During the past two years the Public Schools Special Committee has been considering a report on the teaching of Arithmetic. One of the chief principles underlying the report may be put shortly as follows. The Arithmetic course in the past has contained a good deal that a very large nurnber of teachers regard as unprofitable, or at any rate as less profitable than other subjects that might be substituted for it. It is proposed that such parts of the Arithmetic course should not be set in the compulsory Arithmetic paper in Pass Examinations, so that those people who do not wish to teach them are not compelled to do so.