Publisher's Synopsis
JOURNAL OF EDUCATION: -"We can hardly recall any mathematical text-book which in neatness, lucidity, and judgment displayed, alike in choice of subjects and of the methods of working, can compare with this....We have no hesitation in recommending it as the book to be put in the hands of the beginner."
NATURE: -"A thoroughly excellent elementary treatise....Mr. Smith's book is right up to the time, and is admirably adapted for the preparation of pupils for college scholarships; for students at the University it is a fitting introduction to that as yet unapproached work, Salmon's treatise on these curves."
