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156 EVENTS OF HIs LIFE. VI. An elementary text-book on any subject other than Literature should only deal with those broad points of the subject which a general student can fairly bo expected to retain in his memory; and it should never be encumbered with such details as can properly find a place only in books of reference or advanced text-books. Thus, for instance, an elementary Grammar should not be encumbered with details of unusual inflectional forms, an clementary Geography with figures denoting the populations and areas of different countries, an clementary History with dates of unimportant events, nor an elementary Arithmetic with tables of local weights and measures of foreign countries. VII. (a) Primers in English and Bengali should not contain spelling lossons with hard or unusual words. (l, Elementary text-books in Iiteraturc, when they are compilations, should, as a rule, consist of such selections from Nttnclord stthor's, as can be easily explained to, and intelligently understood by, boys in this country; and the names of the authors and of the works from which the selections are made should always be mentioned. VIII. Toxt-books on Grammar should aim principally at teaching rotect modes of speaking and ariting, and the teaching of technical distinctions and niceties should be subservient to the principal object.