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Elements of Arithmetic, translated from the French of M. Bezout, and adapted to the Use of American Schools. By Nathaniel Haynes, A. B. Tutor in Mathematics, in the Gardiner Lyceum. Hallowell.

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The very great utility of a work on a plan of this is so obvious, that nothing needs be said to make it more plain. It furnishes a key to all the important decisions of the several states, and refers to the particular volumes of reports in which they may be found. The present volume contains a systematic arrangement of the cases decided and published in the following states ; viz. Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, and Tennessee. The editor says in his advertisement, that 'in the execution of his undertaking he has generally followed the plan of his predecessors; the object be ing to give merely a compendium of the points actually decided, he has not considered himself at liberty to introduce the dicta of judges, however respectable, but has confined himself to a concise statement of the opinion of the court, upon the main subject of inquiry in each case.'

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This pamphlet is ably written. On the merits of the argument we shall not pretend to decide. We are inclined to think, however, that the ground taken is too broad. There can be no doubt, that a few large and well endowed Colleges would do more for the cause of science and letters in general, than a multitude of smaller institutions, but it is quite certain that no rule can be established under our forms of government. Every state has a right to make

as many colleges as it pleases, and the spirit of rivalry, if nothing else, will always prompt to a free exercise of this right. And when you look at the principles of the case, there seems no reason why one part of a state, or any particular class of people in a state, should have the exclusive privilege of a college; nor why any association of persons may not found and support a college, if they can raise funds for the purpose, and are disposed to appropriate them in this way. This, perhaps, may be deemed an evil, but it seems to us a necessary consequence of our free political institutions. It is also productive of one benefit, which is not of slight importance, and that is, the greater amount of means, which will be thus appropriated for education by states and individuals, in proportion as a greater number of persons, and a greater variety of interests are concerned.

The following facts contained in this pamphlet, are curious and worthy of attention.

'The only just ground of estimating the future resort of students to this State, (Connecticut,) is an inquiry into the means of education in those parts of our country, from which they have hitherto proceeded. From Massachusetts, for a considerable period of time past, as appears by the College catalogues, between fifty and sixty students have come annually to this State for instruction, chiefly from those towns which lie in the valley of the Connecticut. In the centre of that population, a Collegiate Institution has recently sprung up, which, amidst great embarrassments and without authority to confer degrees, has collected more than one hundred and thirty students. Its endowments are stated to exceed one hundred thousand dollars; and its patronage and wealth to be continually increasing. When clothed with the full powers of a College, by a charter from the State, which must soon be granted, that institution is expected by its friends, and on this ground has its cause been repeatedly argued before the Legislature, to withhold from Connecticut very many of those youth, who would otherwise seek instruction here.

'From the State of New York, for many years past, between forty and fifty students have received their education in Connecticut. In that State, however, the most honorable exertions are making to provide the means of education at home. "Funds to the amount of $750,000 have been granted to the three Colleges, which are steadily increasing in the number of their students. Two new Colleges have recently been incorporated, one under the auspices of the Methodists, and another under those of the Episcopalians; and the immense resources and enterprise of that State will secure, to those institutions, the most ample support. It can hardly be expected, therefore, that Connecticut will long be called upon to educate, at least to any great extent, the youth of New York.

'From the State of South Carolina, fifteen or twenty students have, for a long period resorted to this State for instruction. In that State, likewise, the most liberal provision is now made for the instruction of their youth at home. Two hundred thousand dollars have already been expended on buildings and other accommodations for their University; and twelve thousand dollars are annually paid from the public treasury, for the support of the instructers. An attempt is also making, under the Bishop of that diocess, to revive a College, which has, for many years, been nearly extinct, in order to provide more fully, for the instruction of youth within the State.

'In North Carolina, which formerly sent a considerable number of students to be educated in Connecticut, the University has gained so high and deserved a reputation, that her youth are retained almost entirely at home. The endowments of that institution are said to exceed $400,000; and the rigid discipline, which is there maintained, demonstrates what has been doubted by many, that Colleges can be effectually governed in the southern States. In Georgia, the University has been revived within a short period, and the number of students is already one hundred and twenty. Very few youth, from that State, now resort to Connecticut for an education. In Alabama, funds to the amount of nearly half a million of dollars are appropriated to the support