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ties of the various auditors; sixty to the War and Navy Li nearly forty 
to the Interior department, etc. 
It will be quite a surprise to most readers to obtain an adequate idea of the 
magnitude of the details and operations of the government offices as described in 
this work, and to be informed that they can learn more from it by a careful pe- 
tusal, which might occupy a few hours, than they could in many months of con- 
stant daily investigation in Washington City. 
Such a book is of great value to all classes of citizens, for every one has 
business with the departments which can be transacted just as well by direct cor- 
respondence as through an agent or attorney, did the applicant know whom to 
address. It would be a good text book for the higher classes in our schools, and 
if kept abreast of the changes in the different departments by means of success- 
ive editions, even congressmen and the officers in the different departments, 
themselves, would find it an important book of reference. 
ADAMS’ SYNCHRONOLOGICAL CHART OF History: By S. C. Adams; Published 
by Jay Andrews & Co., Chicago. For sale at Kansas City, by Rev. J. S. 
Card ng27 5: 
In these days of object teaching, nothing could be more apropos than the 
introduction of this work; a chart upon which in one picture is shown the his- 
tory of the world from B. C. 4004 to A. D. 1878. It isa chromo-lithograph, over 
twenty feet long and twenty-eight inches wide, yet so folded as to be as easily 
handled as an atlas, each fold turning over like the leaf of a book; or the whole, 
or any desired portion, can be spread out at a time for examination. 
The length of the chart is divided by perpendicular lines into the fifty-nine 
centuries and their decades; across these century spaces, pass from left to right, 
colored lines or streams that represent the different historic nations (and lives of 
the patriarchs), and change their color to indicate every change of rulers; these 
streams divide, sub-divide, unite or disappear according to the record of the 
nation represented; thus every nation with its consecutive rulers and all the lead- 
ing facts of history are placed upon a fixed scale and presented to the eye in their 
proper relations as to time, just as geographically a map locates towns, rivers, 
and countries. Meridians intersect places of the same longitude, in the same 
manner that century and decade lines on this chart mark contemporaneous na- 
tions, rulers and events. 
The origin of nations, their grand march through the centuries, and their 
final overthrow, are prominent features, while the confused mass of dates and 
events that ususlly comprise our knowledge of history, is so sifted and synchro- 
nized, so lighted with colors, models and illustrations, that the centuries of the 
past seem transformed into individual realities, marked with their peculiar char- 
acteristics. The plan of the chart is so simple that children can readily under- 
stand it, and so comprehensive that it is in itself a historical cyclopzedia for the 
mature scholar. 
