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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 79

The Civil Service of India; Clerkships (Class I) in the Home Civil Service; and Eastern Cadetships.

Education Department,
Wellington, 11th September 1906.

THE following regulations received from His Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Colonies respecting examinations for the Civil Service of India, for clerkships (Class I) in the Home Civil Service, and for Eastern cadetships, are published for general information.

GEO. FOWLDS,
Minister of Education.

CIVIL SERVICE OF INDIA; CLERKSHIPS (CLASS I) IN THE HOME CIVIL SERVICE; AND EASTERN CADETSHIPS.

Syllabus showing the Extent of the Examination in certain Subjects for 1907.

English Composition.—An essay to be written on one of several subjects specified by the Civil Service Commissioners on their examination-paper.

English Language and Literature.—The examination will be in two parts. In the one the candidates will be expected to show a general acquaintance with the course of English literature, as represented (mainly) by the following writers in verse and prose, between the reign of Edward III and the accession of Queen Victoria:—Verse: Chaucer, Langland, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Gray, Collins, Johnson, Goldsmith, Crabbe, Cowper, Campbell, Wordsworth, Scott, Byron, Cleridge, Shelley, Keats. Prose: Bacon, Sir Thomas Browne, Milton, Cowley, Bunyan, Dryden, Swift, Defoe, Addison, Johnson, Burke, Scott, Macaulay (essays and biographies).

A minute knowledge of the works of these authors will not be looked for in this part of the examination, which will, however, test how far the candidates have studied the chief productions of the greatest English writers in themselves, and are acquainted with the leading characteristics of their thought and style, and with the place which each of them occupies in the history of English literature. Candidates will also be expected to show that they have studied in these authors the history of the English language in respect of its vocabulary, syntax, and prosody.

The other part of the examination will relate to one of the periods named below, which will follow each other year by year in the order indicated:—

1. (1907.) A.D. 1800 to A.D. 1832 (nineteenth-century writers to the death of Scott).
2. (1908.) A.D. 1360 to A.D. 1600 (Chaucer to Spenser).
3. (1909.) A.D. 1600 to A.D. 1700 (Shakespeare to Dryden).
4. (1910.) A.D. 1700 to A.D. 1800 (Pope to Cowper).

The examination in this part will require from candidates a more minute acquaintance with the history of the English language and literature, as illustrated in the chief works produced in each period, and will be based to a considerable extent, but by no means exclusively, on certain books specified each year by the Commissioners.* The names placed under the dates are intended to suggest the general character of the literary development of the period, and, consequently, the natural limits of the examination. All the works of Shakespeare, for example, will be regarded as falling within the period 1600 to 1700; all the works of Swift within the period 1700 to 1800; all the works of Scott and Wordsworth, and all the works of Macaulay, within the period 1800 to 1832.

Italian Language and Literature.—Translation and composition. Critical questions on the Italian language and literature. Conversation.

French Language and Literature.—Translation and composition. Critical questions on the French language and literature. Conversation.

German Language and Literature.—Translation and composition. Critical questions on the German language and literature. Conversation.

Latin Language and Literature.—Translation from Latin into English, composition in prose and verse, or (as an alternative for verse-composition) an original prose composition in Latin. Critical questions on the Latin language (including questions on philology) and literature.

Greek Language and Literature.—Translation from Greek into English, composition in prose and verse, or (as an alternative for verse-composition) an original prose composition in Greek. Critical questions on the Greek language (including questions on philology) and literature.

Sanskrit Language and Literature.—Translation from Sanskrit into English, and from English into Sanskrit. History of Sanskrit literature (including knowledge of such Indian history as bears upon the subject); Sanskrit grammar; Vedic philology.

• The books for 1907 are:—Wordsworth: Sonnets. Shelley: Poems. Campbell: Poems. Blake: Poems. “Rejected Addresses.” Hookham Frere: Works. Peacock: Works. Lamb: Essays of Elia. Hazlitt, William (the Elder): Works.

Arabic Language and Literature.—Translation as in Sanskrit; history of Arabic literature (including knowledge of such Arabic history as bears upon the subject); Arabic grammar; Arabic prosody.

