PRACTICAL ARITHMETIC, WHEBEIN THE RULES ARE ILLUSTRATED, AND THEIR PRINCIPLES EXPLAINED: CONTAINING A GREAT VARIETY OF EXERCISES, PARTICULARLY-ADAPTED TO THE CURRENCY OF THE UNITED STATES. WITH AN APPENDIX: CONTAINING THE CANCELING SYSTEM, ABBREVIATIONS IN MULTIPLI- DESIGNED FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS AND PRIVATE STUDENTS. COMPILED BY JOHN L. TALBOTT. CINCINNATI: PUBLISHED BY E. MORGAN & CO., 111 MAIN STREET. 1853. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the seventeenth day of January, An no Domini eighteen hundred and forty-five, E. MORGAN & Co., of the said District, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the title of which is in the words following, to wit: "The Western Practical Arithmetic, wherein the rules are illustrated, and their principles explained, containing a great variety of exercises, particularly adapted to the currency of the United States: with an Appendix, containing the Canceling System, Abbreviations in Multiplication, Mensuration and the roots; designed for the use of schools and private students; compiled by JOHN L. TALBOTT;" the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in conformity with an act of Congress, entitled " An act to amend the several acts respecting copyrights." WM. MINER, Clerk of District. In presenting this work to the public, the author makes no pretensions to having discovered any new spring by which to put the youthful mind into action, nor any new method of communicating a knowledge of Arithmetic. He has founded his work on the belief that labor and labor only, can insure success in any pursuit; and that labor should always be bestowed upon those objects which produce the greatest useful result. In the selection and arrangement of matter, therefore, those rules that are of the most general use, have been presented first, and their exercises made extensive, that the pupil many early become familiar with their principles, and expert in their application. The explanations accompanying the rules, are designed to facilitate the progress of private students, and to diminish the labor of teachers, especially in large schools, where they are unable to give to each pupil the necessary explanations. The MENSURATION of Carpenters', Masons', Plasterers' and Pavers' work, &c., will be found an acceptable part of Arithmetic, to every man of business, and a practical knowledge of it will contribute much to the security and satisfaction of both workmen and employers, in estimating amounts of work. This has been introduced in consequence of numerous applications to the author to measure various kinds of work, and for instruction in particular rules of Mensuration. The system of Book Keeping, is thought to be sufficient for all the purposes of farmers, mechanics and retailers, in that necessary branch of a business education. How far the author has succeeded in his attempts to compile a useful work, particularly adapted to the circumstances of the Western People, remains for them to judge, and for experience to determine. NOTICE. THE favorable reception of this treatise and the increasing demand for it, have induced the publishers to revise, enlarge, and otherwise improve the work. Such alterations and amendments have been made as the experience of the author and of other intelligent and successful teachers has suggested; it is therefore presumed, that the work will be found more useful, and consequently more acceptable than heretofore. Numerous testimonials to the merits of the work, have been received; but its general adoption without any efforts to force its introduction, and its intrinsic worth, are our main reliance; we have therefore given it a thorough revision, and now submit the result of our labors to a discerning public. February, 1841. F MORGAN & Co. |