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THE POPULAR EDUCATOK. 



2. STATIONERY OFFICE. (Open Competition,.) 

 Office and stores at Storey's Gate, Westminster. Function 

 to supply all the public departments with every kind of 

 stationery and office small stores ; to print, bind, repair, and 

 to do all that an ordinary stationer would do. 



Establishment as follows : Controller, 1,000 to 1,200, and 

 100 in lieu of residence; one assistant controller, 800; 1 

 clerk in charge of accounts, 450 to 550 ; 1 registrar and 

 clerk of demands, 450 to =550 ; 1 storekeeper, ,450 to 

 550; 1 clerk, of old first-class, 375 to 500; 12 clerks, 

 420; 2 examiners of printers' accounts, 260 to 400; 11 

 clerks, lower division, 80 to .200. 



Professional staff: 1 superintendent of printing, .450 to 

 .550 ; I assistant and deputy-superintendent ditto, ,500 ; 1 

 assistant examiner of printing and binding in Dublin, 100 to 

 .300 ; 1 receiver and examiner of job-work printing, ,100 

 to .250 ; 1 examiner of paper, 400 to .500 ; 1 assistant 

 examiner ditto, 200 to 300 ; 1 examiner of binding, .350 to 

 450 ; 1 assistant examiner ditto, 200 to ,300 ; 1 extra 

 examiner ditto, ,100 to .150. 



THE COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS. 



WE have given in a preceding paper full particulars of the 

 subjects in which candidates are examined. It now remains 

 that we should give a list of the departments in which, up to 

 the present time, situations have been assigned to candidates 

 who have succeeded in passing first-class and lower division 

 examinations. 



Admiralty. 



British Museum. 



Chancery (Scotland). 



Charitable Donations and Bequests Commission (Ireland). 



Charity Commission. 



Chelsea Hospital. 



Chief Secretary's Office (Ireland). 



Civil Service Commission. 



Colonial Office. 



Constabulary (Ireland). 



Criminal Law Accounts (Office of Examiner). 



Customs. 



Deeds, Registry of (Ireland). 



Dublin Metropolitan Police. 



Ecclesiastical Commission. 



Education Department. 



Exchequer and Audit Office. 



Fisheries Office (Ireland). 



Foreign Office. 



Friendly Societies' Registry. 



High Court of Justice (England) Pay Office. 



High Court of Justice (Ireland) Accountant's Office. 



Home Office. 



India Office. 



Inland Revenue. 



Irish Land Commission. 



Land Office (England). 



Local Government Board (England). 



Local Government Board (Ireland). 



Lunacy Commission. 



Mint. 



National Debt Office. 



National Education Office (Ireland). 



Patent Office. 



Paymaster-General's Department. 



Post-Office. 



Prisons Service (Ireland). 



Prisons Department (Scotland). 



Privy Council Office. 



Public Works Loan Office. 



Public Works Office (Ireland). 



Queen's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer's Office (Scotland) 



Record Office (England). 



Record Office (Ireland). 



Reformatories Office. 



Registrar-General's Office (England). 



Registrar-General's Office (Ireland). 



Registrar-General's Office (Scotland). 



Science and Art Department. 



Scotch Education Department. 



Seamen's Registry Office. 



Stationery Office. 



Temporary Commissions. 



Trade, Board of. 



Treasury- 



Valuation Office (Ireland). 

 War Office. 

 Woods, Office of. 

 Works, Office of. 



SPECIMENS OF EXAMINATION PAPEKS. 



The rather formidable list of subjects in which the candidates 

 will be examined, especially under Scheme I., will probably 

 create some little curiosity, not unmingled with apprehensions 

 as to the value of the questions he will be required to answer. 

 It will be impossible to anticipate the exact questions ; and the 

 candidate must trust to his general acquaintance with the 

 subjects, when he finds himself in the room with the paper of 

 questions before him, and no means of reference at hand. 

 But the papers used at previous examinations have been pub- 

 lished, and afford a tolerably safe guide as to the scope of the 

 future examinations. The Reports of the Civil Service Com- 

 missioners, published yearly, and to be obtained at the office 

 for the sale of parliamentary papers in Great Queen Street, 

 contain abundant specimens of these examination papers ; and 

 we append some samples of questions which have been already 

 put, and which may be taken as samples of those which the 

 candidates will be expected to answer. 



SPECIMENS OF QUESTIONS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE AND 

 LANGUAGE. 



Classify the letters, diphthongs, and consonants in the English 

 alphabet. 



What parts of speech admit of inflection in the English language ? 

 To what kind of inflection are they subject respectively ? 



Illustrate, by a few decisive examples, the manner in which the 

 English language adopts words from the French, from the Latin, and 

 from the Greek languages respectively, and the nature of the changes, 

 whether in spelling, in the pronunciation, or in both, by which it 

 assimilates them, and makes them its own. 



Give instances of words ending in head, ship, let, lie, ling, dom, most, 

 and explain the force of these terminations. 



Explain fully the difficulty about the use of shall or will ; and 

 explain the rule by which such use ought to be regulated. 



Correct the following phrases, and give in every case your reason :- 



(a) Do not be too harsh neither. 



(b) Either the king or his advisers has acted unwisely. 



(c) We are now arrived at the conclusion of the three first chapters. 



(d) By the sending to them this message he greatly comforted them. 



(e) All that is true is not proper to be uttered. 



(f) Whom do men say that I am ? 



Define a substantive. Of what equivalents for substantives does the 

 English language admit ? 



How are plurals formed in English? Give examples of plurals 

 which do not involve the idea of more than one of the tilings designated. 



What do you consider to be the chief literary merits of Chaucer ? 



Give an analysis of the story of some one of the " Canterbury 

 Tales." 



To what causes do you ascribe the extreme meagreness of English 

 literature in the fifteenth century ? 



Quote any passages, containing allusions to religious doctrines or 

 practices, which you may recollect as occurring in Shakespeare. 



SPECIMEN HISTORY PAPER. 



Enumerate the principal measures of the Long Parliament, pointing 

 out which of them were unconstitutional or unfavourable to liberty. 



Give a short description of the following battles: Verneuil, Phar- 

 salia, Cheronsea, Morat, Chalons. 



Sketch the characters, not the lives, of Socrates, Pausanias, Caius 

 Gracchus, Vespasian, Cardinal Ximenes, Oxenstiern. 



Give some account of the sieges of Gibraltar, Rochelle, Ciudad 

 Rodrigo, Silistria. 



Describe the policy of Henry VIII. in his relations to Charles V. 

 and Francis I. 



Mention any of the most important harbours of ancient Greece, and 

 describe their historical incidents. 



Point out some of the general results of the reign of Louis XIV. 

 on France and on the world. 



