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TABULAU VIEWS OF UNIVERSAL HISÏORY. A serles of Chronologlcal Tables preseullng In parallel columns a record of the more uotewortliy eyents in the llistory of the World from Mie earllest times down to 1893. Complled by O. P. Putnam, A. M ., and contlnued to date by Lynds K. Jones. New York: Q. P. l'utimm's Son. Ann Arbor Tor sale by George Wahr. Prlce $1.75' For a stuhII work this ia quite a Talosbit one, especially to the student or editor wlio lias occasion to refer to important events. Tuere are inany things In it that wilt make it h desirable work of reference. But there are soine tilinga lelt out that look a little queer to us Western people. For instaiice you vvill look in vain tlirough lts records to Mini wliun Michigan was admitted to the Union, though nearly II the otlier states are ei ven. With this book for authority you will have to believe ihnt Michigan, like Topsy, '"never was boined but just growed up." Then again in regard to Untverslties We flnd that Harvard Universiiy was founded in 1638, Williams and Mary College in 1693, Yale in 1701. Girard College and Universlty of New York were cotnmenced in 1S33; that a unirerslty was founded at Sydney, at New South Wals, in 1850; and bo on, but not a word between itg lids that sucli an iustitution as the University of Micliipan ever hatl an exlstencf; and yet that University leaiU all others in the new world in poinl of numbers, and its standard is second to none on the American continent. The ompiler of the work evidcntly never trareled west very much. W il l the eastern people please take nolioe that for this year the Ü. of M. has 2,355 studente in atteiidance, while Harvard has 2,251? that lts standard of ccholarship is equal, if not superior to Yale or Harvard ; that its doors were thrown open to women the first of any in the country; that it has alwiiy taken and maintaineil an ad vaneed po.-iuon in the world of letters, which the eastern colleges and universities have had to follow; and that it is to-day to the United States what Oxford aud Cambiidge are to Kngland?