MRS. CHARLES 3. PERCE McGuffey's Revised Readers, White's New Arithmetics. Harvey's Revised Grammars. Holbrook's Normal Grammars. Eclectic Geographies. Eclectic Penmanship. Eclectic History United States. Thalheimer's Historical Series. Smith's English Literature. Gregory's Political Economy. Andrews's Manual of the Constitution. PREFACE. IT is now thirteen years since the first issue of the author's Complete Arithmetic, which has been used from that time to the present with increasing satisfaction in thousands of American schools. In all this time there has been little demand for its revision, and the changes suggested from time to time have been comparatively unimportant. It is believed that few textbooks have more satisfactorily met the test of wide and continued use the best possible test of a school book. But the demand for a two-book series, which called for a new first book (the "Elementary"), has afforded an opportunity for a revision of the Complete Arithmetic, and this has been improved, not only with a view of better adapting it to its place as the second book in the new series, but also of bringing it fully up to the present condition of school instruction and of business. In this revision neither author nor publishers have spared expense or labor required to make the New Complete Arithmetic worthy of general use in the most progressive schools of the country. The most important change made in the revision is a large increase in the number of practical problems, and this has been done without any reduction in the aggregate number of purely drill problems. This increase in practical problems is most marked in Mensuration and the applications of Percentage, including stock investments. There is an increase in the number of review problems in all parts of the book, and there is no reduction in the number and variety of the oral problems. A few of the more difficult problems, oral and written, have been omitted. It has been the aim to eliminate all obsolete terms |