10 DECEMBER 1836, Page 18

There are now so many books on arithmetic, that it

must be almost as difficult to write a bad one as to say any thing new about one. The points of the Elements of Arithmetic, by the Reverend RICHARD MOSLEY, are two,—the execution is very precise and scholastic ; and the author proceeds to fractions immediately after the four fundamental rules are mastered, judiciously holding that this method saves much repetition, and facilitates real progress ; addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and fractions, being in truth the substance of arithmetic, and the other rules only modes of applying them.