Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1856-10-27

FSo,r ne London 7im,., Sent. 20.

AMOS ho~ much ts future must e,end ,
progress made by the rising IndiAn generation No q.
seh'oe We Ssrh 70 the Asistc mind gradually mb
"s european ideas and tastes through medium OF
P'' history and bter.tare and 80 gradually training
io al active and useful Indian public and socis
Improvement w. thereior- opened .ith some curio-i
'h- raPer' relating to the examination held al Ephin
stone College. Bombay, December 1895" pubL.hed bv
'he bombay Government and especially the report of Mr.
the examiner IN 'Hisory and English Literature,
including composition" fine report l. In some re-pec,.
satisfactory, and encouraging Tn, Irdian Youth ,rr
not detective ia spirit Eng-h literature ard
Try they Itf-ss snd they sre,seS
snee' the Anglican, or European and display aud.be
ambition TO be something than Hrioo- Unfortu
ha'e5 the native quiekness the solid aids
o. true scholar like patience and attention To deail.
'a' appcaiioD which masters the mnut well as the
general f-anrrs oa language Th. is pity as the min.
us and details o language so very impor,.n, and
Characteristic part oft We will begin wIth spelling
MI Howard has 10 lament this obstin.t. and e.c
nal mistake in Indian English seholashp Ii /. sae thai
We must not assume ourselves asoas and sensitive
airs on this subject a. nothing is common among
even veil educated English than bad spellns n 4.
: ''e' 'ha' many persons oi large knowledge aud
literary refinement and taste spell badly We Need
"hrus 20 TO the younger class under education for
-pccinens OF this deficiency aud our reader. i no, 49,
al all surprised that at examination of we'll cdu
ted youths one OF them describe the English ia the d,S
ot the Empress Maude as 'disdaning to be uodsr ,k
yolk OF woman We will not then be hard .no, ~
indian youths OF Ephnsone College for certain
VERSIONS OF ccebrated names-Ceesrs Cattsline
'us Ceaser, Burke, and Oambe nor wl We criticize
'c'ep we seeoayear student, who begins his answers
upon e HE and works Of poet Rogers by soepg thai
ge"uenans name samel Rodgers and in the course M
passing on TO the aesthetic portion OF his subject
'rea's as u the information that the poseal works f
samuel Roger Is OF peculiar kini,H Ar. Howard had
hearu these Toaihs ciassed by their proies
s o S,'n .ne der graduates Of Trinity College Dublin
ana me young gentleman HALEY bury EIphin,tooe CI
ege sneehng VA India the level OF university among
and therefore, though he attributes this est.
@ ae 70 he Ianacous result OF previous exsmna-
IONS Is soIne~hat disappointed this display He at,ri
duties u u caeesness and the omission OF the good pr.c
ice o' oGgh copies at least he is good naturedy ny
70 account ior u 10 this way because the speier
surely mIs eei Tor instance that the province oi hretay
"e could not be represented bv tue letters raon or the
port Calais by the rtonpsylabIe Cuils Nor could an
n'egent and hshly placed student Of the second wear
nave realty Intended TO make the breeze 'vsper' In the
gale or compliment Oliver Goldsmith ua the ssvs OF his
HistOrV Of Esgiand" - 'S
Another pecuiarty which struck Mr Howard was a te
"e,"t w PuiuPg 90 paper phrases which the student
-h the los, ordinary self examination must have felt
nc had no night 10 'Some Of the best psnern he
observes ARE deforned by this Of sense and mo-
"esH' one young man oil great NEXT alludes to ShaE
peafes play do what you Like; another 10 the benutv
OF feuarchs sonhets, which il certain he had never
read even IN transation another extos the Augustsn
sge which produced the poet With his ustrious
contemporaries, Horace, Dante and yirxilv YET no
failures discourage the young intellectual Hndo; he at
'aeAs Tue next question OF English literary history or ert
es win nnabated visour and sAnguine confidence Th~
Is All ePigrmmatc in the style in WHICH rs s,a
tents nl succession commence ,Ieir paper on Pope:-
United With swift ia friendship and faas-, bot Tar sur
passing him ia genius, Alexander POPE lis M,
Howard Tells the beginning of an article OH Pon- in
tAa"Sera CycfoPodid The memory of the Indian stu.
