FOR THE USE OF CHILDREN BETWEEN THE BY WILLIAM B. FOWLE, SECOND EDITION. Boston: PUBLISHED BY THOMAS WELLS, Union Street and Hanover Street. 1827. Howe & Norton, Printers. EducT, +18, 26.3. dug ↑ 118. 27. 403 Edi District of Massachusetts, To wit: BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the twenty-sixth day of April, A. D. 1826, in the fiftieth year of the Independence of the United States of America, William B. Fowle," of the said district, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as Author, in the words following, to wit: "The Child's Arithmetick, or the Elements of Calculation, in the spirit of Pestalozzi's Method, for the use of children between the ages of three and seven years. William B. Fowle, Instructer of the Monitorial School, Boston." By In Conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned;" and also to an act, entitled, "An act supplementary to an act, entitled, An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical, and other prints." JNO. W. DAVIS, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts. PREFACE. SOMETHING like this little work, had, for more than a year, been used in manuscript in the Monitorial School, when No. 3 of a useful English publication, called " Hints to Parents," was put into the author's hands. Believing that these "Hints," however valuable, would meet with little attention unless presented to the publick in a more practical form, the author was induced, at the request of a friend, to incorporate his own manuscript with what was valuable in the printed "Hints," and this Manual is the consequence. The author hopes that it is not necessary for him to defend the utility or propriety of teaching the elements of Arithmetick to very young children. It is generally conceded that no other exercise affords so much pleasure to them, or has so powerful a tendency to develope their intellectual powers. Children will learn something, whether taught or not, and every attempt to prepare suitable exercises for them must be gladly welcomed by every discerning parent and instructer. The author believes that children will never dislike study if they understand what they are required to learn, and have a proper variety of |