^{page 15 note *} The way in which Dale treats his subject is both laborious and diffuse,— his admissions are ingenuous enough in that regard—and if those who are still found to advocate the explanation of mathematical rules without their generalization or reduction to formulæ and symbolic notation, would but read Dale's book carefully through, the process in many cases would lead to their entertaining a very different opinion. Let those, however, to whom the matter is new, first peruse the notice respecting a certain error of Dale, which is given in Baron Maseres' work, “The Principles of the Doctrine of Life Annuities, & c. London : 1783.”