The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1849-03-10
The Kouth'sEriend & Teachers Comfort
COLUMBIAN ARITHMETIC.

VNHE Attention OF TeschersJ school Directors
i Parents and merchants Il calico " series
VI Arlhmetics, prepared With great care by hT'
Amon Ticknor, Teacher ol upnaids Of twenty
years experience They are called the Colum0l-
an Calculator, The youths Columbian Calculator.
A complete Key to the abo7e works TO be bad
seperste or together. TlcknOr's Arithmetic la
bles.
The first named is already introduced into some
Of the best Academies, and lalge number VI
Schools, where It's use has given universal satls-
faction, both TO Teachers and pupils. II has the
claim also Of being puleiy An0can inils char
acter, based upon our own beautiful decimal sys'
ten OF currency and is considered by Teachers
as the beginning OF a new era IN tins department
OF science, by rejecting the old English ystem
from which nearly all our present Arllhmetics
are cOpiedO oil confnIng the YupIl Tor leaIs IN
! the process OF reducing pounds 10 iaIthngs, and
iarthngs to pounds. This Book is strongly re-
commended by the Hon. Thomas Ii. Euiroves,
the late able Superintendent oI,and Father OF our
Common school System, as one OF the beet Arith-
metics in the market 1t is also RECOMMENDED by
Mr.. Omstead, Professor OF Alalhmatics in Lafsy-
etle College; Mi Stoever, Principal Of the Pie
paraiofy Department OF Gettsl burg College ,Ogeth.
er with several hundred PiCirssofs ana leat hers
IN VarIons sections OF the country. o. II is also
"The Youths Columbian Calculator" BY the
same Author, has just been issued. Ii contains
"a pages, with about 800 examples for solution
on Inc slate; II embraces the fundamental rules,
compound Rules, Simple and Compound Reduc-
uon, Single rule Of ! hIee, OF Proportions &c
Teachers VINO have examined this work since
us publication, sIe Of the opinion that ii is Just
what is very much wanted at This time in our
District Schools as Primary Arithmetic for those
comneLcIng the study Of nunbeis, for the tasons
that those Primary Books row in use are either
TOO JuVenile, or too lar IN advance Of the pupil
IN fact, that there hes been no suitable piinary
treatise on Arithmetic before the public II is al
so believed that this volume will contain sulh-
cient amount Of practical arithmetic, at will com
monty occur in the transaction Of ordinary busi-
ness-more particularly in the Female Depar,-
menl 0i our District Schools, many Of whom sci.
dom learn the use Of Numbers as far as Reductit n
or Proportion, aud as the work is intended, in
part for this class Of pupils great care and labor
has been bestowed wilha view TO render eyery
part perfectly plain and easy cf ctnp,ehensiop
by the upil. The calculations are IN "tur cur.
rency," with the use Of ftw fractions, sufficient
Tor general use, as knowledge Of fractions can be
acquired from the larger volume
The key embraces several hundled tsfr.rleS
/ in Arithmetic and Mer.uIpti,r, trd otler aslus.
/
amples are given in full with notes, txplaraiius,
| illustrations, trncnsptt,ls &c.
"Jicknor's Aritfnetical Tsbles," is designed
for The use fyoung,r classes il the Schools Ci Tie
United States. This book is now rutl,led fer
the first time, ard is conslGu,d ~ ccnretett
judges, the best Table Book in the arket At
| present
These volumes contain about three thousand
sX hundred original questions hr solution, a
greater amount Of Anil netcal StiiGt tlsr H.,
ever been published in tie sairs srace in ilistr
any other country. and are desiintt 10 l1c,1ce,Ip
textbooks Of the Union beirP Iu,.h aneli,an
III their character and adapted .Quall, ,n.,le
wants Of ,be student he men cf business, ne
Mechanic, and the Artisan. o. Tie, ,rglitcl.
introduced Immediately into ever! C,u n,nschool
in the country
grj-These books are for sale, wholesale tltetsil,
OF the store Of Hcfey & Mendnlall. !,
5. MENDTNHAlL, Agent for Col. Coul ~.
Where Teachers and school mir, ctors are res.
pectiully requested to call and examine Il e pocls
or themselves
June II, '4S-ly. (Sept 90, h7.l