The society has held three successful meetings since its organization, the most recent being the spring meeting of 1909, held May 1, at the State University. At this meeting valuable papers were read by Professor E. M. Violette, of the State Normal School at Kirksville, on “Setting the Problem,” and by Professor C. A. Ellwood, of the Department of Sociology of the University of Missouri, on “How History Can be Taught from a Sociological Point of View.” The meetings ended by the election of the following officers: President, Mr. H. R. Tucker, McKinley High School, St. Louis; vice-president, Mr. J. L. Shouse, Westport High School, Kansas City; secretary-treasurer, Professor Eugene Fair, Normal School, Kirksville, and editor, Professor N. M. Trenholme, University of Missouri, Columbia. The next meeting of the society will be held at Christmas time in St. Louis in connection with the State Teachers’ Association meeting. THE MEETING OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION AT ST. LOUIS, JUNE 17-19. The semi-annual meeting of this organization was held in the rooms of the Missouri Historical Society at St. Louis, June 17-19. The general subject of discussion was the historical importance of the physiography and ethnology of the Mississippi Valley, and the papers, presented by well-known middle western scholars, served to bring out the great importance of physical and racial factors in American development. This association is affiliated with the American Historical Association in an unofficial way, and is doing excellent work for the history of the region in which it is specially interested. The secretary-treasurer is Clarence S. Paine, of Lincoln, Neb. * * * * * Alive to the Student’s Need For stirring, gripping work in American history look to Professor Mace. He comes to the task with every sense alert for the student’s help, and with every means in hand to give the truest and most intelligent conception of history. The impression he makes is unforgettable. In Mace’s Primary History Stories of Heroism the author takes our great men in every line of life by periods--men who fought for the good against the bad; he shows them living, throbbing with power, _doing_. He cuts them into the child’s memory. And when the student comes to the later grades, he knows his people, chooses his leaders, and follows them. In Mace’s School History of the United States the treatment of periods broadens, and the men the child now knows live their big stirring lives through the family, social and industrial development, through the religious, educational and governmental progress. They thrill and move the child, steady his thought and build up his respect for the greatness gone before--they teach him to know his own responsibility in the affairs of the world to-day. Illustrated with pen-drawings that mean something Rand McNally & Company CHICAGO NEW YORK * * * * *