( זך ) through another book in ignorance of the University text-book, it is at once set aside and this new book they are to take up. Why? For the purposes of sound education? No, for in that case the students might have increased their stock of knowledge and range of studies by reading the other book. It is only that they may bring all their intellectual weight to bear upon that one Book-which is to be their salvation at the University Examination. They must “grapple" the book “to their heart with hoops of steel !" Such being the condition of affairs, the Parishad cannot expect that the amendment will at all be workable. Bengalee is singularly neglected in almost every school in the lower classes, simply because they find no pressure laid by the University, and unless the University comes to the rescue, this condition of affairs bids fair to be permanent. Leaving aside the amendment, I may now take up the original Resolution. The study of History and Mathematics through the medium of Bengalee is not likely to contribute much towards a real acquisition of the Language. There will be an economy of labour, one doubts not, for the candidates in getting up these subjects; but that is not the object the Parishad has in view. The real knowledge and clear appreciation of the literature must be the only way of scouring this object ; and thus nothing short of the inclusion of Bengalee as a distinct subject of study should satisfy the Parishad. There is again the positively mischievous side of the scheme proposed. Should the medium of instruction in the Entrance Examination be Bengalee, there will be insuprable obstacles in the way of the candidates, when they g) in or study for the higher Examinations. The very same inconveniences, that the majority of students coine to be under after having passed the Middle English and Middle Vernacular Examinations, will come over all these matriculates. The cause of High Education will thus be seriously damaged-unless the Parishad, in an expiatory and consistent spirit adopt in a future meeting the Resolution that Subjects like History &c. should always be studied-in the lower as well as the higher Examinationsthrough the medium of Bengalee. Should we now push the present attitude of the Parishad to its necessary reductio ad obsurdum, our institutions will be but a more refined species of Normal Schools as under the Director of Public Instruction, and surely the most orthodox amongst the members of the Parishad will not deem such "consummation most devoutly to be wished.' No interchange of thought in the distant future will be possible between Bengal and Europe. Bengal will be denied her place in the re-public of letters and no contributions to the Mathematical or Scientific literature of England may be expected of us in self-centred Bengal. What Sorry specimens of humanity must our graduates then be