ieh' ho"e'er sometimes fails in master ing the anhe-
ss hacaaay aud the sseeping concentrations OF He
ren Mr.. Macsuay saws in his ESSAY o.; Lord N,bonis
HsrThe SeeessO', that "Es tLord Peterborough. yr
tues and vices Sers aose OF the Round Table Indeed his
character eau hardly be better summed up than in hos
lines Ia which the snthor OF that clever little noen NJ. r.
and Giant" has described Sir Trstram" The Indian stu
ients version OF the statement converts Sir Trram into
the author -F Trssram describes his lord Peterto
ough Character ently under these two s,anzas
Sc question in the ''Exa animation Papers on the
AnAehonsms OF Shakespeare puts the Yoaps Indian stu
dent particularly his mette and ec;ts most
display at criticism with eopious nlustaoos The NAV
o Aia<slzss. NsyAfs Dream is full of anachronsus
In 1t We see persons like Theseus HippoytA (2) De-
nr'ru (Sl Lysander Il Hernia (5) Heena (6) Oberor
n sud iitaniA Isl IN love respectively ) with e. Isl
Hnd 4) With 5) but the in love with tl (6l and f
and the 90 with (s. After reader has anprscatei
no less apropos
"ln Hidsimusr yiyhfs Dream whore Bottom 6nd- !
out devise oi not rghtning the ladies' ~ an anachro
ulsn nor better assurance tell them that l. Pyramus
am hot Pyramus, but Bottom the weaver Bottom COM
ng on the stage with ass head il anachronisn also
representing wall moonshine is anschronisn
The yonng student pursues his subject and treats Us TO
the following specimen o dramatic criticism aud En0Iish
composition O these aDachronisms he remnks-
are e1eusable or useful so long they are not
acted for the attempt 20 represent vail moonshiHe
on te stage - IN entire failure Again. when Bottoms
pArt acted OH the stage, il nothing but an ass head
surely gnAion and stage do resemble one another
foI h'd"NnsT Ntghfs Dream when acted is converted
rom dehghtful hcuon into dull pantominie IT, short
all snaehronisms when acted fail entirely Of decoTums
Another Young Indian critic gives specimens OF ana.
ehr'nism-Lieess things sPe Akng and performing parts
OF actors like men namely pcascod eobErb tie 6ottoot
and the sa Another discusses the distinction betu
historical and dramatic truths addncing Pyramus and
Thlsoe as examples Of historical truth tans Oberou
and Puck a. specimens Of dramatic
From the material OF poetry We come No she dre.. and
torn aud We hnd that the Indian not very sensitive
TO EnghSh Proodya deficiency which considerably in.
srteTes with the charm OF their poetca ctatous and A
tracts from the effect Of otheruise very
papers. young student o., high in his class cites
the quotations ot Hamlet in which he expresses h deas
beautifully illustrates thus"-
"Ahi that shi. TOO solid aesh would melt,
Ihaw and resolve itself into dew
Or that the Everlasting had not fixed his canon
For selfslaughier."
Al sns-er TO "a question Addisou'. poem Of the
Campaign eicts the following citation from that poem
"ln shrhl clanguor animates the war /
Confederate drumbs IN full concert beat
tfalias proud ho-g to Bavaria Joined
The great Marlborough yet uninoved
Amidst the shock Of battle proved.
Heaven shakes some guilty land
Such days as Britannia passed.
To which he adds as note. "1t very noisy var
coleueFatts IN tuu cOundcuce beat The dFumhs."
We quote these specimens Of the replies The Ephin
stone examination papers om wish TO discourage the
Spirited chor's Of the native Indian youth IN the line o
English literature but rather second the very suitable
cautions which hr. Howard sppends his report The
Indian youth Obviously tends rather display than 70 90
dity and system Of education TO be Of real service 70
him must resist this tendency check the too early
the crude growth Of information and allow him
10 think thst because he has got on BY rotc few gene
falitatons OF history. picked up second baud fev
crnon' of criticism, therefore he i Engs scholar
lie obviously wants system which keeps him back and
forcing him into contsot with the elementary minut and
details OF language, does not soW him TO erect his super
structure un he has laid the foundation Tie uunts In
short more Of the system Of our public sboob tbsn
he II present seems 10 have.
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