May we remember how nearly health and sickness come together, and that the time will surely come to us all when we shall be raised up from sickness no more.

While Thou yet sparest us, give us grace to turn to Thee in earnest that we may not have to turn to Thee when it it is too late with a vain regret and despair. Grant this, O Lord, for Thy dear Son's sake, Jesus Christ our Lord.

(B.)

It has been thought worth while to select a few of the subjects which Dr. Arnold chose for exercises at Rugby, both as an illustration of what has been said on this point in the Chapter on his school life; and also because, at least to those who knew him, they would suggest, perhaps, as much as any thing which could be given, his favourite images and trains of thought. They were of course varied with translations from the authors he most admired, and he used from time to time to give criticisms on different books or poems. Many of the subjects, as will be seen, are capable of various applications, which he used to indicate to the boys when he set the subjects. The subjects of the last half-year of his life have been given entire, and those who have read the account of that period will trace the connexion of many of them with some of the thoughts then uppermost in his mind.

SUBJECTS FOR PROSE EXERCISES.

1. The difference between advantages and merits. 2. On the excellences of Translation, and some of its difficulties.

3. I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds

With coldness still returning,

Alas! the gratitude of men

Hath oftener left me mourning.

4. Conversation between Thomas Aquinas, James Watt, and Sir Walter Scott.

5. How far the dramatic faculty is compatible with the love of truth.

6. The principal events and men of England, France, Germany, and Holland, A.D. 1600.

7. The ideal is superior to the real.

8. The good and evil which resulted from the seven years' war.

9. Cogitamus secundum naturam, loquimur ex præceptis, agimus e consuetudine. (Bacon.)

10. Magnus esse debet historiam legentibus fructus, superioris ævi calamitates cum hâc nostrâ humanitate et tranquillitate conferentibus.

11. Parum valet rerum ipsarum scientia, nisi accedat ingenii vigor, quæ informem molem in veram doctrinam effingat.

12. Henricus Jenkyns, jam extremâ senectute, quæ in tam longâ vitâ memoriâ dignissima viderit, nepotibus

enarrat.

13. An bene constitutum sit debitoris non bona tantum, sed etiam corpus creditori esse obnoxium.

14. Franco Gallorum exercitus, devicto inferiori Ægypto, superiorem et urbem Thebas ingreditur.

15. De sæculo, quo Esaias vaticinia sua edidit.

16. Diversi nuntii a Novoburiensi prælio Londinum et Oxoniam pervenientes.

17. Oxoniæ descriptio, qualem redivivus describeret Herodotus. (Greek.)

18. Quæ in quascunque regiones peregrinantibus præcipuè notanda.

19. Alexander Babylonem ingreditur, neque ita multò post morbo correptus, inter summum suorum fletum et dolorum animum expirat.

20. Africa provincia, postquam Romanis subjecta esset, quas potissimum vices usque ad hanc ætatem subierit.

21. Non ea est vitæ nostræ ratio ut sciamus omnia, neque ut de omnibus incerti dubitemus; sed ut neque scientes planè, neque ignorantes, probabili causâ moti credamus.

22. Definiantur voces quæ sequuntur, τὸ τίμιον, τὸ κάλον, Exxλnoía, fides: necnon, voces Anglica,-" revolution," philosophy," art," religion," duty," "romantic," "sublime," "pretty."

23. Judæus quidam Athenas devectus Socrati de republicâ et puerorum institutione disputanti forte auditorem se et interrogatorem præbet.

24. De veris rerum miraculis.

25. De primævis animalibus et terræ hujus mirandis vicibus.

26. Europam per æstatem anni 1815 circumvectus, quem rerum statum apud singulos populos offendisset.

27. Descriptio monasterii, quæ sit singularum domi partium distributio, qualemque ibi vitam degant monachi. 28. De celeberrimis quæ in omni memoriâ scriptæ sunt legibus.

29. Calendarium naturale.

30. Ea demum vera est voluptas quæ non tam spe delectat, quam recordatione præteritâ―(" Look not on pleasures as they come, but go.")

