122. Books recommended:-Mariette: Half-Hours of] French Translation (Williams and Norgate, London and Edinburgh). Nisard: Histoire de la Littérature Française, vols. 3, 4 (Williams and Norgate). Duruy: Histoire de France, vol. 2 (Williams and Norgate).

XXVII.-GERMAN.

Examiner.-Dr. Wintzer, Teacher of German in King's
College, London.

123. The examination paper will consist of three sections. The first will contain extracts or questions from the works recommended for reading; the second grammatical questions and idioms; and the third English phrases; an extract from an English author (both to be turned into German); questions on a certain period of the history and literature of Germany; and a theme to be

worked out in German.

XXX.-FREEHAND DRAWING.

Examiner.-F. S. Cary, Esq.

134. In freehand drawing the Candidate will be required to show a practical knowledge of the prinsiples usually applied in the imitation of natural and artifical forms, such as furniture, manufactured articles, ornament. foliage, and the human form.

XXXI.-GEOMETRICAL DRAWING.

Examiner-Thomas Bradley, Esq., Professor of Geometrical Drawing in King's College, London, and of the Royal Mili tary Academy, Woolwich.

135. Practical Geometry, or Geometrical Drawing, required by the Mechanist, Engineer, Builder, and all in 124. Each Candidate must translate at least one of the didate will be examined in Practical Plane Geometry, any way employed in the arts of construction. The Canextracts in section 1. First-class Certificates will be given the construction of right line figures of given areas, and to those only who translate well from English into of curved lines required in the arts, &c., ; in Practical German, answer in German the few questions on the Solid Geometry, Elementary Problems on the line and literature and history of Germany, and write a well-plane, in space, and their combinations, the representaexpressed essay on a subject which will be announced to tion by orthographic projection of simple solids from conthem when they come up for examination. ditions, and in the principles of Development as used in the construction of Maps, &c.; and in the Elementary Perspective Projection as far as it is required by the Architect.

125. Books recommended:-Schiller's Abfall der Niederlande (2tes u. 3tes Buch), Wilhelm Tell; Goethe's Tasso; Kohlrausch's Deutsche Geschichte (Vierter Zeitraum), and Vilmar's Geschichte der deutschen National136. Text Books:-Geometry, Plane, Solid, and SpheLiteratur (Alte Zeit, dritte Periode vom Jahre 1517-rical (Library of Useful Knowledge) is especially recom1624). 126. The Examiner, referring to last year's candidates, says:-"Some of those who have written the essay sometimes deviate from the point in question. A stricter keeping in view of the subject to be handled, and a more logical method of arranging the matter, ought in

future to be aimed at."

XXVIII.-ITALIAN.

mended as a work to be studied on Theoretical Geometry. -Elements of Geometrical Drawing, published by the Committee of Council on Education, 2 parts (Chapman and Hall).-Hall's Elements of Descriptive Geometry for Students in Engineering. Heather's Descriptive Geometry. Also the following French Works:-Elémens de Géométrie Descriptive, par S. F. Lacroix; Traité de Géométrie Descriptive, par Lefebure de Fourcy;

Examiner.-Signor V. Pistrucci, Professor of Italian in King's Nouveau Cours raisonné de Dessin Industriel, par

College, London.

127. Candidates for first-class certificates will be required to translate into English selections from the following works:-Dante, L'Inferno; Petrarca, Trionfo del Tempo; Tasso, La Gerusalemme Liberata; Alfieri, Saul and Filippo; Monti, Cajo Gracco. They must also translate into Italian an extract from some English author; answer some grammatical questions; and give the proper or approximate English equivalents for a certain number of Italian idioms.

128. Candidates for second and third-class certificates will be required to translate into English selections from the following modern prose writers-Foscolo, Botta, and and Manzoni; and to answer some grammatical questions.

XXIX.-SPANISH.

Examiner.-B. B. Aguirre, Esq., Lecturer on Spanish in
King's College, London.

