Excerpt from The American Arithmetic: In Which the Principles of Numbers Are Explained and Illustrated by a Great Variety of Practical Questions The arrangement of the subjects and articles is such, that the pupil will require no knowledge of any subsequent article, in order to understand each succeeding one.

The arrangement of questions under each head, combining those questions which are to be analyzed and performed men tally and orally, by the. Pupil, with those that will require him to use the slate and pencil in performing them, is another important feature of the work; and teachers will find their young pupils interested in studying an arithmetic in which the questions are arranged in a similar manner.

This new edition of the American Arithmetic comprises, in one volume, all the principles of numbers, fully explained and illustrated, and is adapted to the use of all classes of pupils in our common and high schools, in every stage of advance ment.

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