Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-05-18
BRoksoN LIBRARY EXAMS.
Only Two Attained 7O-Nisses Dav,

and Church Successful Ones.
 The result of the examination for apprentices in the Bronson library
 was made known to-day. Two only of the eight candidates attained the
 required standard of 70 per cent in the tests in literature and general in- formation. The successful ones were Miss Josephine Davis and Miss s. N. Church.
 The questions were prepared by the librarian and submitted for ap- proyal to Bernard Fitzpatrick, prin- cipal of the Croft school, and mem Der of the board of agents. Mir Fitz- patrick also gave some time to the conduct of the examination, and the correction of the papers.
 The following are the questions that were submitted to the candi- dates:
 1. What places of interest would you most like to see Tn the following cities: Milan, Antwerp, London, Paris, New York, Washington, Jeru- salem, Athens?
 2. Name the present rulers of Austria, Germany, Italy and Mexico; President Roosevelts secretaries of state. of commerce and of war; the president of Princeton university; the governor of Connecticut.
 3. Give some account of the char acter, policy, etc, of one of the men named in answer to question 2.
 4. Discuss briefly some social or economic question that seems to you of importance in the United States at the present time.
 5. For what are the following per sons known: Hendrix Hudson, Clara Barton, Peary, Confucius, Seth Low, Marcella Sembrich, Frances Willard, Charlotte Corday, Sir c. Purdon Clark. John Mitchell, Father Gapon, Gutenberg. William Travers Jerome, Jacob Riis, Sergius Witte, Theodore Thomas. Booker Washing ton. (Answer ten of these.)
 6. Name one famous artist each of the Italian, Spanish, Dutch, French and English schools
 z. Name three important trans steamship lines.
 8. What Is suggested to your mind by the following: The Duma, the Hague, Red Cross, Chinese ex- triple alliance, municipal ownership, Pan-American railway, Isthmian canal, the corporation prob lem, the Hepburn bill, joint state hood. the "muck-rake" speech, treaty of Portsmouth. (Answer eight)
 The following questions in gen eral literature were submitted:
 1. Name five of the best novelists in English literature (not including Scott and Dickens) and one work of each.
 2. Give the title of story of sea fife, an historical novel, war story, l tale of slavery, a novel of purpose. !
 8. Name one well known poem by | Shelley, Wordsworth, Browning, Ten tyson, Bryant. Lowell, Burns, Byron, Scott, Longfellow, Whittier.
 4. With the names of what au hors do you associate the following places: Old Manse, East India House, Rydal Mount, Brook Farm, vailima, Ayr, Weimar, Abbotsford.
 5. Mention three magazines FHlCu ucdl With utCidiy ouuJSSto, md three which deal with current vents.
 6. Who wrote the following: rristram Shandy, Anna no oKarepinasl aasselas, Arcadia, Jerusalem Deliy- red, Odyssey, Wilhelm Meister, 'everil of the Peak, Treasure Island, dontcalm and Wolfe, Sesame and lilies, Walden, vicomte de Brage- onne. Don Quixote, Confessions of n Opium Eater, Adventures of Alice n Wonderland. Canterbury Tales. Answer ten.)
 [. In what class of literature do he works of the following belong: 'harles Lamb, Moliere, La Fontaine, ,bers, Grote, Maeterlinck, Pepys, 'horeau, Herbert Spencer, Walt Whitman, Tolstoi. Sheridan, Leasing. len Jonson. J. R. Green. Matthew .rnold, Boswell Answer ten.)
 S. What do the following suggest } your mind: Camelot. Psyche, cylla and Charybdis. Proserpine, Ioly Grail, Argonauts. Cyclops, Sieg- ried. (Answer flve.)
 g. Give your opinion as to wheth- r the work of each of the following uthors are of high or low grade as i, terature, and arrange the authors ames in order of your personal reference: Jane Austen, Marie orelli, Laura Jean Libbey, Nathan I Hawthorne. Rosa Carey, Booth arlington, Conan Doyle. Thackeray, ITS Humphrey Ward.