Published by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh.

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LESSONS IN ARITHMETIC FOR JUNIOR CLASSES.

JAMES TROTTER.

By

71 pages, 6d. stiff wrapper; or 8d. cloth. Answers, 6d. Carefully revised and enlarged by the introduction of Simple Examples of the various rules, worked out at length and fully explained. The Practical Exercises are numerous, and Exercises on the Decimal Coinage have been added.

LESSONS IN ARITHMETIC FOR ADVANCED CLASSES; being a Continuation of the above. By ALEXANDER TROTTER. New Edition, with Tables and Exercises on the Metric System. 78 pages, 6d. in stiff wrapper; or 8d. cloth. Answers, 6d.

Each subject is also accompanied by an example fully worked out and minutely explained. The Exercises are numerous and practical.

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INGRAM'S PRINCIPLES OF ARITHMETIC, and their Applicatfan to Business explained in a Popular Manner, and clearly Illustrated by Simple Bles and Numerous Examples. Remodelled and greatly Enlarged, with Tables and Exercises on the Metric System. By ALEXANDER TROTTER, Teacher of Mathematics, etc., Edinburgh. 1s. KEY, 2s. Each rute is followed by an example wrought out at length, and is illustrated by a great variety of practical questions applicable to business.

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MELROSE'S CONCISE SYSTEM of PRACTICAL ARITHMETIC; containing the Fundamental Rules and their Application to Mercantile Calculations; Vulgar and Decimal Fractions; Exchanges; Involution and Evolution; Progressions; Annuities, Certain and Contingent, etc. Rearranged, Improved, and Enlarged, with Tables and Exercises on the Metric System. By ALEXANDER TROTTER, Teacher of Mathematics, etc., in Edinburgh. 1s. 6d. KEY, 2s. 6d.

Each rule is followed by an example workel out at length and minutely explained, and by numerous practical Exercises.

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PRACTICAL ARITHMETIC FOR JUNIOR CLASSES.

By

HENRY G. C. SMITH, Teacher of Arithmetic and Mathematics in George Heriot's Hospital. 64 pages, 6d. stiff wrapper. Answers, 6d. PRACTICAL ARITHMETIC FOR SENIOR CLASSES; being a Continuation of the above; with Tables and Exercises on the Metric System. By HENRY G. C. SMITH. 2s. Answers, 6d. Key, 2s. 6d.

**The Exercises in both works, which are copious and original, have been constructed so as to combine interest with utility. They are accompanied by illustrative processes.

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HISTORY of ENGLISH LITERATURE, with an OUTLINE of

the ORIGIN and GROWTH of the ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Illustrated by EXTRACTS. For Schools and Private Students. By Professor SPALDING. 11th Edition. Continued to 1870. 446 pages. 3s. 6d.

** A Specimen Copy of any one or more of the above will be sent to Principals of Schools, post-free, by Oliver and Boyd, on receiving half the retail price in stamps.

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FIRST LATIN COURSE;

COMPRISING

GRAMMAR AND EXERCISES,

WITH VOCABULARIES.

BY

GEORGE OGILVIE, LL.D.,

HEAD MASTER OF GEORGE WATSON'S COLLEGE-SCHOOLS, EDINBURGH.

EDINBURGH:

OLIVER AND BOYD, TWEEDDALE COURT.

LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO.

1873.

Price One Shilling and Sixpence.

3050. f. ll.

PREFACE.

WHATEVER force there may be in the complaint that in many schools an undue proportion of time has been assigned to Classics, the teaching of the Latin language must continue to hold an important place in every well-ordered educational programme. At the same time, considering the claims of other branches of study, it is of the utmost consequence that instruction in the elements of Latin should be cumbered as little as possible by what may be looked on as superfluous or extraneous.

In the present work an attempt has been made to supply, in a compendious form and at a very moderate price, what may be at once a suitable first year's course for classical pupils, and an introduction to Latin sufficient for pupils who intend to join the "modern side" in our secondary schools.

It has been considered advisable to keep the Exercises distinct from the Grammar, except that copious lists of words to be declined are given from the first, with a view to familiarize the learner with the in