Noti'&es respecting New BaoU. 417 



A^'ith the genius of the people whom such dependency may embrace. 

 To Dr. Knox belongs the credit of having advocated with force and 

 eloquence this application of the science ; and to its ethnological 

 character M. Thierry's History of the Norman Conquest owes not a 

 little of its truthfulness and fascination. ' The Ethnology of the 

 British Colonies ' is a pleasing index of the component elements of 

 our ' possessions/ and should be in the hands of every British states- 

 man. The philological affinities of races, as far as they are esta- 

 blished, are clearly indicated. In these, indeed, lies the author's 

 strength ; and we cannot but think that the usefulness of the work 

 would have been enhanced by a more extended notice of the ethical 

 character, habits, and institutions of the several races. Not that 

 these are altogether overlooked, but that in a practical treatise they 

 should occupy the more prominent place. While the * Migrations 

 of Man ' will probably prove more interesting to the general reader, 

 both works will be indispensable to the student, who will lind therein 

 a clear statement of difficulties, and many additions to the accumu- 

 latingstore of ethnological science. ^i u u j^i;l f-^t.-i-au .(jui 



De Morgan's Elements of Arithmetic and of Algebra translated into 

 the Marathi language by Colonel George R. Jervis, Chief Engi- 

 neer, Bombay Presidency, assisted by Vishnoo Soonder Chutry, 



: Gungadhur Shastri Phudkay, and Govind Gungadhur Phudkay. 

 Bombay. American Mission Press, 1850 and 1851. ^ ^^vi ^ii^vviii 



If there be two questions of interest in their connexion with each 

 other, upon which the balance of indifference among men of science 

 in this country is most impartially held, they are the questions how 

 arithmetic and algebra w-ere imported into Europe from India, and 

 how they are to be carried back again, with the accessions which 

 they have received. From this kind of indifference it arises that wx 

 know nothing of the efforts which a few earnest men, with the help 

 of the local governments, are making for the improvement of more 

 than a hundred million of our fellow subjects. 



For some time it has been matter of controversy in India as to 

 whether the higher education should be given to the natives in 

 English or in their own languages. The plan of teaching English 

 to selected natives, and thus bringing them into contact with litera- 

 ture and science by aid of all the facilities for instruction which our 

 language affords, tempted many friends of education, and obtained 

 for some time the sanction of the government. But experience 

 showed that the creation, as it were, of an English mind in the 

 Hindu was not the way to make him an effective interpreter to 

 his fellow-countrymen; and experience did no more than confirm 

 the previous belief of almost all the names of celebrity connected 

 with India. Persons who had formed their opinions upon associa-, 

 tions and other modes of arrival as different as, for instance, those 

 of Mountstuart Elphinstone and James Mill, or Sir John Malcolm 

 and Professor Wilson, agreed in thinking that the vernacular lan- 

 guages were the proper medium of the higher instruction for the 



