Davies' National Course of Mathematics. TESTIMONIALS. From L. VAN FOKKELEN, State Superintendent Public Instruction, Maryland. The series of Arithmetics edited by Prof. Davies, and published by your firm, have been used for many years in the schools of several counties, and the city of Baltimore, and have been approved by teachers and commissioners. Under the law of 1865, establishing a uniform system of Free Public Schools, these Arithmetics were unanimously adopted by the State Board of Education, after a care. ful examination, and are now used in all the Public Schools of Maryland. These facts evidence the high opinion entertained by the School Authorities of the value of the series theoretically and practically. From HORACE WEBSTER, President of the College of New York. The undersigned has examined, with care and thought, several volumes of Davies Mathematics, and is of the opinion that, as a whole, it is the most complete and best sourse for Academic and Collegiate instruction with which he is acquainted. From DAVID N. CAMP, State Superintendent of Common Schools, Connecticut. I have examined Davies' Series of Arithmetics with some care. The language is clear and precise; each principle is thoroughly analyzed, and the whole so arranged as to facilitate the work of instruction. Having observed the satisfaction and success with which the different books have been used by eminent teachers, it gives me pleas ure to commend them to others. From J. O. WILSON, Chairman Committee on Text-Books, Washington, D. C. I consider Davies' Arithmetics decidedly superior to any other series, and in this opinion I am sustained, I believe, by the entire Board of Education and Corps of Teachers in this city, where they have been used for several years past. From JoHN L. CAMPBELL, Professor of Mathematics, Wabash College, Indiana. A proper combination of abstract reasoning and practical illustration is the chief excellence in Prof. Davies' Mathematical works. I prefer his Arithmetics, Algebras, Geometry, and Trigonometry to all others now in use, and cordially recommend them to all who desire the advancement of sound learning. From MAJOR J. H. WHITTLESEY, Government Inspector of Military Schools. Be assured I regard the works of Professor Davies, with which I am acquainted, as by far the best text-books in print on the subjects which they treat. I shall certainly encourage their adoption wherever a word from me may be of a any avail. From T. MCC. BALLANTINE, Professor Mathematics, Cumberland College, Kentucky. I have long taught Prof. Davies' Course of Mathematics, and I continue to like their working. From JOHN MCLEAN BELL, B. A., Principal of Lower Canada College. I have used Davies' Arithmetical and Mathematical Series as text-books in the schools under my charge for the last six years. These I have found of great efficacy in exciting, invigorating, and concentrating the intellectual faculties of the young. Each treatise serves as an introduction to the next higher, by the similarity of its reasonings and methods; and the student is carried forward, by easy and gradual steps, over the whole field of mathematical inquiry, and that, too, in a shorter timo than is usually occupied in mastering a single department. I sincerely and heartily recommend them to the attention of my fellow-teachers in Canada. From D. W. STEELE, Prin. Philekoian Academy, Cold Springs, Texas. I have used Davies' Arithmetics till I know them nearly by heart. A better series of school-books never were published. I have recommended them until they are now used in all this region of country. 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