7. What were the disabilities and wrongs of the Italians which led to the Social war?

8. In treating of certain financial reforms effected by Caesar, Dr. Mommsen says

"By this conversion of a political privilege into a provision for the poor, a principle remarkable in a moral as well as in a historical point of view came for the first time into living operation."

To what does he refer?

9. Consider Dr. Mommsen's estimate of Cicero.

10. In what ways were the functions of government divided between Tiberius and the Senate ?

11. In what manner was the Empire subdivided (a) in the time of Augustus, (b) in the time of Constantine ?

12. Trace shortly the career of Alaric, king of the Visigoths.

13. Contrast legendary Greece with historical Greece (a) as to the administration of justice, (b) as to the relation of the king to the chiefs.

14. What were the (a) political and (b) social conditions of Athens which led to the demand for the legislation of Solon? How did he deal with the more important matters in dispute?

15. What were the characteristic merits and defects of the type of character which the Spartan institutions tended to produce?

HISTORY OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE.-PART I.

Professor Elkington.

Answer fully and clearly TEN, and only Ten, of the following questions.

1. What interest has the Germania of Tacitus to the student of English history?

2. Give an account of the organization of the English Church before the Norman Conquest, and explain its relation (a) to the English state, (b) to Rome.

3. In what respects were the Norman kings (a) the introducers of new ideas, (b) the inheritors of the traditions of the old English monarchy ?

4. Explain shortly the importance of (a) the Constitutions of Clarendon, (b) the Assize of Clarendon, (c) the Assize of Arms.

5. Write a historical note upon the "Mise of Amiens."

16. Account shortly (a) for the victories won by the English in France in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and (b) for the ultimate failure of the English to keep their conquests.

7. Discuss the meaning and the limitation of the term "the New Monarchy."

8. Discuss Wolsey's attitude towards the Reformation.

9. What were the causes of the war between England and Spain in the reign of Elizabeth? Why was its outbreak so long delayed?

10. Discuss the views inculcated by Bacon as a states

man.

11. Discuss the view that Strafford was an apostate to the Parliament.

12. How do you account for the breakdown of the Commonwealth and the restoration of the

Stuarts?

13. "Few measures have ever brought about more startling results than the Test Act" (of 1673). Green, vol. iii., p. 407.

Explain fully.

HISTORY OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE.-PART II.

Professor Elkington.

Answer fully and clearly TEN, and only Ten, of the following questions.

1. What in early Irish history is meant by Flaith, Deis right, Bo-airé, Fuidhir? Were there any corresponding distinctions in Teutonic society?

2. Contrast the social condition of Ireland at the close of the reign of Henry the Second with that at the accession of Henry the Seventh.

3. Consider the fall of the Hydes as marking an epoch in the reign of James the Second.

4. Mention any historical events that appear to justify Aristotle's dictum that revolutions are generated by great causes but out of small incidents.

5. What circumstances contributed to favour the personal power of the Crown early in the reign of George the Third ?

6. "These three measures produced the American war, and they are well worthy of a careful and dispassionate examination."-LECKY, vol. iii., p. 307.

Examine them.

7. In what respects does the Quebec Act, 1774, mark an epoch in history?

8. Consider the nature of the expansion of the Empire in the eighteenth century.

9. "The British won India not from the Mughals but from the Hindus."-HUNTER, p. 317. Explain this statement.

10. Give an account of the Indian administration of Lord William Bentinck.

11. Trace the history of the Anti-Corn Law League, and explain carefully the causes of its success.

12. What were the circumstances which led to Lord Durham's mission to Canada ?

Explain the importance of its results.

13. How are the peers of the three kingdoms respectively represented in the House of Lords? What is meant by a life peerage? Who are the lifepeers?

POLITICAL ECONOMY.

Professor Elkington.

Answer fully and clearly TEN, and only Ten, of the following questions.

1. Discuss the conditions upon which the efficiency of Labour depends.

2. Discuss the conditions upon which the efficiency of Natural Agents depends.

3. Distinguish between Invention and Discovery. Give the history of as many instances of premature invention as you can.

4. Walker speaks of two schools of Political Economy. Summarise and discuss his views on this subject.

5. Walker mentions certain "evil possibilities' as involved in the division of labour. Discuss them.