_History:_ History of France from the time of Charles VII. to that of the Emperor Napoleon I. and the treaties of 1815. _Geography_, relating entirely to France and its colonies, both physical and statistical. _German:_ the candidates must be able to read fluently both the written and printed German character, and to reply in German to simple questions addressed to them in the same language. The general system of instruction at St. Cyr is similar to that of the Polytechnic; the lectures are given by the professors, notes are taken and completed afterwards, and progress is tested in occasional _interrogations_ by the _répétiteurs_. One distinction is the different size of the _salles d’étude_ (containing two hundred instead of eight or ten;) but, above all, is the great and predominant attention paid to the practical part of military teaching and training. It is evident at the first sight that this is essentially a military school, and that especial importance is attached both by teachers and pupils to the drill, exercise, and manœuvers of the various arms of the service. The course of study is completed in two years; that of the first year consists of:-- 27 lectures in descriptive geometry. 35 “ physical science. 20 “ military literature. 35 “ history. 21 “ geography and military statistics. 30 “ German. --- Total, 174 In addition to the above, there is a course of drawing between the time when the students join the school early in November and the 15th of August. The course of _drawing_ consists in progressive studies of landscape drawing with the pencil and brush, having special application to military subjects, to the shading of some simple body or dress, and to enable the students to apply the knowledge which has been communicated to them on the subject of shadows and perspective. This course is followed by the second or junior division during the first year’s residence. The course of lectures in _descriptive geometry_ commences with certain preliminary notions on the subject; refers to the representation of lines on curved surfaces, cylindrical and conical, surfaces of revolutions, regular surfaces, intersection of surfaces, shadows, perspective, vanishing points, &c., construction of geographical maps, and _plan côté_. The lectures in _physical science_ embrace nine lectures on the general properties of bodies; heat, climate, electricity, magnetism, galvanism, electro-magnetism, acoustics. There are twelve lectures in _chemistry_; on water, atmospheric air, combustibles, gas, principal salts, saltpetre, metallurgy, organic chemistry.