INTRODUCTION. 



Tlie Judges also state that they consider the four Essays 

 bearing the following mottoes as worthy of honorable mention, 

 as containing much valuable information : — 



" Nil sine labore.' 



" Trunca pedum primo, mox et stridentia pennia 

 Miscentur, tenuemque magis aera carpunt." 



" They are all the work of His hands." 



"And the Lord God prepared a gourd, and made it come up over Jonah, that 

 it might be a shadow over his head to deliver him from his grief; so Jonah was 

 exceedingly glad of the gourd. 



" But God prepared a worm when the morning rose, and it smote the gourd 

 that it withered." 



