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 AN AMERICAN HISTORY By DAVID SAVILLE MUZZEY, Columbia University 688 pages, illustrated. Muzzey's " American History " is now more widely used than any other American history for high-school and college classes. It is the product of that rare combination of qualities — sound scholarship, a dis- criminating sense of historical value and proportion, and a strong, vivid style that makes history as interesting as a story book. It presents the facts of our history in a lively and continuous narrative without prejudice or favor, and it is distinctly modern in tone and outlook. Features of the book are its emphasis on the westward-moving frontier as the most constant • and potent force in our history and the unusually large amount of space devoted to the history of our country since the Civil War. Special emphasis is placed on political development and on those factors in our national growth which are most vital from the standpoint of to-day. Teachers who have long been dissatisfied with the conventional textbook which leaves a gap between past and present will find this history just what they have been looking for. READINGS IN AMERICAN HISTORY Edited by DAVID SAVILLE MUZZEY xxvii + 594 pages. One hundred and twenty-five selections, comprising extracts from state papers, private journals and letters, the early chronicles, the speeches and writings of public men, and newspaper narrative and comment, A unique feature is the frequent presentation of several extracts on a single topic. OUTLINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY By JONAS VILES, University of Missouri Cloth, 92 pages. A TOPICAL outline to accompany Muzzey's " American History," so arranged that topics can readily be divided when necessary. GINN AND COMPANY Publishers