CONTENTS. Abbot of Innisfallen, The: A Killarney Legend. By WILLIAM ALLINGHAM. American Union, Has England an Interest in the Disruption of the? By GOLDWIN Arnold, Mr. Matthew, and the Great Public Schools: Eton At the Door: A Dorsetshire Poem. By WILLIAM BARNES Biography at a Discount. By CHARLES ALLSTON COLLINS. Bodies and Souls: A Discursive Paper: With Glimpses of the City of Bath Châlons-The Camp, and Fête Napoleon. By the Rev. FRANCIS TRENCH Corruption at Elections: "Mr. Christie's Suggestions." By F. D. MAURICE Corruption at Elections and The Saturday Review. By W. D. CHRISTIE Dead Men whom I have known; or, Recollections of Three Cities. By the EDITOR :- Girls' Schools. By ARCHIBALD MACLAREN, of the Gymnasium, Oxford Hawthorne, Nathaniel. By EDWARD DICEY Herrings and Lochfyne, A Gossip about. By J. G. BERTRAM Hillyars and the Burtons, The: A Story of Two Families. By HENRY KINGSLEY, Author of "AUSTIN ELLIOT," "RAVENSHOE," &c. :- Metals, The Precious, Distribution and Value of, in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Schleswig-Holstein, On the Language and Poetry of. By Professor MAX MÜLLER Simon de Montfort, The Last Days of: A Fragment. By the Rev. F. J. A. HORT 115 74 South-Slavonic Churches-The Serbian Contributors to this Volume. ALLINGHAM, WILLIAM. ARNOLD, MATTHEW. BARNES, REV. WILLIAM. BERTRAM, J. G. CHRIST CHURCH, THE DEAN OF. CHRISTIE, W. D. COBBE, FRANCES POWER. COLLINS, CHARLES ALLSTON. CRAIG, ISA. DICEY, EDWARD. HAMERTON, PHILIP GILBERT. HORT, REV. F. J. A. KINGSLEY, HENRY. KNOLLYS, CAPTAIN W. W. LESLIE, T. E. CLIFFE. LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. LUDLOW, JOHN MALCOLM. MACLAREN, ARCHIBALD. MACMILLAN, REV. HUGH. MASSON, PROFESSOR. MAURICE, REV. F. D. MÜLLER, PROFESSOR MAX. MULOCH, MISS. MURRAY, E. M. PHIPSON, DR. T. L. ROGET, J. Z. SMITH, PROFESSOR GOLDWIN. TREVELYAN, G. O. TRENCH, REV. FRANCIS. TULLOCH, THE VERY REV. PRINCIPAL. MACMILLAN'S MAGAZINE. VOLUMES I. TO X., COMPRISING NUMBERS 1-60. HANDSOMELY BOUND IN CLOTH, PRICE 78. 6d. EACH. Reading Cases for Monthly Numbers, One Shilling. Sold by all Booksellers in Town and Country. MACMILLAN'S MAGAZINE. MAY, 1864. LETTERS FROM A COMPETITION WALLAH. LETTER XII. AND LAST.-EDUCATION OF INDIA SINCE 1835 (WITH A HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED MINUTE OF LORD MACAULAY), MOFUSSILPORE, July 20, 1864. DEAR SIMKINS,-You will be glad to hear that I passed my second examination some three weeks ago, and have since been settled here as an assistant to Tom Goddard. He set me to work at first upon the Government School, which was not in a satisfactory state; and I have gained some valuable experience about the operation of our system of public instruction. The natives of India do not seem willing to adopt Christianity as a compensation for the loss of national independence; but there can be no question whether or not they appreciate the blessings of a sound European education. That we have been enabled to offer to our subjects in the East a boon so acceptable, is due mainly to the exertions of a great man, who, for the space of more than three years, laboured to direct the whole course of instruction into the channels which it at present occupies. To describe with my feeble pen the nature of the change which he introduced would be vain and presumptuous indeed, when he has left a monument of that change in his own immortal words. Strange it is, while rummaging among the dusty records of the Public Offices at Calcutta, to light upon a yellow bundle of foolscap, tied up with frayed and faded tape, and honeycombed by the ravages of generations of white ants. To judge from the appearance, it might well be an ancient minute upon the question of Half Batta, or the spread of Russian influence in Affghanistan, indited by some bygone councillor who now lies under the grass of a church-yard at Cheltenham, or dozes over "Allen's Indian Mail" in the subscription reading-room at Torquay. Unfold the packet, and every page teems with the vivid thought, the glowing fancy, the grand yet simple diction which has already become classic wherever the English tongue is spoken or the English literature studied; which ages hence will be familiar whether to the New Zealander, who from that broken arch of London Bridge contemplates the ruins of St. Paul's, or (as is far more probable) to the student in some AngloSaxon college founded on the site of a stockade of the Maori race, already long extinguished by the combined influence of fire-water and progressive civilization. At the commencement of the year 1835, the operations of the Committee of Public Instruction, of which Macaulay was President, were brought to a stand by a decided difference of opinion. Half of the members were in favour of Arabic, Persian, and Sanscrit learning; and the other half in favour of English and the vernacular. The battle was fought out over a sum of ten thousand pounds, set apart by Parliament for the promotion of literature and science. When the matter came before the Council, Macaulay drew up the following minute, which is endorsed thus: "I give my entire concurrence to the "sentiments expressed in this minute. "W. BENTINCK." |