( 36 ) the style and structure of a language which is quite foreign to them and which is, by no means, an easy thing for a beginner to learn. At the same time it gives them an ample opportunity of being conversant with the various modes of expressing the multifarious civil and political relations of life in English. Of course the facts and the philosophy it teaches are the same in whatever garb they may be presented before the boys. The effect of the conversion of many schools into the vernacular basis, has not been quite satisfactory. The former Middle Vernacular Schools turned out excellent vernacular scholars, who subsequently distinguished themselves in the Entrance schools, and always passed the Entrance Examination very Creditably, but such good scholars cannot be expected from the class of Middle English schools thus converted. The reason seems to be this:-In the Middle English schools boys are taught only in the English text, while the other subjects are taught in the Vernaculars. The result has been that those boys who after passing the Middle Examination come for admission into the Entrance Schools, are admitted into the fourth class, which corresponds to the highest class of Middle English schools, from which they come, i. e. they read two years the same English course; and that they are much inferior in English to most of the boys who are systematically trained in the Entrance Schools from the very beginning. I am far from under-rating the value and importance of a vernacular language being systematically taught in our High Schools and Colleges, heartily agree to the proposal of making the study of vernacular languages an additional subject of the curriculum in the F. A. and B. A. Examinations by making composition in and translation into the vernaculars a part of the required test, have the honour to be, SIR, Your most obedient Servant, RATANMANI. GUPTA, Headmaster, Dacca Collegiate School. 2. From BABU GOLAP CHANDRA SARKAR M.A., B.L. Vakil, High Court, To The Members of the Committee of the Bangiya Sahitya Parishad. Dated, Calcutta, ist February 1895. SIRS, I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter about the desirability of introducing the Bengali and the other vernacular languages as the
