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BOOKS WRITTEN. Hindu Law of Marriage and Stridhana. (Boing the Tagore law Lectures for 1878) The elements of Arithmetic. First Edition 1 S6. I)r. Gooroodas Bancrjee has rendered an important service to Indian students by the publication of his book on Arithmetic. He has not written the book for the sake of book-making, for to a successful legal practitioner the profits of book-craft can scarcely be an inducement for undertaking tho drudgery of writing a school-book. He is a distinguishcd mathematician among our graduates, and his work under notice docs him much credit. Dr. Bancrjec, we feel porsuaded, was induced to prepare his Arithmetic from a conviction of the necessity of such a publication. There are many text books on \rithmetic cxtant, which are all very good in their way, but none that we know of exactly suits the Indian learner. Mr. Bernard Smith's work is the most popular Arithmetic text-book, but with all his endeavours to adapt it to the Wants and capacitics of Indian youths we cannot say ho has entirely succeeded in his attempt. Apart from the 'uestion of adaptation, Dr. Banerjee's book has the special merit of giving such a lucid explanation of the principles on which the rules are based that for that alone the compilation ought to be universally prized. We would challenge a reference to the “Rule of