will commend themselves to every teacher of in the examples successively presented that it judgment: cannot escape the mind. I. They are well graded. There is no overlapping, no unnecessary repetition, but a continuous advancement a gradual progression from step to step. The teacher is not obliged to look up a work by some other author to fill up an annoying gap. II. Good judgment is shown in apportioning the space. Prominence is given to those branches of Commercial Arithmetic which are likely to be needed in after-life-the making out of Bills and Accounts of Sales, Partial Payments, Profit and Loss, etc. III. They are consistent with each other. The definitions and rules in the different numbers are, as far as practicable, in the same words, and similar modes of reasoning are employed throughout. This greatly facilitates the pupil's comprehension of the subject. The IV. They are philosophically arranged. easier parts take precedence of the more difficult; nothing is anticipated, to the bewilderment of the pupil. V. The rules are brief and analyses well condensed. This is a point of no little moment, the labor of both teacher and learner being greatly increased by a multiplicity of words, and frequently the entire meaning lost in the mass of matter, when a terse form of expression would make it perfectly clear. VI. These books teach the methods actually used by business men. They make it a specialty to present business terms and operations, an insight being thus afforded into commercial life which will be difficult to obtain from any other textbooks. VII. The examples are more varied and more wumerous than in other books of like grade. The space saved by stating rules and principles in a condensed form is thus used to the greatest practical advantage; and, to accustom the pupil to every possible application, the language of the examples is varied as much as possible. VIII. They are inductive. The rules are approached by preliminary examples showing the reason of the process in a way to impress it permanently on the mind. This wouderfully facilitates the memorizing of the rules. General laws are deduced from individual cases. IX. A principle once taught is not allowed to be forgotten. In one form or another it is made the subject of constant review, and is so interwoven X. The examples are so constructed as to require thought on the part of the pupil. Suggestive questions are often introduced after examples involving some new points, leading the thoughts of the pupil in the right direction, and encouraging him to think out the matter for himself, without applying to his teacher for aid. This is an excellent feature, and original with this author. XI. The examples do not involve tedious operations-particularly those given first under the rules. A principle may be illustrated with simple numbers, as well as with combinations of a dozen figures, while, by the former, the pupil is saved from discouragement and a waste of time and labor. XII. Finally, they teach the shortest, simplest, and most easily-remembered modes of performing the different operations of which they treat. The numerous letters which the Publishers are constantly receiving, from parties who are using the Series with satisfaction and success, bear us out in saying they possess in an eminent degree all the above important features, and are besides admirably adapted to the purposes of the classroom. They supply in themselves all that is needed, and do not throw a heavy load of oral instruction on the teacher. 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