SUBJECTS FOR VERSE.

1. Pendent opera interrupta.
2. Venus eadem quæ Libitina.

3. Prytaneum.

4. Byzantinum sive Romanum Imperium inter novas Europæ respublicas solum antiquitatis monumentum superstes manet.

5. Africa, bonarum artium nutrix, nunc barbarie premitur.

6. Ερωτες σοφιάς πάρεδροι.

7. Mediterranei Asiæ campi.

8. Richardi Cromwellii in Senatum reditus.

9. Vulgo ferunt beatas esse nuptias, quas sol illuminat ; inferias, quibus irrorant nubes.

10. The Land's End.

11. Supremi fructus anni.

12. Siccitate laborant agri.

13. Festum omnium Animarum, sive Dies in memoriam Christianorum defunctorum celebratus.

14. Ναϋς αφανισθεῖσα.

15. Epicurus scholam in hortulo suo instituit.

16. Polycarpi Martyrium.

17. Magna est funerum religio.

18. Oculis capto mens tamen intus viget.

19. Christianus, trajecto flumine, ob pericula viæ feliciter superata, grates agit. (Pilgrim's Progress.)

20. (The Seven Sleepers.) De septem illis pueris qui cum per CLXXX. annos dormiissent, tum autem miraculo expergefacti sunt.

21. Duodecim vultures a Romulo visæ.

22. Ulysses in ipso mortis limine cum matris umbrâ colloquitur.

23. Demosthenis extrema fata.

24. Fasti Christiani.

25. Adventus Domini qualis ab ecclesiâ singulis annis celebratur.

26. Urbis Romæ vicissitudines.

27. Hortus Anglicus.

28. Prospectabat pulcherrimum sinum, antequam Vesuvius mons ardescens faciem loci verteret. Tac. Ann.iv.67. 29. Pastores duo, hic mare ille dulcis aquæ flumina alternis versibus laudant.

PROSE SUBJECTS, FROM FEBRUARY TO JUNE, 1842.

1. De fœnore et de legibus fœnebribus.

2. Duo viatores, ab ipso fonte profecti, Rhodani cursum animi causâ usque ad mare explorant.

3. Quis rerum fuerit status circa annum post Christum sexcentesimum.

4. "Nunc dimittis :" (Christianus, ipsis Apostolis æqualis, jam ad centesimum annum provectus, grates Deo agit ob fidem per universum ferè terrarum orbem pervulgatam.)

5. John, xvi. 22. "If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin; but now they have no cloak for their sin." (English Prose.)

6. De sectis Judæorum, Pharisæis, Sadducæis, et Essenibus; necnon de Publicanis et quos vocant Judaizantibus sive Christianis Judaismum affectantibus.

7. Νεωτερίζουσι τοῖς ὀλίγοις ἀντιλέγει ὁ Θρασυβούλος. (Gk.) 8. Quintus Varus cum legionibus in Germaniâ occidione occisus.

9. Caius Trebatius Testa a Britanniâ Ciceronis litteris, (Ep. ad Div. lib. vii.) respondet.

10. De vitâ et moribus Sultani Mamudi.

11. De seditione inter Athenienses quâ quadringenti illi viri rempublicam invaserunt.

12. Macedonum et Russorum regna inter se compar

antur.

12. Quæritur quæ sit philosophia et quam ob causam ei a pluribus invideatur.

VERSE SUBJECTS, FROM FEBRUARY TO JUNE, 1842.

1. Abydos a Philippo expugnata.

2. Gray's Hymn to Adversity.

3. Sophonisba.

4. Fodinæ mercenarii subito terræ lapsu pæne obruti post longum et gravissimum vitæ discrimen tandem ad lucem proferuntur.

5. Hannibal Italiam relinquit.

6. Novi Ulyssis errores columnæ Herculis, Iberia, Oceanus.

7. Scipio Africanus in cellâ Jovis secum meditatur. 8. Translation from Cowper's Task, Book IV.