"Matuexatics or Bustxess asp Coma by 0. H. Cocks and E. P. Glover. Hodder & Stoughton Ld. London, pp, 251. 4/6. ery-pay MATHEMAT yy Frank Hodder & Stoughton.
These are two among a number of excellent volumes forming the "New Teaching series of practical text-books,"" a series described b; Mr. H. G. Wells as "'a very valuable addition to our educational resources." The first named should be of special value to the commercial student, who will begin with the encouraging suggestion that after working through the examples, taken irom the syllabus of the Royal Society of Arts, he may face with confidence any problems likely to arise in the course of business. Quicker methods of working in elementary arithmetic are demonstrated, and there are chapters covering the whole range of business, among them the Metric or decimal system, Profit and Loss, Averages, Invoices, forming a company for trading, For eign Bills, Compound interest. ete., together with a table of an swots at the end of the book-
"Everyday Mathematics," written primarily for the purpose of exhibiting some of the fundamental principles of mathematics, draws its examples from phases of life of interest to all. "To-day" (says the author in his introduction). "one can hardly pick up a newspaper, listen to ® conversation or look at any of man's handiwork without finding something that will be made clearer by a realization of the application of mathe-magical principles. When strikes place on a question of per centages, advertisements _twisb figures to distort facts, blue books and others talk of ce-flicients of increase and the like; in such times a trained mind capable of criticizing every figure published—whether by responsible officials or irresponsible private persons—is a necessity to every citizen."
Both volumes should be valuable to the student. and of considerable service to the teacher and specialist.
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