding both his sides.".

7. "It beggared all description."

8. "Let's talk of graves, and worms, and epitaphs."

9. ""Tis like a pardon after execution."

10. "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”

11. "The third day comes a frost, a killing frost."
12. "Oh the pain, the bliss of dying!'

13. "

14. "

Along the cliff to fall, and pause and fall, did seem.”
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.",
15. "Pine or monumental oak."

16. Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting."
17. "Have swept the lines where beauty lingers."
18. "Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness!"
"Let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings."

19.

21. "Some unmeaning thing they call a thought."

23. Through the corridors of time."

24. "The dead but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule
Our spirits from their urns."

25.

"Some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there.'

26. Wind, and light, and wind, and cloud, and wind.”

27. Shadwell never deviates into sense."

28. "Married to immortal verse."

29. "The surge and thunder of the Odyssey."

30. "This is my own, my native land."

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33. Say is not this Thermopyla?"

34. "Barbaric pearl and gold."

35. "Water, water everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink."

36. "Warble his native wood-notes wild."
37. "Blest paper-credit! last and best supply
That lends corruption lighter wings to fly."
38. "Cold on Canadian hills or Minden's plain.”
39. "Build the lofty rhyme."

40. "Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness."
41. "I see before me the gladiator lie."

44. 'They learn in suffering what they teach in song."

45.

Arise, ye Goths, and glut your ire!"

46. "In the worst inn's worst room with mat half-hung."

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47. Hills peep o'er hills and Alps on Alps arise."

48. "The grave is not its goal."

49.

50.

"Wears his blushing honors thick upon him."

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"Drink

With eager lips the wind of their own speed."

51. Down the ringing grooves of change."

52. "Sister spirit, come away!"

53. (Of Byron)—" A sulky dandy."

54. "Jonson's learned sock."

55. "Bring the rathe primrose."

56. "While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand."

57.

"Her voice is all those tuneful fools admire."

58. "Tears of perfect moan."

59. "Better fifty years of Europe

Than a cycle of Cathay."

60. "Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye.”

61. "Blithe and debonair."

62. "Swinging slow with sullen roar.”

63. "The Angel of Death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings."

67.

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"Though the yesty waves Confound and swallow navigation up.'

68. "The Parliament of man,—the federation of the world.' 69. "Save the cricket on the hearth."

70. "Storied windows richly dight."

71. "O thou wondrous mother-age!"

73.

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Shall fold their tents like the Arabs,

And as silently steal away."

74. "He nursed the pinion that impelled the steel." 75. "A dim, religious light."

76. "Should auld acquaintance be forgot?"

77. "Yet human at the red-ripe of the heart."

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78. Brightest in dungeons, Liberty, thou art." 79. "Yearning for the large excitement

That the coming years would yield."

80. "Day's garish eye."

81. "A little learning is a dangerous thing."

82. "Daisies, those pearled Arcturi of the earth. ̈

83. Nurse of swart nations since the world began." "When he falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again."

84.

85. "A noble and puissant nation."

86.

Enthroned in the market-place, did sit alone
Whistling to the air.

87. "My eyes are dim with childish tears."

"The melody

Of this small lute gave ease to Petrarch's wound.”

92. "Swam full-faced like a silly silver-fish."

93. "Wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command."

94. "A noble wreck in ruinous perfection."

95. "True ease in writing comes from art, not chance."

96.

"Behold his lion's whelp

Forage in blood of French nobility.' 97. "Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles."

98. "

'Roundly smooth, or languishingly slow." 99. "To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new." 100. "For the mighty wind arises,

Roaring seaward, and I go."