Transcriber’s Notes: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_), and text enclosed by equal signs is in bold (=bold=). Additional Transcriber’s Notes are at the end. * * * * * The History Teacher’s Magazine Volume I. Number 2. PHILADELPHIA, OCTOBER, 1909. $1.00 a year 15 cents a copy CONTENTS. PAGE GAIN, LOSS AND PROBLEM IN RECENT HISTORY TEACHING, by Prof. William MacDonald 23 TRAINING THE HISTORY TEACHER IN THE ORGANIZATION OF HIS FIELD OF STUDY, by Prof. N. M. Trenholme 24 INSTRUCTION IN AMERICAN GOVERNMENT IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS, by Prof. William A. Schaper 26 LESSONS DRAWN FROM THE PAPERS OF HISTORY EXAMINATION CANDIDATES, by Elizabeth Briggs 27 THE STUDY OF WESTERN HISTORY IN OUR SCHOOLS, by Prof. Clarence W. Alvord 28 THE NEWEST STATE ASSOCIATION AND AN OLDER ONE, by H. W. Edwards and Prof. Eleanor L. Lord 30 AN ANCIENT HISTORY CHARACTER SOCIAL, by Mary North 31 EDITORIAL 32 EUROPEAN HISTORY IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOL, by Daniel C. Knowlton 33 ENGLISH HISTORY IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOL, by C. B. Newton 34 ROBINSON AND BEARD’S “DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN EUROPE,” reviewed by Prof. S. B. Fay 35 AMERICAN HISTORY IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOL, by Arthur M. Wolfson 36 JAMES AND SANFORD’S NEW TEXTBOOK ON AMERICAN HISTORY, reviewed by John Sharpless Fox 37 ANCIENT HISTORY IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOL, by William Fairley 38 FOWLER’S “SOCIAL LIFE AT ROME,” reviewed by Prof. Arthur C. Howland 39 HISTORY IN THE GRADES--THE COLUMBUS LESSON, by Armand J. Gerson 40 REPORTS FROM THE HISTORICAL FIELD, edited by Walter H. Cushing: The Colorado Movement; Raising the Standard in Louisiana; the North Central Association; Syllabus in Civil Government; Report of the Committee of Eight; the New England Association; Bibliographies; Exchange of Professors in Summer Schools 41 CORRESPONDENCE 44 Published monthly, except July and August, by McKinley Publishing Co., Philadelphia, Pa. Copyright, 1909, McKinley Publishing Co. * * * * * Good Words from Correspondents Concerning the Magazine “The first number of the ‘Magazine’ is exceedingly interesting, and the program for the October number promises just as good a one.” J. C. E.