where in a month they increased from four members to twenty-one; and another of twenty members at =Sabetha=, including the professor of the high school, and the teachers in the community. =York, Neb.=, has lately organized a circle of fifteen members. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. FIFTY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON PREPARATORY LATIN COURSE IN ENGLISH—FROM PAGE 167 TO END OF BOOK. By A. M. MARTIN, GENERAL SECRETARY C. L. S. C. 1. Q. Of what is the Fifth Book of “Cæsar’s Commentaries” mainly one unbroken record? A. Of disasters to Cæsar’s armies, barely retrieved from being irreparable. 2. Q. With what episode does this book begin? A. The last expedition, on Cæsar’s part, to Great Britain. 3. Q. After Cæsar’s return to Gaul, what did the poor harvests compel him to do with his legions for the winter? A. To distribute them to different points. 4. Q. What chance did this seem to offer to the natives? A. To fall on the Roman camps simultaneously and overpower them one by one. 5. Q. By whom was one legion commanded that was destroyed by the Gauls under Ambiorix? A. By Titurius Sabinus. 6. Q. What lieutenant of Cæsar again encounters the Nervii, and is with difficulty rescued by Cæsar? A. Cicero, a brother of the great orator. 7. Q. With what account is the Sixth Book largely occupied? A. With an account of the ineffectual efforts of Cæsar to capture Ambiorix. 8. Q. In the narrative of the Seventh Book, who becomes the head of the last and greatest confederate revolt of Gaul against Rome? A. Vercingetorix. 9. Q. After the final defeat and surrender of Vercingetorix, what was his fate? A. He was taken to Rome and there beheaded. 10. Q. By whom was the Eighth Book of the “Commentaries” written? A. By Aulus Hirtius, one of Cæsar’s lieutenants. 11. Q. What does this book relate? A. The incidents of the last Gallic campaign. 12. Q. How did Cæsar raise his legions and wage war? A. On his own responsibility. His wars were mostly personal wars, and had no sanction of government. 13. Q. What do Cicero’s writings form? A. What has been finely called a library of reason and eloquence. 14. Q. What is the amount of reading in “Cicero’s Orations” required for entrance at most colleges? A. The four orations against Catiline, and two or three others variously chosen. 15. Q. From what oration of Cicero does our author first give an extract? A. His oration for Marcus Marcellus. 16. Q. What was the occasion of this oration? A. The pardon by Cæsar of Marcellus, who had fought for Pompey against Cæsar in the civil war, and was now living in exile. 17. Q. What gave rise to Cicero’s orations against Catiline? A. The Catiline conspiracy, which contemplated the firing of Rome and the death of the Senate, as well as the personal and political enemies of the conspirators. 18. Q. How many are there of these orations against Catiline? A. Four. 19. Q. Where were the first and last delivered? A. In the Senate.