PREFACE.

THE OBJECT of this little Work is to provide Elementary Schools with a Text-Book of Arithmetic, accompanied by a Series of easy and amusing examples, arranged progressively, in order of difficulty, and sufficiently numerous to give complete practice in the different rules of Arithmetic-beginning from the very simplest steps of the science. The Author has been led to prepare it, mainly from the want he has felt of such a work in his own experience as a Teacher of Arithmetic in his own village and adult schools. To this want he is disposed to ascribe much of that ignorance and helplessness in matters of Arithmetic, which is known so generally to prevail in these schools.

The method of using the Work will be obvious. The Teacher should first thoroughly explain the Rule in any case to the class, and then set the pupils down to work the Exercises.

ADVERTISEMENT.

THIS Shilling Arithmetic is a new edition of Bishop Colenso's Text-Book of Elementary Arithmetic, in which the Exercises have been incorporated with the Text; but the original Edition, in which the Text-Book is published separately from the Examples, is still kept on sale. The work has been carefully revised throughout, and in a few instances alterations have been made with the view to improve the explanatory portion of the book.

December 1866.