23 NOVEMBER 1907, Page 18

BABOO ENGLISH.

[To THE MATTO)/ OP THE " SPECTATOR:9 SIB,-It may interest some of your readers to know that among ninety-six selected candidates for the Home, Indian, and Colonial Civil Services, out of 500 marks, the maximum for English composition, Mr. Krishnamma got 400, and was second ; Mr. A. C. De secured 314, and was thirty-third ; Mr. Dalal, with 305 marks, was thirty-ninth; and even Mr. Nana- vati, with 190 marks, was ahead of fourteen English selected candidates. Mr. Krishnamma was, I believe, educated almost entirely in England, but Mr. De provides one more example of the excellent educational methods of Bengal.—I am,