129. Candidates for a first-class certificate will have to translate an English passage into Spanish, to render into English or French several idiomatic phrases, and to write in Spanish a short essay.

130. Candidates for a second-class certificate will have to translate from English into Spanish, and to answer several questions upon the Spanish verbs.

131. Candidates for a third-class certificate will have to translate from Spanish into English, and to answer several grammatical questions.

132. Books recommended:-Spanish Gil Blas; Conquista de Mejico, por Dn. Jose Morales Santistevan; Trozos escojidos delos mejores hablistas espanòles, por Dn. Carlos Ochoa; Estudios filolójios, por Dn. Manuel Martinez de Morentin.-Don Quixote translated into English by Charles Jarvis, Esq.

133.-The Examiner, referring to the last examination, says:" Most of the candidates have tried for a higher certificate than their knowledge of Spanish seems to warrant, and a few only have complied with the requirements."

Armengaud, aîné, et Armengaud, jeune, et Amouroux;
Bardin's Works on Descriptive Geometry.

137. The Examiner, speaking of those candidates who failed on the last occasion, mentions the apparent causes of these failures as-1st. A neglect of the conditions of the questions, either arising from carelessness in reading them, or from misconception of their import; 2. Neglect of the repeated injunction not to attempt more than the prescribed time allows of being carefully and thoughtfully accomplished; 3. A want of knowledge of the elements of solid or co-ordinate geometry, causing a great loss of time by compelling the candidate to adopt complicated and circuitous constructions instead of the brief and simple ones based on sound elementary knowledge."

XXXII.-THEORY OF MUSIC.
Examiner.-John Hullah, Esq.

138. Notation, the modern modes, intervals, time, signatures, the stave, transposition, modulation, terms, and characters in common use.

139. The Elements of Harmony.

140. Musical History and Biography.

141. Arrangements must be made, in the Previous Examinations by the Local Boards, to test Candidates, by oral examination, in their knowledge or appreciation of the sound of musical successions and combinations. A form of the test to be used for this purpose by the Local Board at the Previous Examination, will be sent by the Council to such Local Boards as may apply for it, in due time before the Examination.

142.-The Examiner, referring to the last examination, says:-" Of the few candidates who have not passed, the failure is attributable (as on former occasions) to their having attempted the harmony and counterpoint questions with insufficient or no preparation, to the neglect of those questions which possibly they might have answered correctly."

143. His Royal Highness the late President of the Society was pleased to offer annually to the candidate who, obtaining a certificate of the first-class in the current year, shall have obtained in that year and the three years immediately preceding it, the greatest number of such certificates, a PRIZE of TWENTY-FIVE GUINEAS, and this Prize Her Majesty the Queen has graciously intimated her intention to continue. This Prize cannot be taken more than once by the same candidate. It will be accompanied by a certificate from the Society of Arts, setting forth the special character of the Prize, and the various certificates for which it was granted.

144. In addition to the Prizes in Botany offered by the Society of Arts to candidates taking certificates of the First Class, the Council of the Royal Horticultural Society offers three additional Prizes of £5, £3, and £1 respectively to the three candidates being bona fide professional Gardeners, who, taking any grade of certificate in Botany, obtain the highest number of marks in that subject.

145. In addition to the Prizes in Floriculture, and in Fruit and Vegetable Culture, offered by the Society of Arts to candidates taking certificates of the First Class, the Proprietors of the Gardener's Chronicle offer three additional Prizes of £3, £2, and £1 respectively, for the three candidates, being bond-fide professional Gardeners, who, obtaining a Second-class certificate, at least, in Floriculture, or Fruit and Vegetable Culture, shall obtain the highest number of marks in one of these subjects, and also a Second-class certificate, at least, in Book-keeping or Mensuration.

GENERAL PRIZES.

None of these Prizes will be awarded to a Candidate who does not obtain a Certificate of the first-class in the subject.

