There may be objections to giving the same assignment of reading to the entire class, but I have found in my own work here that the students in the history courses of high school rank and those also of college rank do better work and get better results if they are, most of the time, given identically the same assignments of reading. I believe most firmly in the definite assignment of pages in a book for the day-after-day work. The student may be left to his own devices in some instances, but not in many. And the only way to make this plan work is to buy numerous duplicate titles of at least a few books, and to keep this up until all the books for general class work have been purchased. When that is done, then attention can be given to stocking up the library with those books that will be needed in single copies only. If there is anything fundamentally wrong with this method of doing things I should like to have it pointed out. So far it has been the way of salvation to us here and to many others around us. E. M. VIOLETTE. Department of History, State Normal School, Kirksville, Mo. Editor HISTORY TEACHER’S MAGAZINE. We have recently placed in our history and other classes a series of Underwood and Underwood stereographs. Will you kindly publish in THE HISTORY TEACHER’S MAGAZINE some suggestions as to how they may be used with profit? Among others we have placed one of the complete Italian tours. We shall have about 60 in Roman history next semester. Any suggestions you may see fit to publish will be highly appreciated. I cannot stop without telling you how much I enjoy the MAGAZINE. It grows better each month. The suggestions are very helpful. I have worked a number of them out, and find them exceedingly practical. It is always with considerable pleasure that I look forward to the delivery of the MAGAZINE. It is a timely publication, and will do much for the history teaching throughout the nation. C. R. G. Have our readers any suggestions to offer for such work? PACIFIC COAST BRANCH. The Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association held its annual meeting at Stanford University, November 19-20. The afternoon session of Saturday, the 20th, was devoted to History in the Secondary Schools, the topic being “Ancient History in the First Year of the High School.” A very practical paper was read by W. C. Westergaard, of the Alameda High School, on the subject, “Points of Contact between Ancient History and the Present.”