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TO THE STEREOTYPED EDITION.

THE author's acknowledgments are due to a generous public for the liberal and very extensive patronage extended to his Arithmetic. since the first edition was published in 1861. He is proud to know that the unbounded popularity and rapidly increasing sale of the

wc make it necessary to print very extenvely; and therefore takes pleasure in announcing that he has turned the work over to the well-known and popular publishinghouse of J. W. Burke & Co., of Macon, Georgia, who will hereafter print it and apply the trade. The public are assured that no pains will be spared to make it an acceptable textbook for the practical schools and all practical students.

GAINESVILLE, GA

PREFACE.

THERE has long been a want in our schools and country of a practical work on Arithmetic, presenting this important science in a plain, simple style, and at the same time excluding all useless and worthless matter from its pages, incidental to most of our text-books.

I have ventured, therefore, to put forth this work on the science of numbers, believing and hoping that it will supply this want, at least in part.

The order of arrangement is perfectly natural, being such as to lead the student on, step by step, through the whole science. The examples are strictly practical, and the mode of operation, which is original, so generalized as to make the study easy and pleasant to the student and inspire a love for this useful science. And while I have excluded many "old rules and distinctions" which modern improvements have superseded, there is, nevertheless, every rule that can be of any use to the student in learning a knowledge of Arithmetic.

I have endeavored to give my own rules throughout the work; but, says a distinguished author, "to be original in a work on Arithmetic is a well-known impossibility."

Cancellation is carefully explained; and the student is taught to apply it as a mechanical art wherever it is practicable.

In the preparation of this work, it has been my privilege to consult many distinguished authors, among whom I would mention Looney, Greenleaf, and Thompson as most prominent; and as good High School Arithmetics I think their works are unexcelled.

I ask a calm and unprejudiced examination of my work, and hope no one will rashly prejudge; for sensible persons will examine well before they judge, and prudent persons will understand before they will either approve or

condemn.

To the teachers and youth of our country I commend my work, hoping that among them it will find many warm friends, and in it they I will find that tuition which will be useful to them through life.

THE AUTHOR.