( S) ) be rather , inhumanà tó places them in the akwadi predicament 6f tanríkifify manipulating Arithmetical Figures in English, and of shamefully mispro nouncing and misspelling Geographical names and natees of other sorts in that tongue. The teachers in most schools in imparting tuition to their pupils on the aforesaid subjects, avail themselves largely, I and aware, of the medium of the vernaculars. To this extent, should think, the medium in questiori ray be safely utilised in the present circunstances of the Oountry, but no farther. (2) The second proposal commands my healty approval, Even in the face of the most obvious and lamenable dearth of standard works in Bengali literature (I do not know how the matters stand in the literature of other vernaculars). I am in full sympathy with the suggestion of making the study of Bengali in the F. A., and B. A. Examinations of the University, supplementary to the study of Sanskrit classics. Yours faithfully, KHUD RAE BOSE. 38; From BABty KUNJA LAL NAG, Principal, agaaraath College, Dacca. TO The Hon’ble Justice Goorodass Banerjee, M. A., D. L. Babu Rabindra Nath Tagore, Rajani Kanta Gupta, Mr. Nanda Krishna Bose, M.A. C.S. Babu. Eirendra Nath Datta, M.A., B.L. Datad, Daeca, 29th January, 895. GENTIEMEN, In reference to your Circular letter, dated the 5th January last, inviting expression of opinion upon the wider recognition of the Indian vernaculars as a medium of instruction and a subject of examination, I have the honour to say that, in my opinion, these languages ought not to be made the medium of instruction in the Entrance Examination, unless they are to be recognized vehicles of thought in the higher examinations as well. With all the importance attached to and all the attention extorted in behalf of English by the University, it continues to be the most fatal of all subjects. A third part of the total autober of undeks it assigned to it in the Entrance and
