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IV.

EXERCISES ON THE GLOBES*; interfperfed with hiftorical, biographical, chronological, mythological, and mifcellaneous

and perfons, occurring in hiftory, from the creation to the present time. The author, by appropriating circumstances to every day in the year, has rendered it an agreeable as well as ufeful diary of interesting and important information; and a copious index, which refers to every name in the work, adds much to its utility."

European Mag. for August 1799, p. 112.

"Mr. BUTLER has here felected fome of the most interesting events of modern hiftory; and arranged them according to the days of the year on which they happened. This is an excellent mode of impreffing the memory, and mult prove highly beneficial to the young mind.

"We recommend this ingenious work to mafters of schools and heads of families; because by its affiftance they can, with ease, store the minds of young people with useful information. Indeed, to perfons of every defcription, it will prove an acceptable present, fince it furnishes materials for rational converfation.

Monthly Vifitor for November 1799.

"Mr. BUTLER has, on former occafions, proved that he has been no idle attendant on the rifing generation. He has, at least, the merit of having trewed over with flowers the steep and thorny paths of inftruction.

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"This volume contains a greater number of problems than we remember to have feen before collected and the examples, by which each problem is illuftrated, are many and various.

"In the part of the work that treats of the Celestial Globe, the remarks of poets, mythologifts, and hiftorians, concerning the various conftellations, are introduced, and, fometimes, a brief sketch of the natural history of the feveral animals which they reprefent; together with fome very pleafing anecdotes.-If our limits would allow us, we fhould have pleasure in tranfcribing some extracts from this part of the volume.

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mifcellaneous information, on a new plan. The fourth edition, price 6s. bound.

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"It appears rather extraordinary to us, that a plan of inftruction fo well calculated to gratify that curiofity which the fcience itself muft raise in youthful minds, has not before occurred to writers on this fubject; as, without fome fuch explanations, the various figures on the Celestial Globe must be wholly uninterefting, because perfectly unintelligible. The introduction of the Greek Alphabet, with the names and powers of the letters, though but a trivial circumstance in itfelf, is a happy thought,-as it enables the pupil readily to name the feveral stars by the characters affigned to them by aftronomers.

"The idea, alfo, of introducing into fuch of the problems as include days of the month, fuch days as have been marked by fome memorable event, is not only novel in itself, but shews, that, throughout his work, the Author has kept in view the purpose of imparting general information, and of familiarifing his pupils to the interesting paths of biography and hiftory-paths in which, it may be expected, they will gain, at once, habits of virtue, and vigour of intellect."

Lady's Monthly Museum, Vol. i. p. 481, &c.

"Mr. BUTLER has happily fucceeded in his endeavours to render plain the first elements of geography and aftronomy. His definitions are clear, and his problems are introductory to each other; so that the folution of them may be effected with a greater degree of facility.

"The miscellaneous notes fcattered throughout the volume, are extremely valuable; they contain much information, and will give youth a pleafing infight into the propriety of the manner of the several conftellations into which the ftars are divided. Without fuch a knowledge the Heavens feem confused; but when we have attended to the real origin of the divifions, we shall find that they allude to fome of the most important incidents in the page of ancient history. In this point of view the firmament resembles a mighty RECORD, where the eye of science difcerns traces of wifdom which, otherwise, would have for ever lain concealed in the folds of obfcurity.”

Monthly Vifitor, Vol. xi. p. 316.

"We have no fcruple in saying, that this is one of the best books of the kind that have come before us. It agreeably blends a great deal of amusement with much important inftruction, is very ingeniously arranged, and, what is not its leaft merit, is very neatly printed."

British Critic for July 1805. "The

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A numerous Collection of ARITHMETICAL TA

"The didactic part of this work is well arranged and perfpicuously expreffed; and no fmall pains have evidently been bestowed in garnishing it with anecdote, micellaneous information, and poetical extracts. Upon the whole, Mr. BUTLER deferves well of the public for having prepared the cup of ufeful elementary knowledge, and at the same time tipped its rim with honey."

Critical Review for July 1805.

This work has undoubtedly merit, and contains much useful information."

Monthly Review for Sept. 1805.

"This ingenious work is well worthy the attention of those for whom it is defigned-Young Ladies.”

Monthly Mirror for Sept. 1805.

"In a judicious manner this Author has here, as in his former productions, contrived to blend amusement with inftruction. The Problems are more numerous than in any book of the kind that we have before seen, and the definitions are precise and easy of comprehenfion. But, in a manner that we think peculiar to himself, Mr. BUTLER has contrived to intersperse so much miscellaneous information among the scientific parts of his work, as must neceffarily cultivate the mind and enlarge the ideas of the fair pupil on general fubjects, while fhe feems to be studying geography only. On the whole, we think these "Exercises" a very defirable acceffion to the ftock of fchool literature."

London Review, European Magazine for August 1801.

"Of Mr. BUTLER'S "Exercises" it may be affirmed, that it would be difficult to fix upon any book of equal fize, that contains fo much interesting matter, collected from various fources, on almost every fubject; and always illuftrative of fome hiftorical fact, or of fome important invention, or devoted to the celebration of heroic deeds in ancient and modern times.

AIKIN's Ann. Review, 1808, Vol. vii.

BLES,

-BLES*, defigned for the ufe of Young Ladies. Price Sd.

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"Mr. BUTLER has, in this little pamphlet, brought together, with his accustomed accuracy, various tables with which it is neceffary that the minds of the youth, of both fexes, fhould be made thoroughly acquainted. The profoundeft fciences have their refpective elements -without a knowledge of which they appear to be a jumble of diforder and confufion. In the art of teaching, therefore, the competent tutor will pay due attention to the first principles of what he teaches -for the foundation being once well laid, the fuperftructure can be railed with pleasure and facility."

Monthly Vifitor for March 1801.

"Thefe Tables comprise many useful and indispensable articles explanatory of weights, measures, and value of coins, over and above thofe ufually put into the hands of pupils in the art of arithmetic."

London Review, European Mag. for January 1804.

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WRITING, ACCOUNTS, and GEOGRAPHY,

taught in LADIES' SCHOOLS, by Meffrs. BUTLER, BOURN, and BUTLER, Junior.

ARITHMETICAL

ARITHMETICAL QUESTIONS.

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ARITHMETIC

'S a fcience, which explains the properties of numbers, and fhows the method or art of computing by them. It has five principal rules, NUMERATION, ADDITION, SUBTRACTION, MULTIPLICATION, and DIVISION; and thefe are the foundation of all arithmetical operations.

We have very little information refpecting the origin and invention of arithmetic: hiftory neither fixes the author of it, nor the time of its difcovery. Some imagine, that it must have taken its rife from the introduction of commerce, and afcribe its invention to the Tyrians. That it had a much earlier introduction into the world, however, even before the deluge, we may gather from the following expreffion in the prophecy of Enoch, as mentioned by Jude" Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his faints." This fhows that, even in those days, men had ideas of very high numbers, and computed them likewife in the fame manner that we do; namely, by tens. The directions alfo given to Noah, concerning the dimenfions of the ark, leave us no room to doubt that he had a knowledge of numbers, and likewife of measures. When Rebecca was fent away to Ifaac, Abraham's fon, her relations wished that the might be the mother of thousands of millions; and if they had been totally unacquainted with the rule of multiplication, it is impoffible to conceive that they could have formed

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