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( 68 ) Examinations I need only tell you at the outset that the number of text books in the F. A. is already a little to many. But at the same time I must admit that all these text-books are not of equal importance and some of them in my opinion may be safely spared to make room for the vernacular languages. To illustrate what I mean by concrete examples, I beg leave to point out to you that such a book as Mr. Taylor's or Dr. Mukerjee's Conic Sections is in my opinion altogether superfluous. One may safely manage to live and die peacefully without taking the trouble of going through such a text book as that. As a rule F. A., students fail to digest the fundamental principles of Conic Sections and in my opinion the ommission of such a book, will in no way affect their intellectual development. I should only feel overjoyed, if instead of such hard morsels as only have the effects of breaking the young jaws of native students and spoiling their intellectual digestion, some text-books in their own vernacular be introduced by the University of Calcutta. In the B. A. Examination instead of introducing Vernacular text-books I should like to propose a compulsary Essay paper, in Vernacular of course, together with questions calculated to test the student's general knowledge of their own Vernacular language and literature. Yours faithfully, LAL GoPAL CHAKRAVARrt, Professor, English and Philosophy, Ripon College From BAbU LOLIT KUMER BANERJEE M. A. Professor, Ripon College. TO BANGIYA SAH ITYA PARISHAID, Calcutta. Calcutta, 3Ist January 1895. GENTLEMEN, In reply to your Circular letter dated the 5th instant, I beg leave to offer you the following suggestion ament the question of the inclusion of Bengalee in the University Curriculum. I may start with the observation that the necessity of the recognition of Bengalee as one of the subjects of study in the lower University Exmans. appears to paramount and that the present system of such recognition is clumsy, perfunctory and productive of more harm than good.