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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 18, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 16.

BOOK NOTICES

"Groscup's Synchronic Chart of United States History." Price $1.50. Windsor Publishing Company, New York.

This is a unique and very valuable work. The author is Prof. George E. Groscup, whose work is supplemented by a "Chronological Text" by Ernest D. Lewis, A.M., instructor of history, High School of Commerce, New York. The object of the volume is to make "history visible." It also makes it interesting, not only by its text, but by its progressive maps, its statistical tables of political and economic progress, and its synchronic chart or diagram. This shows at a glance the important events of our nation's history, so arranged that its relation to others in time and place can be seen at a glance. Each State has its historic line on this chart, where its origin and subsequent history may be traced, as well as its relation to other States. European influence is indicated by various colors. The chronology is marked by lines dividing the chart into centuries and quarters, the national line being marked by years. It is divided into two parts, "The Leading Events in United States History," and "National Development." There are nineteen chapters, and fifty illustrations, maps, charts, and diagrams. It also refers to many valuable works on United States history for reading. Every teacher, every student of history, and every school library ought to possess a copy. It needs only to be known to be appreciated. The book brings us into the year 1910.