A Hand-Book of Myth MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT GREECE AND RO from Antique Sculpture SCHOOL OF EDUCATIO R BY: ustrated o, cloth. Crime and and states will take Andover, >Two-Book Series of Arithmet "thor of a Mathematical Co Oral and W Fully and handsomely illustrated. For Primary Schools. 16mo, cloth. 2. A COMPLETE GRADED ARITHMETIC, Oral and ten, upon the Inductive Method of Instruction. For S and Academies. 400 pp. 12mo, cloth. This entirely new series of Arithmetics by DR. THOMSON ha prepared to meet the demand for a complete course in two books following embrace some of the characteristic features of the books: First Lessons.-This volume is intended for Primary Classe divided into Six Sections, and each Section into Twenty Lessons. Sections cover the ground generally required in large cities for pro from grade to grade. The book is handsomely illustrated. Oral and slate exercises ar bined throughout. Addition and Subtraction are taught in conn and also Multiplication and Division. This is believed to be in acco with the best methods of teaching these subjects. Complete Graded.-This book unites in one volume Or Written Arithmetic upon the inductive method of instruction. Its twofold: to develop the intellect of the pupil, and to prepare him actual business of life. In securing these objects, it takes the mos road to a practical knowledge of Arithmetter examples to in The pupil is led by a few simple appropriations and rules o himself the general principles upon which the instead of taking them upon the authority of the author without ex tion. He is thus taught to put the steps of particular solutions concise statement, or general formula. This method of developin ciples is an important feature It has been a cardinal point to make the explanations simple, th in the reasoning short and logical, and the definitions and rules brie and comprehensive. more adv e teach Arithmetical puzzles and paradoxes, and problems relating to s having a demoralizing tendency, as gambling, etc., are excluded. is obsolete in the former Tables of Weights and Measures is eliminat the part retained is corrected in accordance with present law and us Examples for Practice, Problems for Review, and Test Questi abundant in number and variety, and all are different from those author's Practical Arithmetic. The arrangement of subjects is systematic; no principle is antic or used in the explanation of another, until it has itself been exp Subjects intimately connected are grouped together in the order o dependence. Teachers and School Officers, who are dissatisfied with the metics they have in use, are invited to confer with the publis |