Ann Arbor's Illustrated Boomer

At last, aftor weeks of waiting, the irnich heralded Headlight has nppeared. T!he puMisher.s shcmlcl changa th ename to Brealigfat. Many o{ the people -vvhose portralte nnd biographles appear therein die off before ithe thing gets around, thus diminishing the interest fjelt in it. There appears to be some diversity of opinión in regarfl to the merits of this puWication. To a practical printer it looks very cheap. There has been an attempt to crowd too much material into too small a space, to the detriment; of the -vhole thing. The portraits of the tinivereity peoplle for instance, have the appearance of those diminutiTe tin-types 20 of Avhich arO sold for 15 cents. Had more space (been deroted to Itmidlings and descriptions and less to pictures of tutors and their biographies, the value of the book as "boom edition" -would hare been 'greatly enhianced. The old cuts of the ball teams, and glee club, etc., tend further toward nxaklog it a cheap John affair. There is but one first class page oí illustratkms in the entire work, and that is page 33. Same of the) cuts iKHvever, are passably fair. Bui few of the residences show -v-hat they really are, and no one would get any cooeeption of the city itself from the book. Hon. J. T. Jacobs' house resem'bles a Caarnaugli Iake suinmer ccrttage and ETart Scott's resiOence is almoet entirely in the perspective. The picture oí the High School is no. made from a photograph (at least it cloesn't .look ais if it was) and it iB a uiiglity pooi' illustration. No one would recognize the opera house. The churches, without exception, are diminutive and indifferent pictures. The Umrversity buildings miglit be termed íair, but no 6tress oould be laid on that. -v-itli the exception, perhaps of the medical building. No artietic taste has been osed in taking the vierws, if any views were eTer taken, from wbich these illustratioos were made. The representatioiis of the Ann Arbor AgTicultural Works and I.uick Bros', mili, the Michigan Furniture Oo's buildings, the Gas "Works, etc, are Bomething wonderiul to gaze upon. Nö ome familiar with either would recogTiize them, and the only salvatioo for tbem is, that like the Echool boy's picture of a cow, they are labeled. The interior view of University Hall, showing the big organ in a 'diminutiTe way in the back ground, "will pasa good work.. This is not wrttten in a captious or envious spirit, but simply as an honest opinión of Wie merits of the publicatioin. Tlie cuts representing the college orgamizations detract rom the valué as a boom edition, and giving up so much space in biography and portraits to unimportant people at the UniTerslty lumbers up the book tó tQue exclulsion of valuable matter. It is all rigiht as a souvenir for studente nöw attending the University, classes who gradúate this year particularly, but for a work for iAnn Arbor people to send away to üielp build up the city it "will not compar with the pamphlet issued by the Ana Arbor Business Men'a Association somf years ago. This is simply an opinión. If nny of our readers feel differently about it, we are Tery glad of it.