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enlivening the imagination. The author's method is ingenious, and his queitions are felected with judgment."

English Review, Aug. 1796.

"In a book of common arithmetic we did not expect to find that variety of information which this work contains. The author's reading has been very extenfive, and his researches feem to have been directed with a particular view to this publication. There is fcarcely any fubject, or any kind of knowledge, to which he is not defirous, with a very laudable zeal, of engaging the attention of his pupils; and, inftead of compofing a mere treatise of arithmetic, he has compiled an univerfal common-place book for their inftruction. While he is profeffedly employed in teaching them the common rules and operations of numerical computation, he takes occafion to introduce a variety of topics in aftronomy and geography, biography and chronology, mechanics and philofophy, natural, civil, and ecclefiaftical hiftory, politics and government, ethics and theology; and he ranges with them, generally in profe, but occafionally in verfe, through the whole circle of fciences, facred and profane. We applaud the affiduity and labour difplayed in this work, as well as the motives that induced the author to devote fo much time to the compilation of it. As a book of general inftruction and amufement, altogether unconnected with arithmetical rules, it does honour to the compiler, and deferves to be recommended."

Monthly Rev. New Series, Vol. xxii. p. 209.

"Among the latest and most instructive works on the fubject of Arithmetic, we mention BUTLER'S "Arithmetical Questions."

Domeftic Ency. by Dr. WILLICH.

"A variety of arithmetical questions occur in common converfation, and from common incidents; these should be made a fubject of inquiry; and our pupils, amongst others, fhould try their skill. "BUTLER'S Arithmetical Questions"

Questions" will fupply many entertaining as well as inftructive queftions."

EDGEWORTH'S Practical Educ. 2d edit. Vol. ii. p. 272.

"Mr. BUTLER'S volume of Arithmetical Questions, which combines with the fcience abundance of useful information on all fubjects, cannot be too strongly recommended. No youth can ftudy that book without deriving great acceffions to his ftock of knowledge, and new excitements to the practice of virtue."

Directions to Teachers and Parents for felecting and ufing the best elementary books on every fubject.

MONTHLY PRECEPTOR, Vol. vi. p. 154.

"The great utility of Arithmetical Exercifes, and the drynefs which attends their progrefs, are truths which cannot be difputed. Mr. BUTLER, however, has attempted, in the prefent work, to render the fcience of numbers agreeable even to youthful minds. The informa tion which the author pours forth on every queftion is highly gratifying to the curiofity-and converts the unin terefting detail of pounds, fhillings, and pence, into a moft delightful fource of entertainment. This volume, therefore, cannot fail of proving a very acceptable prefent to the rifing generation. We, indeed, know of no book equally adapted to lead on the pupil with fuccefs in this fpecies of intellectual improvement. Mr. B. feems to have ranfacked every quarter for information, and his pages may be faid to teem with variety. This indirect mode of communicating knowledge is fure of finding accefs to the mind, and has with writers of education been always a fubject of commendation. We with the ingenious and active author of the prefent work every poffible fuccefs. May the pains he has taken in this, as well as his other productions, meet with an ample remuneration."

MONTHLY VISITOR, December 1801.

Mr.

Mr. BUTLER deferves our highest commendation: and we do not fear contradiction from any one competent to judge of the contents of his book, when we fay, that we do not know a volume of its fize in the English language, that contains fo much rational entertainment and valuable information. We fhall only add, that the words in the title page," defigned for the use of Young Ladies," may convey an improper impreffion, to the prejudice in fome degree of its reception; for there is not any part of the book which, to our understandings, is not juft as suitable to youth of the male fex as of the female; and we recommend it, with perfect confidence, to the parents, guardians, and instructors of the rifing generation, as a work of extraordinary merit and utility.

EUROPEAN MAGAZINE, Vol. 1. p. 129.

A LIST OF BOOKS,

PUBLISHED BY THE SAME AUTHOR,

FOR THE USE OF

YOUNG LADIES.

I.

AN engraved INTRODUCTION to ARITHMETIC *;

confifting of examples in the four principal rules, with printed exercifes; defigned to facilitate the progrefs of young beginners, and to diminish the labour of the tutor. Price 4s. 6d. bound.

II.

GEOGRAPHICAL and BIOGRAPHICAL EXERCISES, on a new plan. The fixth edition. Price 4s.

III.

CHRONOLOGICAL and BIOGRAPHICAL EXERCISES, on a new plant; comprifing articles of an hiftorical, biographical,

*

"As arithmetic is, or ought to be, one of the earlie branches of education, fo it is one of the grea eft importance. At this period of life the four first rules must be accurately learnt, must be engraven on the memory by a multitude of examples, of all kinds, beginning from the moft fimple that can be devised. In this view Mr. BUTLER'S book of examples in these rules will be found ufeful to the teacher, as well as of advantage to the scholars."

MONTHLY PRECEPTOR.

+ "The fame attention to amufe by variety, while he inftructs by appropriate selection, diftinguishes Mr. BUTLER in this work,

as

graphical, and miscellaneous nature, for daily ufe. The third edition. Price 7s. 6d. bound. A new edition of

this

as was vifible in his former productions. No remarkable circumftance or perfonage efcapes his vigilance; and fcarcely any term of fcience occurs which he does not either technically explain, or agreeably illuftrate by fome apt quotation from the beft writers. This cuftom of Mr. B.'s is of infinite ufe, as it renders the task of study no lefs entertaining than improving; and courts the young mind to the purpose of the preceptor by hanging the avenues of fcience with wreaths of rofes.

"There is one peculiar excellence in this work which we do not recollect to have feen before adopted; it is that of recording the most remarkable circumstances under every day in the year; and thus rendering its diurnal ufe attractive by conftant variety. Thus, for example, under Oct. 25, we find the death of King Stephen; the death of Chaucer the poet; the history of the battle of Agincourt; Charles Vth's refiguation to his fon Philip; the death of Calmet; the death of King George II. and the death of Hogarth; with the particulars of each person and event; and fo under their refpective dates, from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31.

"Greater variety of information, or better adapted to juvenile minds, we never remember to have feen. Among the biographi cal articles we perceive fome that have never appeared before in any fhape, and many that have only been publifhed in voluminous collections, to which young perfons do not often find accefs.

London Review for August 1799.

"Mr. BUTLER modeftly reftrains the ufe of the volume to young ladies, among whom his engagements feem principally to lie; but we fee no reason why it may not be equally serviceable to young gentlemen.

"We are much pleafed with the author's mode of arrangement, which difplays originality and tafte, and is likely to have the happieft effect in impreffing on tender minds a remembrance of fome of the moft remarkable events in facred and profane hiftory, particularly that part of the latter which relates to our own country.

"Embracing fo many various fubjects, it cannot reafonably be expected that every article will be alike full and fatisfactory; yet we know not where to name a manual more replete with ufeful and entertaining matter."

Young Gentleman and Lady's Magazine for August 1799.

"This is a comprehenfive and judicious melange, fixing the dates, and recording the particulars, of the various events, places,

and

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