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SIXPENCE.

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broussailles et épines as a sort of “chasse défendue” and COMMON EXAMINATION ERRORS. eschew setting any question that bears on them.

Unfortunately, however, there are certain points IV.FRENCH.

affected by the decree which will be always turnBy CloudESLEY BRERETON, M. A. Cantab.,

ing up in practice, as, for instance, the agreement Licencié-és-Lettres.

of the past participles. In the present article it

certainly seems best to leave all these thorny T is rather difficult at the present time to write points in abeyance, especially as many of them

an article on common mistakes in French ex- are such as should only be set for the most ad.

aminations. When the French Ministry last vanced students. July took the bull by the horns and issued their Besides, there are many amongst us who believe statesmanlike Edict of Tolerance for the numerous there are other and better methods of learning a peccadilloes and petty offences in orthography and language than by commencing to master the exsyntax that the grammatical casuists of the seven- ceptions, which the older type of examiner seemed teenth and eighteenth centuries had managed to to presume to be the correct way. We are in introduce into the code which governs the correct favour of setting typical rather than catch queswriting and spelling of French, the reform was tions, unless the latter are of every day occurrence greeted with enthusiam by the primary teachers of in the language. Anyone who has had a spell of the country, and their joy found an echo in every teaching is well aware that the pupil of fourteen land where French is taught. But the Ministry knows so little, and one would rather try to find

to have reckoned without those literary out what he does know than what he doesn't Pharisees, so numerous in France, to whom every know. The latter at best is but a negative test; jot and tittle, be it but a hyphen or an apo- and then again, one is certain, a priori, that his strophe, is as precious as the language itself. The ignorance far surpasses his knowledge, and that Academy has intervened, and the Decree has been examinations, in so far as they tend to the withdrawn.

learning of mere tips, of things useful in exIn no country was the decree welcomed with amination, but not in real life, are not to be engreater delight than in England. For years the couraged. papers set in our public examinations, with certain Perhaps, however, the most difficult point conexceptions, have been crowded with many of these nected with the discussion of common mistakes in Chinese puzzles, so dear to the old-fashioned type examinations, and an attempt to give hints about of examiners who, knowing neither the real diffi- them, is that it is impossible in the nature of culties of candidates, whether “small or great,” things that a really satisfactory examination paper nor what was veritably essential to a working can be framed to suit more than one form of knowledge of French, were fond of setting these teaching ; whereas at the present time there are hair-splitting problems, which would test the at least two distinct methods of teaching in the knowledge of an average bachelier. To English field, not to mention the numerous sub-varieties. teachers the ministerial decree reads like a general Considering that the great majority of teaching is proscription of the unhappy entanglements that it still on the orthodox semi-classical lines, it is was once lawful, and indeed usual, to set for the clear that the papers set must be principally luckiess candidates in modern languages whom the framed to fit in with that form of instruction. old-fashioned examiner looked on so many

But the fact remains that many of the mistakes feræ naturæ that it was his bounden duty to entrap that a pupil brought up on the direct method and ensnare.

would make are not those which one under classiBut the present suspension, for practically it is cal training would be likely to commit, and vice a suspension, of these numerous rules lands us in versa. Take, for instance, the common confusion a worse plight than when they were in full vigour made by French people and phonetically-taught and rigour. What are teachers to teach and ex- children between quand and quant. The Latinaminers to set ? Probably the best thing for the taught pupil having always quantum and quando latter would be to look on all these grammatical before his eyes will, even in a piece of dictation,

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