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 By this time his style had considerably mellowed.

Next year the Government contemplating to open some aided English and Vernacular schools in Bengal asked him to outline the method of instruction to be followed and also to work out the details of the scheme. They highly valued the note he submitted and made him Special Inspector of Schools on Rs. 200 a month. He was thus entrusted with the additional task of establishing and inspecting the proposed schools in Nadia, Midnapur, Hugli and Burdwan. Again, agreeably to the instructions of the Court of Directors a normal school for training up teachers was set up in Calcutta in 1856 and he was put in entire charge of it.

One of the many anecdotes in evidence of his simplicity in dress may be inserted here. As inspecting officer he once visited a village school in the interior of Hugli. His renown had spread even to the place and people assembled in numbers to catch occasional glimpses of him. The roads