The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1849-01-20
The IOUth's Friend & Teachers COMFORT
COLUMBIAN ARITHMETIC.

! II VIE Attention of Teachers, School Directors
| L Parents and merchants Is called to series
" AFlhmrucs, prepared with great care bl WI
Almon lIcknoG a Teacher Oiupwards OF twenty
years experience. They are called the ColumOl-
an Calculator, The youths Columbian Calculator,
A complete Key to the aboYe works TO be had
| stpcrale ur together. Tcknor's Arithmetic Ia
b,es
The first named isalready introduced into some
OF The best Academies, and a large number ol
schools, where lis use has given universal salts
locuou both to Teachers and pupils. 1t has the
clam also OF being purely american IN It's char
! 0cter based upon our own beautiful decimal sys'
| TEN OF currency-and Is considered by Teachers
| DIS the beginning Of a new era IN this department
| ol science, by rejecting the old English system
! luom which nearly all our present ArlthmetIcs
are cnplcd) Of contniug the pupil for years IN
the process ot reducing pounds to larthngs, and
! llrlhlngs 10 pounds. This Book is strongly re-
commended by the Hon, Thomas II. Burrow es,
the late able Superintendent OF, and Father OF our
Common school System, as one OF the best Arlth-
| metlc, In the market. II is also recommended bN
| Mr., Onstcad Professor OF Nlathmatics in Lafay-
ette College; Mr.. Stoeyer, Principal Of the Pie.
paratory Department Of Gettysburg College ,ogeth
er with several hundred Professors and Teachers
in yarons sections OF the country OJ~lt is also
the cheapest Arithmetic in the market
"Ihe Youths Columbian Calculator" by the
same Author, has Just been issued 1t contains
! Jlpages, with about 900 examples for solution
on the slate; 1t embraces the fundamental rules,
| compound Rules, Simple and Compound Rcduc-
tIon, Single rule OF Three, or Proportion, sc.
Teachers VINO have examined this work since
It's publication, are Of the opinion that it Is just
what is very much wanted at this time in our
District Schools as a Primary Arithmetic tor those
commencing the study Of oinumberS, for the reasons
| that those Primary Books now in use are either
too juvenile, or too in advance Of the pupil /;
IN tact, that there has been no suitable Primary
treatise on Arithmetic before the public II is al
50 believed that this volume will contain a sulli-
clent amount Of practical arithmetic, as will com
monty occur in the transaction OF ordinary bust
ness-more particularly in the Female Depart.
mcnt OF our District Schools, many Of whom sell
dom learn the use oinumbers as far as Reduction
or Proportion, and as the work is intended, in
part for this class Of pupils, great care and labor
has been bestowed witha view to render every
part perfectly plain and easy of comprehension
by the pupil. The calculations are IN "our cur.
rency," with the use of few fractions, sufficient
for general use, knowledge OF fractions can be
acquired from the larger volume.
The key embraces several hundred examples
in Arithmetic and Mensuration, aud other valua,
bic matter for the use of the Teacher The eA.
amples are given in full with notes, explanations
illustrations, demonstrations, &c.
"Iicknor's Arirhmetcal Tables" is designed
for the use ofyounger classes in the Schools of the
United States. This book is now published for
the first time, and is considered by competent
Judges, the best Table Book in the market at
present.
These volumes contain about three thousand
SIX hundred original questions for solution, a
greater amount of Arithmetical Science than has
ever been published in the same space, in this or
any other country, and are destined TO become the
books Of the Union, being purely American
IN their character, and adapted equally to the
wants of the student, the man Of business. the
Mechanic, and the Artisan nJ-Thcy ought 10 he
n'roducedimmediately intoeyerycommom school
in the country.
ic$'These books are for sale, wholesale oretail.
at the store of lIeney Il MendenhalI. hy
>. WENDENHALL, Agent, for Ccl. County,
Who're Teachers aud school director, are res.
per' lnIIy r"7nesed to call and examine the books
or themselves
June II, AS-lv (Scrt %. 'l7N