Lesson 54.-Thursday Morn. Grammar. Write and Learn. How sleep the brave who sink to rest, Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.—(W. Collins.) Ex. 2. Paraphrase the above (i.e., turn into prose). Ex. 3. Give the meaning of these words, so as to show the force of the prefix: Conjoin, circumference, co-equal, decline, countersign, depress. Latin Roots.-Learn and Write. Lesson 55.-Friday Morning. Work these Sums. (1) Find the ordinary discount on £107 5s., due 6 months hence, at 5 per cent per annum. (2) £1,336 11s. 3d. is due at the end of 3 years; what is the banker's discount on it at 5 per cent? (3) What is the trade discount, at 2 per cent, on £630 2s. 6d. due in 3 months? (4) Express £1 10s. 8.24d. in pounds sterling. (5) If the carriage of 11 tons 15cwt. for 108 miles cost £7 7s. 11d.; what would be charged for the carriage of 141cwt. a distance of 36 miles ? COMPOSITION.-Continue your composition exercise on Newspapers (see last Friday's lesson). Give a history of newspapers. The first one issued in England was in 1622, and was called The Weekly News. Their gradual increase in size. Early news possible by means of the telegraph. Cheap price. Large number printed. Our chief English daily paper, The Times. Daily papers now published in all the large towns and a large number of weekly ones all over the country. Uses of advertisements. D TWELFTH WEEK. Lesson 56.-Monday Morning. Learn. From Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. BASSA'NIO, his Friend. DRAMATIS PERSONE. and Bassanio. DUKE OF VEN'ICE. ANTONIO, the Merchant of Venice. SALA'NIO, SALARI'NO, GRATIA'NO, } Friends to Antonio ACT IV. Duke. Ant. Duke. Ant. SHY'LOCK, a Jew. POR'TIA, a rich Heiress, wife of Bassanio. Magnificoes of Venice, Officers of the SCENE I.-Venice.1 A Court of Justice. What is Antonio3 here? Ready, so please your grace. 6 I am sorry for thee: thou art come to answers I have heard Your grace12 hath ta'en great pains to qualify13 His rigorous course 14 but since he stands obdu'-răte,15 Out of his envy's reach,16 I do oppose My patience17 to his fury; and am arm'd (5) (10) 1. A city on the north-west side of the G. of Venice. From the 9th till the 16th century it was the most important, and the most splendid commercial city in Europe. 2. What, an interjection simply calling attention. It does not ask the question. 3. Antonio was a young merchant of Venice who lent money to people in distress and did not take any interest for it. 4. To swear or speak in return; to reply to. 5. Stony hearted; hard hearted. 6. One who is opposed to another. 7. A miserable, bad man. 8. Incapable. 9. Both words mean the same thing. 10. The smallest quantity. 11. Kind feeling; pity. 12. A title, or name, used in speaking to a duke. 13. To turn him from his cruel intention. 14. Cruel intention. 15. (Pro. ob-dū'-răt. Now we pro. ob'-du-rāt) very cruel. 16. Out of the reach of his hatred or malice. 17. I patiently bear his wicked anger. 18. Real. Draw maps (A) Scotland; (B) Europe, countries; (C) Africa, mountains, &c. Lesson 57.-Tuesday Morn. Geography. Write and Learn. SCOTLAND-LAKES. (A).-All the important lakes, except Loch Le'-ven, are cituated in the Highlands. The rivers in connection with the lakes often GO TO NEXT PAGE, LESSON 57-Continued. form beautiful waterfalls. The most noted one is the Falls of Fy'-ers, 277 feet in height, on the east of Loch Ness. The Falls of the Clyde, near Lan'-ark, are also celebrated. Loch Awe, in Argyle, is the next lake in size to Loch Lomond. It is long and narrow, and is emptied into Loch Et'-ive (ět'-ēv), an arm of Loch Lin'-nhe. Loch Le'-ven, in Kinross, is a small oval lake, and is chiefly interesting for its castle, on an island, in which Mary Queen of Scots was kept prisoner, and from which she escaped in 1568. Lochs Lochy and Ness are situated in Glenmore. They form part of the Caledonian Canal, which extends from Moray Firth and Inverness on the east, to Loch Eil (el) on the west, about 60 miles. It was begun in 1805 and opened in 1822, and was intended to obviate the passage of ships round the north coast; but it is shallow in parts, and is little used. (B).—COUNTRIES OF EUROPE, WITH THEIR CAPITALS, &c. (C).-Africa is a very compact continent, and is more than three times the size of Europe. The sea nearly surrounds it. It has the Mediterranean on the north, the Atlantic on the west, and the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea on the east. It is joined to Asia by the Isthmus of Suez, about 72 miles long. The Suez Canal (85 miles) is longer than the Isthmus, as it does not run in a straight line. The Gulf of Guin'-ea and Table Bay are the chief bays on the west, and the Moz-am-bique' (-beek') Channel and the Gulf of A'-den the principal parts of the sea on the east. The principal capes are Cape Verde, and the Cape of Good Hope on the west. MOUNTAINS AND PLAINS.