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 you did in the old school days, for the examinations for entrance to these training-schools are by no means simple. Here, for instance, is a set of questions gleaned from a sample examination sheet, loaned by the Drexel Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:

1. Mention nationality and century and characterize briefly an important work by ten of the following: Le Sage, Marlowe, Tasso, Ibsen, Maurice, Hewlett, Balzac, Sir Francis Bacon, Montaigne, Sir Thomas Malory, Lessing, Walter Pater, Paine, Swinburne, Landor, James Bryce.

2. State briefly what you know about the literary work of the following: Sainte-Beuve, Turgenieff, Dante, Gabriel, Rosetti, Heine, Thomas De Quincy.

3. Write an account (about two pages) of the poets and poetry of England at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries.

4, Name five important writers of ancient Greece, and specify in what department each is famous. Of ancient Rome.

5. Describe (only five lines each) the character of the following: "The Faerie Queene," "The Rubaiyat," "Idylls of the King."

6. What do you understand by the following: (a) the minnesingers; (b) the Cid; (c) the