74f Irish Cottagers, — Lessons on Arithmetic. 



Parts will be published at 10*. 6(i. each Part to gardeners ; and, after the 

 first three months, 15.?. to gardeners and all others. Instead of publishing 

 every three months, we shall in future publish only every six months. 



If any purchaser thinks our rise of price unreasonable, if he will call on 

 us, we will prove to him something very different ; and if any one should 

 think that, by changing the day of publication from three months to six 

 months, we mean to discontinue the work, let him also call, and we will 

 show him impressions of the eight plates which are to constitute the next 

 two Numbers. 



Doyle, Mr, Martin, author of Hints to Small Farmers : L-ish Cottagers. 

 Dublin. 1830. Small 8vo. 2s. 6d. 



The great and deserved popularity of the Hints to Small Farmers induced 

 us to see with complacency another work by the same author, particularly 

 as, from the title, we had hopes of finding it an Irish adaptation of Mrs. 

 Hamilton's excellent Cottagers of Glenhurnie. We are sorry to say, how- 

 ever, that the author does not appear to us to have fully developed the idea 

 with which he set out. The two first chapters led us to expect that the 

 progress of a young Irish couple would be traced through all the various 

 trials of their married life ; and, after having been introduced to such inte- 

 resting personages as Mick Kinshella and his wife, we were quite disap- 

 pointed to hear afterwards so very little about them. Notwithstanding this 

 blemish, there is much both to amuse and instruct in this little volume ; 

 and we have no doubt of its doing very essential service to those for whose 

 benefit it was written. The characters of the Irish peasantry are sketched 

 with great spirit ; and the scene at the Sessions, and that of the unfor- 

 tunate result of the expedition undertaken to redeem the remains of Peter 

 Dempsey from the " body-snatchers," are not only true to life, but highly 

 amusing. — J. W, L. 



Smith, Thos., Liverpool : Lessons on Arithmetic, in Principle and in Prac- 

 tice, for the Instruction of the Youth of both Sexes, and more espe- 

 cially for that of young Merchants, Tradesmen, Seamen, Mechanics, and 

 Farmers. London, 1830. Small 8vo. 3^. Qd. 



We have peculiar satisfaction in recommending this work to gardeners, 

 which, for its clearness and comprehensiveness, is well calculated to assist 

 those who in a great measure educate themselves, in acquiring one of the 

 most useful kinds of knowledge. The necessity of a competent skill in 

 in arithmetic to persons of all classes is a fact too universally acknow- 

 ledged to need discussion ; and it must also be allowed, that any one who 

 publishes a cheap work, tending to facilitate the acquisition of useful 

 knowledge, confers an important benefit upon his fellow-creatures. To 

 write an elementary work well, an author should not only perfectly under- 

 stand the subject of which he ti-eats himself, but he should also be able to 

 make others understand it ; and experience proves that this latter quality 

 is much the rarer of the two. It is very difficult for a writer who is com- 

 pletely master of a subject to level his ideas to the comprehension of a 

 tyro ; and he is apt to forget that what is become easy to him, is still a 

 mystery to the greater portion of his readers. Mr. Smith has carefully 

 avoided this fault. He begins at the beginning, and, assuming that his 

 readers know nothing of the science in question, he proceeds, step by step, 

 preferring to explain even what was self-evident, rather than to run the 

 risk of leaving any thing obscure. As Mr. Smith's work is intended prin- 

 cipally for " untaught artisans," &c., arrived at the age of adolescence, it is 

 more calculated to exercise the I'eason than the memory, and may indeed 

 be called the rationale of the science it professes to teach : it accordingly 

 asserts nothing without explaining why such a rule has been deemed neces- 