-All the principal mountains appear to be round the coast, and the interior seems to consist chiefly of elevated [TURN OVER, LESSON 57-Continued. tablelands. The principal mountains are the At'-las Mts. in the north, the Kong Mts. in Upper Guinea, and the Mts. of Ab-yssin'-ia in the Nile district. There are some high mountains near the centre of the continent, amongst the lakes, south of the Equator. North of the Equator is the Great Desert or Sa-ha'-ra (á), the largest desert in the world. It stretches from the Atlantic to Egypt, and is about two-thirds the size of Europe. THE OCEAN-(Saltness continued). (D). The uses of the salt in the sea are (1) To prevent the water becoming corrupt or putrid. (2) To regulate evaporation, as salt water evaporates more slowly than fresh water. (3) To retard freezing. Owing to the amount of mineral matters dissolved in sea water it freezes at a lower temperature than fresh water. Hence the open sea is never frozen over, except towards the poles. Temperature of the Ocean. Large bodies of water keep a much more regular temperature than do large masses of land. Water is a bad conductor of heat, it therefore receives heat less readily than land, and also parts with it more slowly than the land does. In Polar regions the surface water is generally colder than the deep sea, and the heat rises with the depth, but in the open sea the surface temperature is higher than that of the deep water. The lowest layers of water, even under the equator, are generally at about the freezing point. It appears there is an underflow of cold water from the Polar Seas to the Tropics, which compensates for an overflow of the warm tropical waters towards the Poles. In enclosed seas the temperature generally remains the same after a certain depth, and does not decrease as lower depths are reached. Lesson 58.-Wednesday Morning. Work these Sums. (1) Find the banker's discount at 3 per cent on £937 14s. 7d. due 1 year hence. (2) A bill for £1,150 10s. 6d. is payable in 10 weeks 3 days at 41 per cent; find the banker's discount on it. (3) What is the trade discount on 50 guineas, due 14 months hence, at 6 per cent per annum ? (4) What principal will produce £48.125 interest in 125 years at 5 per cent, simple interest? (5) If 2.2 per cent is deducted from £760, how much remains? [GO TO NEXT PAGE, LESSON 58-Continued. Greek Prefixes.-Learn and Write. 13. hypo [TÓ] = under: as hypothesis, a placing under; hypocrite. 14. meta or met [uerá]=change or after: as metamorphosis, a change of form; metaphor, metonymy. 15. para, par, or pari [πapá]=by the side of, equal: as parable, a similitude; paradox, paragraph, paraphrase, parody, parallel. 16. peri [Tepi]=round: as period, a going round (of time); periphery. 17. syn, sy, syl, sym, or sys [ou]=together: as synthesis, a placing together; systole, syllable, sympathy, system. Lesson 59.—Thursday Morn. Grammar. Write and Learn. Ex. 1. Analyse and Parse the words in italics. By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; To dwell a weeping hermit there.—(W. Collins.) Ex. 2. Paraphrase the above (i.e., turn into prose). Ex. 3. Break up the following words into prefix, stem, and affix, and give the meaning as shown by the component parts (NOTE.—The stem is that part of the word which is formed from, or contains the root, and to which the prefix and affix is attached): Contradict, interdiction, predict, adjourn, sojourn, disciplinarian. Affixes.-Learn and Write. I.-AFFIXES FORMING NOUNS. 1. Denoting the agent or doer of a thing. *ar, as li-ar, begg-ar. *ard or *art, as drunk-ard, slugg-ard, *er, as writ-er, do-er. * English ending. Lesson 60.-Friday Morning. tane, } *ster, as game-ster, spin-ster. † Latin ending. = Work these Sums. (1) What trade discount would be given on £14,924 11s. 8d., due in 25 days' time, at 2 per cent? (2) £370 is due 14 weeks 2 days hence; if this sum was put out at simple interest at 41 per cent per annum, find the discount on it. (3) A bill of £560 12s. Od. is due in 9 months at 33 per cent per annum; what banker's discount would be given ? (4) I pay £81 8s. 3d. in settlement of a bill for goods value £83 10s.; what is the percentage of discount allowed me? (5) Find the compound interest on £480 for 3 years at 2 per cent per annum. COMPOSITION.-Describe a voyage from Newcastle-on-Tyne round England to Liverpool, noting particularly anything of interest you would be likely to see, or write a letter on the weather. |