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Rector of Glaston, Rutland, late Fellow and Senior Bursar of St. Peter's College, Cambridge.

This manual is now extensively used in Schools and Colleges, both in ''England and in the Colonies. It has also been found of great service for'' students preparing for the Middle Class and Civil and Military Service Examinations, from the care that has been taken to elucidate the principles ''of all the rules. The present edition has been carefully revised. “To'' all those whose minds are sufficiently developed to comprehend the simplest mathematical reasoning, and who have not yet thoroughly mastered the principles of Arithmetic and Algebra, it is calculated to be of great advantage.” —. Of this work, also, one of the highest possible ''authorities, the late Dean Peacock, writes: “Mr. Smith's work is a most'' ''useful publication. The rules are stated with great clearness. The'' examples are well selected, and worked out with just sufficient detail, without being encumbered by too minute explanations; and there prevails throughout it that just proportion of theory and practice which is the crowning excellence of an elementary work.”

Adapted from the author's work on “Arithmetic and Algebra,” by the omission of the algebraic portion, and by the introduction of new exercises. ''The reason of each arithmetical process is fully exhibited. The system of'' Decimal Coinage is explained; and answers to the exercises are appended ''at the end. The Arithmetic is characterised as “admirably adapted for'' instruction, combining just sufficient theory with a large and well-selected collection of excercisesexercises [sic] for practice.” —.