Vo গ্ৰাম্য উপাখ্যান । ইংরাজী ভাষায় সম্পাদিত এ দেশীয় কোন সংবাদপত্ৰ जन्oालक दक्षिभ्रांछन :- 'Why and how it is we know not, but it is a fact, that with his Mohabharat and Subhunkar, his coarse Dhuti and clumsy slippers, the old venerable looking Brahmin of Bhatpara was a healthy, strong and stout specimen of humanity, but the modern Baboo with his Shakespeare and Milton, his china-coat and tight boots his Municipality and lahadurship, is a Sorry, shrunken creature, a fit illustration of dyspepsia, whose income only goes to fatten the doctor and the druggist. The Nuddea Pandit in days gone by used to eat voraciously both smriti and luchis, doing justice to both and proving beyond a doubt that his stomach was as capacious as his brain and his muscles as vigorous as his intellect. But look at those illiputian bipeds, crawling out of the Senate-house after passing matriculation examination, looking as if they had meant to go to the adjoining Hospital, but had by mistake entered the Senate house. The greater the civilization and academic culture, the more emaciated and sickly looks the product of our university.' “কেন এবং কি কারণে এইরূপ হইয়াছে আমরা বলিতে পারি না । কিন্তু কেহই অস্বীকার করিবেন না। যে সে কালের মহাভারত ও শুভঙ্কর অধ্যায়ী, মোটা ধুতি ও ধূলিপূর্ণ চটিজুতা পরিধায়ী, ভাটপাড়ার শ্রদ্ধাভাজন sk Indian Mirror, Sunday Edition. I5th December -1878.
