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1850. Why, having weighed in the balance two periods which the na- 

 tion lias completed, did he halt before the third period, which the nation 

 had likewise completed? The fourth period, which we are now travers- 

 ing, is unfinished and its earlier events lack perspective; but that cannot 

 be said of the years between 1850 and 1876. It would have been a priv- 

 ilege to be led through that storm of words and swords and readjustment 

 by so intelligent a gnide as Mr Thorpe. 



Every page of this " Constitutional History of the American People" 

 commands respect and admiration. One may not always agree with its 

 premises and conclusions. Its dicta sometimes arouse dissent bordering 

 upon resentment; but faithfulness of research, honesty of purpose, and 

 ability of treatment are manifest throughout. The whole is a splendid 

 work, honorable to its scholarly author and sure of a permanent place 

 among the most valuable contributions to American history. 



Edwin A. Guosvhnor. 



A mli i' ml College. 



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Tiieue has been a steadily growing demand in the last few years for 

 better teaching of geography, and as earnest an effort on the part of many 

 teachers to meet that demand. The National Geographic Magazine 

 proposes to aid the work by presenting in its pages a series of articles 

 written by those most fitted to speak: able geographers who are also 

 teachers of renown. Prof. Wm. M. Davis, of Harvard, opens this series 

 with an article which appears elsewdiere in this number, and which is 

 soon to be followed by a second from him on field and laboratory methods 

 of teaching geography. Commissioner Harris, of the Bureau of Educa- 

 tion, will treat the subject in several of its aspects, and a number of other 

 equally prominent educators have promised articles which are to appear 

 in the Magazine within the next few months. 



The Association Review is the title of an educational magazine to be 

 published bimonthly during the school year by the American Associa- 

 tion to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf, and edited by Frank 

 \V. Booth, the general secretary and treasurer of the association. The 

 first number of the magazine, that for October, is an exceedingly inter- 

 esting and instructive number, and includes among its contents: "The 

 Teacher and the State," by John M. Tyler; "Kindergarten Work in 

 Schools for the Deaf," by Edward C. Rider; " Pictures and How to Use 

 Them," by Florence C. MacDowell, and a number of briefer papers. An 

 excellent picture of the late Hon. Gardiner G. Hubbard is accompanied 

 by a brief biographical sketch of his great life-w r ork. The number also 

 contains the proceedings of the sixth summer meeting of the association, 

 held in Northampton, Mass., June 22-28, 1899, and includes addresses by 

 Hon. F. 1>. Sanborn, L. Clark Seelye, LL. D., and the address of the 

 president, Dr Alexander Graham Bell. 



The Scottish Geographical Magazine for October is mainly a report of the 

 proceedings Of the sixty-ninth annual meeting of t lie British Association, 



