শৈশব ও তাৎকালিক শিক্ষা । is referring, the student who is the author of them must, besides a most extraordinary memory, and faculty of expression in English, write it with a rapidity which is rare even among Englishmen, for these answers occupy very nearly two columns of the Hurkaru very closely printed in brevier type. We write tolerably fast but we doubt if we could write the quantity in the same time; and we are quite sure that we could not write so much twice over without allowing a moment for thought and recollection. If Rajnarain Bose wrote his answers at once, he cannot have taken any time to recall all the historical facts embodied in his answers but have written them off as if writing from a book and not from memory and his performance, despite some slight mistakes in matter and style, is really most extraordinary. He has not passed over a single question. He has answered every one in the most detailed manner generally with great accuracy and interpersed his answers with remarks that show considerable powers of reflection and discrimination. How comes it that he could not beat the essayist at the work, for the subject of the essay afforded great advantage to one whose mind is so well stored with historical facts and who writes with such extraordinary ease and rapidity? The subject given was: "On the effects produced on the fortunes of different nations and of mankind in general by the individual character of remarkable persons illustrated from History." questions should surely have been able to write a The author of the answers to the historical
