পাতা:Reminiscences Speeches And Writings Of Sir Gooroo Dass Banerjee Reminiscences pt. 1.pdf/১৭৫

58 EVENTs (). His LIFE. From a purely legal point of view this argument is quite sound. But from a literary or even an economic point of view, thore are considerations in favour of the rule which ought not to be lost sight of. The writing of a now text-book on a subject on which there are at least equally good books already in existenco, involves waste of energy and money which might be better employed in other ways, if a rule like the one enunciated above were enforced. To counteract the eflect of a rule like this in preventing the distribution of public patronago, the Educational Authorities should be moved to pass a rulc requiring the revision of the courses of study for the several Public Examinations so as not to allow the same book to continue as the text-book for more than fivo or six consecutive years, if any other equally good book is to be found in the list of authorized text-books. I have rotained this rule tentatively to see what view others, and especially my learned colleagues, may take of it. 7. The foregoing rules contain nothing now, nor have thcy any pretension to porfection or completeness. They are rules which (veryone ontrusted with the duty of selecting text-books follows more or less; and their formal enunciation is intended only (1) to place in a connected form before the eye rules which are genearally followed but which may be sometimes overlooked, and (2) to lot authors of text-books know what we want, and what night be said of their