[Book Reviews]

Abstract

MR. CHARLES SMITH is such a well-known writer of mathematical works that we expected to find the present volume very commendable. In this we are not disappointed. The explanations of the fundamental principles and processes are treated with a clearness, conciseness and completeness that make the book a delight to read, and although, as he says, “my aim has not been to in troduce novelties,” yet he has succeeded, in so far as we are able to predict, in placing before students a book not only of practical utility, but also of great educational value. Stocks and shares, and such like transactions, have all been treated more in accordance with the methods of the present day than is usual in such treatises. There has also been inserted a chapter on foreign exchanges for the benefit of those preparing for examinations in commercial arithmetic. The examples are of a varied and useful nature, and are numerous and well chosen: each new principle or process is accompanied with one or two sets of them, while interpolated through out are many to be worked out by those who wish to revise their back work as they proceed in the subject. Miscellaneous exercises to the number of 500, together with sets of examination papers, form also a useful addendum.

Arithmetic for Schools.

By Charles Smith. “Pitt Press Mathematical Series.” (Cambridge: University Press, 1891.)