THE FOREGOING WORK HAS THE FOLLOWING

RECOMMENDATION.

This is the universal Recommendation, in substance, of teachers who have introduced it into their schools: "That the simplicity of the rules and the observations accompanying, contrast strongly in its favour, when compared with the old arbitrary forms....That matters relating to the science, which have heretofore been treated as though beyond the reach of human investigation, or beneath the dignity of scientifick research, are in this work represented in their true light; freed from all obscurity..... That its whole tenour is upon the just supposition that absolute rules, or words, are soon forgotten, while time is scarcely sufficient to efface principles from the memory.... That the questions and answers, calculated more fully to illustrate the principles of rules and mathematical operations; to brighten the faculties of pupils, and leave lasting impressions, are of vast importance to teachers: lessening the labour of a heretofore tedious branch of instruction, and giving greater force to oral communications..... That the more than usual attention paid to the elementary rules is of infinite advantage, inasmuch as it renders it difficult for learners to pass on to the more intricate parts and yet remain ignorant of the first rudiments of the science; a fault justly chargeable upon nearly every other Arithmetick in use."