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( 88 ) latter, the inculcation of a taste for classical language as is to be presumed from the subject having been made optional at the B. A. Fxamination, I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obdt, servant, RAJENDRA NATH BANERJEE, Headmaster, Ravenshaw Collegiate School Cuttack. From BABU RAMDass CHAKRAVARTI, To BABU RABINDRA NATHI TAGORE, HONORABLE DR. GOOROO DAS BANERI, N. K. BOSE ESQ. PANDIT RAJANI KANTA GUPTA. BABU HIIRENDRA NATHI DATTA. GENTLEMEN, I beg to acknowledge receipt of your communication dated the 5th instant. In reply to the two points on which you ask for my opinion, I should beg to observe that I do not approve at all of the first proposal I should consider it a suicidal measure if it were carried into effect. I am not aware of any Bengalee books that can fitly take the place of English books in teaching History, Geography and Mathematics to Entrance candidates nor can I conceive the possibility of such books coming into existence in the near future and supplanting the use of English books. The English langnage has been enriched in the course of ages, and for precision, clearness and expressiveness will hold its own against its Bengalee rival. It does not seem to me how a language that is not yet formed out is in process of formation can supplant a language that is full and well-developed. 2. Then again the English is a Universal language; it is the language of the civilised world, it is the language not only of Englishmen but of