Identifier: magazineofamericv19stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
Subjects:
Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
is book. He is expected to go fur-ther. Questions are introduced calculated tostir thought and lead to critical investigation.It is recommended that pupils be required tostate the impressions produced on them by read-ing a work: what they think its leading feat-ures are, or what they imagine to be the objectwhich its author had in view in writing it. Ifthere is a plot its probability may be discussed.If the theme of the work is one that has beentreated by other writers, attention may be di-rected to differences of treatment, and parallelpassages should be cited. Then, again, commit-ting choice passages to memory is like sewinggood seed in the ground, which brings forth inafter years a bountiful harvest. One chapter isdevoted to an Outline Course of Study, andanother, entitled Miscellaneous Subjects, isextremely valuable. The book is one we cor-dially recommend to teachers, who will readilydiscover its limits and its possibilities. Itneeds only to be known tc become extensivelypopular.
Text Appearing After Image:
SIK JOSHUA REYNOLDS. KKOM THE MINIATHKK 1OKTKAIT HV HIS PUPIL, ARCHIBALD ROBERTSON, (Original painting in possession of Mrs. J. M. Goddard, granddaughter of A rchibald Robertson.\ MAGAZINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY Vol. XIX JUNE, 1888 No. 6 THE CONQUEST OF THE MAYAS MONTEJO IN THE INTERIOR, AND FOUNDATION OF MER1DA(Part II. Continued from page 330.) Having fully determined to remain some time at Chichen Itza, theAdelantado tried to persuade the inhabitants that he had their welfareat heart and was anxious to do everything in his power for their good.Following these tactics he won a few to his side, and caused them to helpin building dwellings like their own, to form a village for the Spaniards,a hundred and seventy taking up their abode there ; the rest were to stationthemselves in other parts of the country. In remembrance of his birth-place Montejo called the new settlement Salamanca. The seeming docility and good will of the people of Chichen threwthe Spaniards completely off their guard

Note About Images