130. Many of the above works are calculated to be of great use in our schools. The first named originated in this way In his endeavours to give a critical knowledge of the English and Marahti languages to the students of the English department of the Poona College, and to train some of them to be translators, Major Candy had been in the habit of giving them English prose pieces to translate. After they had given in their translations, he marked the errors in them, and then made a translation himself of the piece they had translated. The class then re-assembled, and the original, the students' translations, and Major Candy's translation, were carefully compared. In this way has been translated a great number of pieces from McCulloch's Third Reading Book, and from his Series of Lessons.. 131. The second work was undertaken for the purpose of introducing a correct system of punctuation into Marahti, in consequence of having observed the errors which were so continually made on the subject. 132. The book which formed the basis of the new edition of Æsop's Fables was a copy of the edition lithographed in Bombay in 1847. A few of the fables of that edition have been struck out, and a few more modified. The idiom and grammar of all have been carefully corrected, and the moral of several amended. The original translator had substituted Hindu deities for those of Greece; and as it seemed an absurdity to ascribe to Esop the names of deities he had never heard of, Major Candy restored the original ones. He also enriched the edition by adding thirty-five fables, which had not been previously translated ; and he rendered it still more interesting to Natives by prefixing a life of Esop. The work on Geography is one much required. 133. Having now completed our report, we have only to express a hope that the general state of education will be deemed by your Lordship in Council to be satisfactory, and that the manner in which our duties have been discharged will meet with your approval.` We have the honor to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient Servants, (Signed) E. PERRY, President, |