2. Book-keeping

Second Prize, £3.
First Prize, £5.
Second Prize, £3.
First Prize, £5.
Second Prize, £3.
First Prize, £5.
Second Prize, £3.
First Prize, £5.
Second Prize, £3.
First Prize, £5.
Second Prize, £3.
First Prize, £5.
Second Prize, £3.
First Prize, £5.
Second Prize, £3.
Second Prize, £3.
First Prize, £5.
First Prize, £5.

Second Prize, £3.
(First Prize, £5.
Second Prize, £3.
First Prize, £5.
Second Prize, £3.
First Prize, £5.
Second Prize, £3.

Additional by Gift of
Sir Thomas Phillips, F.G.S:-
Third Prize, £2; and

Three Prizes of Books, value

£1 each.

First Prize, £5.
Second Prize, £3.

First Prize, £5.

Second Prize, £3.

| 17.*Fruit and Vegetable ( First Prize, £5.
Culture

Second Prize, £3.

First Prize, £5.
Second Prize, £3.

Additional by Gift of
Harry Chester, Esq.:-
Third Prize, £2; and
Three Prizes of Books, value

£1 each.
Second Prize, £3.
First Prize, £5.
First Prize, £5.
Second Prize, £3.
First Prize, £5.
Second Prize, £3.
First Prize, £5.
Second Prize, £3.
First Prize, £5.
Second Prize, £3.
First Prize, £5.
Second Prize, £3.

25. Latin and Roman (First Prize, £5.

Science

*For extra prizes in these subjects see above.

Local Sec. to the Society of Arts, London-road, Derby. Mr. W. Mogg and Mr. Samuel Chapple, Mechanics' Institute, Devonport. Mr. Frederick W. Monk, Managing Director of the Liverpool College

The foregoing Programme of Examinations is published in a separate form, and may be had gratis, on application to the Secretary of the Society of Arts; a copy will be forwarded to each Institution and Local Board.

Proceedings of Institutions.

reluctantly, to accede to the request of Mr. King. Most of them who heard him were old enough to remember the Exhibition of 1851, which owed its existence to the GLASGOW INSTITUTION.-From the last report it ap- practical wisdom and judgment of the late Prince Consort. pears that the number of students and scholars attending He (Lord Cranworth) must confess that at first he was not the classes during 1864-65 was 894, being an increase of very sanguine as to the success of that exhibition, but the 48 over the previous year. That of these the number result showed how much England and the world were inattending the various classes was as follows:-Mathe- debted to the illustrious individual with whom it originmatics, 27; free-hand drawing, 37; mechanical drawing, ated. At intervals of four and eleven years that exhibition 33; practical mechanics, 36; Latin and Greek, 36; was imitated by our neighbours across the channel, and French, 67; grammar, composition, and logic, 77; arith- then the illustrious originator of the 1851 Exhibition metic and book-keeping, 124; writing, 32; geography, approved the plan of that of 1862. Providence in its 3; morning classes, 16; phonography, 13; elocution and inscrutable wisdom prevented his royal highness from English literature, 33; elementary evening classes, 99; witnessing the triumph of this work, but one result was ladies' evening classes, 40; dancing, 25; and in the the establishment on a more extended basis of the Kenjuvenile day classes-Middle, 190; lower, 92; advanced, sington Museum-in his judgment a most valuable insti 16; ladies, 4; free-hand drawing, 92; needlework, 14. tution, as enabling the working man to study the best That 36 came forward to the preliminary examinations of models in the finer mechanical arts. However, it was the Society of Arts, of whom 27 passed, but several were idle to suppose that the 300,000 working men living in under age. Of the juveniles, 58 came forward to the the north-east of London could go to Kensington; indeed, examination of the Local Board; of them 53 passed, and a calculation has been handed to him showing that four were awarded 16 first-class certificates, 16 second, and 21 visits to Kensington would cost the working man equithird. The following certificates were awarded in the valent to two-and-a-half days of his working time. Such students' classes-Practical mechanics, 2; elementary being the case, it had been suggested that greater facilities arithmetic, 5; arithmetic, 8; writing and its applications, for art studies might be given by the establishment of 9; free-hand drawing, 10; book-keeping, 8; Latin, 2; local museums, and it was the proud distinction of the English grammar and composition, 2; logic, 3. The district in which he then stood that it had taken the directors have been obliged to give up the premises they initiative in this most important movement. Amongst its have occupied for the last four years, on account of the population were the makers of horological, philosophical, heavy rent, and consequent expenditure necessary to and photographic instruments; and it was most desirable maintain the Institution, and have removed to the pre- that they should have within reach such a museum as it mises it formerly occupied in 63, Cathedral-street. The was hoped now to establish. In fact, it was an indispenincome for the last two years has been only about £300-sable sequence to free trade; for if we permitted foreign this year £302 7s. 6d., and last year £303 1s. 11d., which workmen to come in and compete in the English market, could not afford £130 a year for rent and standing ex- it was only fair that the English workman should have penditure at the fees charged; while the raising of the the means of studying, and of surpassing, if possible, the fees would introduce an entirely different class of students points in which his foreign competitor beat him. for whom ample accommodation is provided in other places could only be done by collecting in a museum spein the city; the change of premises has therefore been re- cimens of all the artistic workmanship of the world; sorted to. The report concludes by expressing thanks to the and, therefore, he trusted the time was Local Board and to Alex. Craig, Esq., artist, London, for distant when they would have to open such a colhis able representation of the Institute at the Society of lection on the spot where he stood. Another adArts Conference. vantage of such a as well as of similar institutions, would be to promote habits of temperremember when habits of intemperance were considered He was old enough to ance amongst working-men. to be no disgrace in the very highest ranks of society, whereas now they were completely exploded. He hoped to see similar results amongst working men; but what would lead to them would be, not repressive laws, bus the institution of establishments like the present, which would amuse whilst they instructed, and would have the After one of effect of rendering temperance attractive. two further observations, his lordship concluded his address with a Scriptural quotation illustrative of the dignity of labour.

