DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE f BENGALL BOOKS. PART 1. EDUCATIONAL A RIT H M ET I C S. The Rules of Common Arithmetic, set to doggrel rhyme, by a Khaystha, one SUBHANKAR, the Cocker of Bengal, have been chaunted for 15o years in some 4O,OOO Vernacular Schools-thus the Hindus took the lead in a practice which has been since introduced into our English infant schools. See the London Asiatic Journal for 1817 for an excellent account of the Hindu mode of teaching Arithmetic. In 1817 appeared at the Serampore Press, in three parts, Smyth's JAMIN DARI PAPERS, pp. I 5o, a very useful work for Village Schools, which gave the whole system of keeping Zemindar's accounts. It deserves a reprint, as a knowledge of Zemindary accounts affects the interests of all in a country where the land is so sublet, and such minute calculations have to be kept of the trees, &c., on it. In 1817 Mr. May,a most successful teacher of Vernacular Schools,published a collection of ARITHMETICALTABLES, selected from those employed in the Native Schools. "It is remarkable that many coincidences may be traced between them, and the most improved kind of Arithmetical Tables adopted in the schools in Britain on the new model.” The Natives of all ranks soon bought up this edition. Since that period, through the almost universal neglect of an improved Vernaculor education, little has been done in this department. In 184o the Tatwabodhini Sabha published Anakasa Sikikasa, 2 as, Arithmetical Tables on annas and sikis; the same 'ar was published for the Hindu College Patshala an Arithmetic, pp. 55.
