Abstract
THIS is a carefully prepared school-book, forming, as to scope, a sort of arithmetic mean between Hamblin Smith's and Brook Smith's or Muir's. It contains the usual rivulets of text ending in seas of examples. In the purely arithmetical part of the book logical accuracy is attempted with considerable success. Want of grasp is much more evident in the part which deals with the applications. There the division into subjects is strangely illogical, and slight inaccuracies of thought and language occur. Is it really the case, for example, that rate of interest (p. 181) is totally independent of time?
Arithmetic for Schools.
By the Rev. J. B. Lock (London: Macmillan and Co., 1886.)
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 34, 51–52 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/034051d0
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