2013.
a.
leacher's services. In the colloquial thing
very
On the
Dame
day,
and for three hours
yesterday, I subjected Messrs Smith and Fonnocky
and
searching examination of
You
their attainments:
are
making some progress, but not
much.
Mr. Ronald can converse on
ordinary
to a careful
subjects, and some others
familiar
to him
pretty freely
I
suggested
to him whether
altind
I be might not give up the study of the
with a teacher, but he
purpose
to master
written language warmly expressed,
his
the subject. M. Holmes also said that he meant to work vigorously at its
Unless there be however, some strong
motive from within, or a real liking for the
study
for its own account and a peculiar aptitude
for it, I see that much is not to be expected from
students in the position of the Cadets. Perhaps all the requisites which I have mentioned existed in the case of Mr. Turner.
You are aware that Mr.
Deane was unable in consequence of illness
I am happy to be able to report
favorably
as on
former occasions of those two Gentlemen, Mr. Smith continues to maintain a position ahead of the other, but at no great distance. I examined them in speaking and translating, trying them in reading also with passages which they had not read with their teachers.
I tested them also in
translating from English
into Chinese.
also in
comparing
that of many
their progress
progress with
students of the language
whom I have known,
I can say that