A very detailed account of the subjects of the entrance examination is drawn out, and inserted in the _Journal Militaire_, and the _Moniteur_ every year. The following are the subjects:-- (1.) Trigonometry and Topography. (2.) Regular Topography--the measuring of plane surfaces and leveling. (3.) Irregular Topography, Plane Trigonometry. (4.) Military Art and History, including-- (_a._) History of Military Institutions at the chief periods. (_b._) Present composition of the French army. (_c._) Organization of an army in the field. (_d._) History of some of the most memorable campaigns, as those of 1796-97 in Italy, and of 1805 and 1809, in Germany. (5.) Artillery and Science of Projectiles. (6.) Field Fortification and Castremetation. (7.) Permanent Fortification. (8.) Military Legislation. (9.) Military Administration. (10.) Manœuvres. (11.) German Language. (12.) Drawing. The marks assigned and the influence allowed to each of these subjects are the same as those given in the final examination at St. Cyr. The entrance examination places the students in order of merit. THE STUDIES. All the details of the teaching are in the hands of a Council of Instruction, similar to that of the Polytechnic, and consisting of the General Commandant (President,) the Director of Studies, and three Military Professors, appointed yearly by rotation. Other professors and assistant professors, or officers of the staff of the school, may be called in to assist the Council, but (except in deciding the list at an examination) they have no votes. This council does not interfere directly with the administration, the common work of the school. It draws up, indeed, the list of lectures, making any alterations in them, or in the books to be used which may seem from time to time desirable. But the officer accountable for the daily working of the school is the Director of Studies. His functions appeared to us to bring him into more constant connection with the pupils than was the case with the director of the Polytechnique. In all the schools the General Commandant and the Director of Studies live in the establishment; but at the _Ecole d’Application_ and at St. Cyr the director “examines the methods of teaching, and proposes to the Council of Instruction any modifications or improvements which may raise or quicken the instruction. He inspects the work of the student-officers, both in and out of the school. He keeps a register of the marks given by the professors, and at the end of every three months brings the sum of them before the General Commandant in a detailed report.” In fact, his school functions are not modified, as at the Polytechnic, by a body of able professors. As already stated, there are fifteen professors, without reckoning those of equitation, and thirteen of them are officers; but the system of _Répétiteurs_, which we have seen so influential at the Polytechnic, does not exist here.