A "STEVENSON" PAPER.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1194, 1 August 1911, Page 2

A "STEVENSON" PAPER.

Tho "Cornhill Magazine" has been printing a series of examination papers on tho works of famous authors. Ihe following in tho Juno number of R. L. Stevenson's writings is set by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch: (1.) Name two Continental towns nnving commissaires, of whom one was bribed with nn odd volume of Michelet, and tho other swore in a fashion to raise S singular doubt in n maiden lady. (2.) Distinguish by name the publichouso praised by Mr. W. Bones as > pleasant sitiyated grog-shop' from that ni which Colour-Sergeant Brand introduced his now friend to a number of wgeiuoua mixtures calculated to prevent the approaches of intoxication; and say in whoso keeping the bottle went out of tho story. (3.) How, foiling evidences of naughtiness, would you account for a child s being uncleanly, untidy, and but moderately nourished? (i.) (a) "Star, she screamed. 1 will put them on." Who was she and what wero they? (u) "Lie- here," says he, "ond birstle."' Who R.ive this advice, to whomf (c) "I'll take tho chaise for a hundred pound down, and throw the dinner in." Who made this idiomatic offer? (a.) Give alternative pronunciation' <" r Athenaeum, Goethe, Don Quixote; auu. the masonic word of donkey drivers. (G.) Who is a good man to marry for love, and how do his absences keep it? (7.) State in.terms of familiar appellations what (a) was played by a yomiff gentleman with a stake in the country; and what' (b) was stjod by a vanmon for threo sovereigns.' Combine the latter with the name of a ship's male who might not bo a sailor, but could dance, and produce (c) a famous English man of letters. (8.) In the search for what, and out of what, interval of time was a ruminant animal evolved? Name the animal. (9.) You are given two musical instruments. A linked capacity of jimmy on the one would on the olher translate il> self iuto a. perfect Ilighl , of warblers. Name tho instruments and find a com-mon-t'erni for jimmy and wnrblers, (10.) "He will regret it when he's dead." Who? (11.) Where was a bet laid that Stevenson was what? State the amount of tho wager. (12.) 'Show that the number of cream tarts consumed by a young man ".since five o'clock," divided by (he residuum bo subsequeut'ly'swallowed,' exactly equals the number of compartment in a sleeping, cnvriaso on the Uveal Northern line.