NORTH-EASTERN LONDON EXHIBITION OF

ARTS AND MANUFACTURES.

The opening ceremonial of the above exhibition took place on the 16th instant, at the Agricultural Hall. The Organ-gallery was occupied by Mr. G. W. Martin's choir, augmented for this occasion to a thousand choristers.

The Lord Chancellor arrived at three o'clock, accompanied by the Marquis of Salisbury. At the same time came also the Lord Mayor, attended by Alderman and Sheriff Besley and the usual civic retinue. The Atchdeacon of London was also present on the platform, with a great number of the manufacturers and employers of the district. The Lord Chancellor was received on his arrival by Mr. King, the chairman of the Committee, and his colleagues, and conducted to the dais, where the simple ceremonial of the day immediately commenced. A procession was formed, including the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Lord Mayor, and the members of the committee, and a complete circuit and careful examination made of the exhibition. After which, on returning to the dais, prayer was read by Archdeacon Hale, and the Lord Chancellor, at the request of the Lord Mayor, declared the exhibition opened. The next proceeding was the singing by the choir of the chorale composed by the late Prince Concert-"Awake my Glory." The LORD CHANCELLOR addressed a few words to the company. He had, he said, when first asked to preside on that occasion, expressed, in all sincerity, his doubts of his fitness for the task; but subsequently, when he remembered how few of our leading personages were in town at this season of the year, he determined, however

museum,

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not far

The Marquis of SALISBURY followed with a brief expression of thanks to his lordship for presiding, and the proceedings terminated with the National Anthem, sang in full chorus by the entire company.

PARIS UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION OF 1867. A new feature has appeared in connection with th Exhibition, namely, the introduction of the literary er rather scholastic element. It has not yet taken any defi nite shape, but it is shadowed forth in a speech delivered by the Minister of Public Instruction, on the occasion of the presentation of the annual prizes to the pupils of the Lycées and Colleges of Paris and Versailles on the 715 instant. M. Duruy says:—

"In eighteen months, the nations will come here from the extremities of the earth to dispute for the palms of peace. A place in that competition will be reserved for you.