English Law.—Under the head of “English law” are included the following subjects, viz.: (1) Law of contract, (2) law of evidence, (3) law of the Constitution, (4) criminal law, (5) law of real property; and of these five subjects candidates are at liberty to offer any four, but not more than four.

English History.—The subject will include (a) the political history of Great Britain, Ireland, and the colonies; (b) the constitutional history of the United Kingdom. Candidates should be acquainted with the following authorities:—

PERIOD I.

Stubbs. Select Charters.

PERIOD II.

Prothero. Statutes and Constitutional Documents.
Gardiner. Documents of the Puritan Revolution.
All published by Clarendon Press, Oxford.

General Modern History.—Candidates may, at their choice, be examined in any one of the following periods:—1. From the accession of Charlemagne to the Third Crusade (A.D. 800 to A.D. 1193). 2. From the Third Crusade to the Diet of Worms (A.D. 1193 to A.D. 1521). 3. From the Diet of Worms to the death of Louis XIV (A.D. 1521 to A.D. 1715). 4. From the accession of Louis XV to the French Revolution of 1848 (A.D. 1715 to A.D. 1848). Periods 3 and 4 will include Indian history.

Candidates should be acquainted with the following authorities:—

PERIOD I, 800–1193.

Einhard: Vita Caroli Magni, from 800 A.D. Ed.: Pertz. Scriptores Rerum Germanicarum.
Lambert of Hersfeld. Ed.: Pertz.
Suger: Vita Ludovici VI. Ed.: (1) Migne; (2) Société de l’Histoire de France. 1868.
Otto of Freising: De gestis Frederici I. Ed.: Pertz. (Not to include the continuator).

PERIOD II, 1193–1521.

Joinville: St. Louis. Ed.: (1) Petitot; (2) Michaud et Poujoulat; (3) Buchon; (4) Société de l’Histoire de France, 1868.
Philippe de Comines: Mémoires. Ed.: (1) Petitot; (2) Michaud et Poujoulat; (3) Buchon; (4) de Mandrot, Picard, Paris, 1901, 3.
Machiavelli: The Prince. English translation by Thompson: Clarendon Press.

PERIOD III, 1521–1715.

La Noue: Mémoires. Ed.: Petitot, Michaud et Poujoulat, Buchon.
Sully: Economies Royales, up to the Treaty of Vervins. Ed.: Petitot, Michaud et Poujoulat.
Torey: Mémoires. Ed.: Petitot, Michaud et Poujoulat.

PERIOD IV, 1715–1848.

Frederick II. Histoire de mon Temps, and La Guerre de Sept Ans. Ed.: Boutaric; or in Œuvres de Frédéric II. Decker, Berlin, 1846.
Malmesbury. Dairies and Correspondence. London, Bentley, 1844. Vol. II. Mission to the Hague. Pp. 66–443. Vol. III. Mission to Lisle. Pp. 369–599.
Metternich. Aus Metternich’s nachgelassenen Papieren. Autorisirte Original-Ausgabe. Vienna, 1880. Up to 1815. Or in English translation—Autobiography of Prince Metternich. Translated by Mrs. Napier. London, Bentley, 1880–1881.

Greek History.—Questions (a) on the general and (b) on the constitutional history of Greece to the death of Alexander.

Roman History.—Questions (a) on the general and (b) on the constitutional history of Rome to the death of Vespasian.

In Greek and Roman history candidates will be expected to show a knowledge of the original authorities.

Mathematics.—Plane geometry, including conic sections; solid geometry, including the method of orthogonal projection; algebra and plane trigonometry; elementary plane co-ordinate geometry; elementary mechanics of solids and fluids; geometrical optics, elements of differential and integral calculus with simple illustrations from other branches of the subject.

Advanced Mathematics.—Higher algebra (including theory of equations), plane and spherical trigonometry, differential calculus, integral calculus, differential equations, analytical geometry (plane and solid), statics including attractions, dynamics of a particle, rigid dynamics, hydrodynamics, the mathematical theory of electricity and magnetism,