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2001 ·R 33

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NEW EDITION.-Imperial folio, measuring 22 inches in depth, and when fully extended 17} FEET in length, and printed in twelve Colours in the highest style of Lithographic Art.

THE

Synchronological Chart

OF

Universal History

COMPRISING A

COMPLETE PICTORIAL, GRAPHIC & DESCRIPTIVE OUTLINE of the HISTORY of MANKIND

FROM THE CREATION OF THE WORLD TO THE PRESENT DAY.

EMBRACING

All Nations and Peoples in Biblical, Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Times,

and Vividly and Synchronologically portraying the Evolution of Human Civilization, and

the Rise and Progress of Literature, Science and Art.

PROFUSELY EMBELLISHED WITH MAPS, PORTRAITS, ENGRAVINGS, AND DIAGRAMS, ILLUSTRATING OR ELUCIDATING SCRIPTURAL GENEALOGIES, ANCIENT MYTHOLOGIES, MONUMENTAL

RECORDS, HIEROGLYPHICS, CITIES OF

AGES, THE WORLD'S GREAT EMPIRES,

TIONS, DISCOVERIES, ETC., ETC.

THE PAST

INVEN

ACCOMPANIED BY A

COLOURED DIAGRAM OF THE EARTH'S CRUST

DRAWN BY

PROFESSOR HULL, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S.

[P.T.O.

From the numerous Testimonials of Men and Women of Eminence and Scholarship, the following extracts have been made :—

"Your handsome Chart is a great work, and is well calculated to relieve the historical student from much laborious research."— Rt. Hon. Lord Aberdare, G.C.B., P.C.

"Your Chart is a text-book, a library of history, and a panorama in one. It has proved a centre of attraction to the members of my family and to my visitors."-Frederic Burrow, Esq., M.A., LL.D.

"The compilation must have involved an enormous amount of labour and research."-Rt. Hon. Lord Randolph Churchill, M.A., LL.D., M.P., P.C.

A very interesting and valuable production."-Sir Edward Clarke, Q.C., M.P.

"I have no doubt whatever that I shall find it a very useful, and certainly a very interesting assistant to the reading of history." Rt. Hon. Lord Coleridge, P.C.,

D.C.L.

'Admirably adapted for the purpose of illustrating the growth of human civilization. It is a help which every teacher ought to value."-Rt. Rev. Mandell Creighton, D.C.L., LL.D., Bishop of Peterborough.

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O Enables students to see what was going on simultaneously in different countries and in what way they influenced each other."-Rev. Canon Daniel, M.A., Principal of Battersea Training College.

"Extremely simple and easily understood."-Joseph R. Diggle, Esq., M.A., Chairman of the London School Board.

"Forms a very welcome addition to my library, and I cannot speak too highly of the research, industry, and skill which have been displayed a its compilation."-Rt. Hon. the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava,

K.P., G.C.S.I., G.C.M.G., P.C.

"Your Synchronological Chart of Universal History has the appearance of being a work of much interest."-Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone, D.C.L., LL.D., M.P., P.C.

"A marvel of ingenious arrangement."-Henry Irving, Esq.

"A marvel of ingenuity and industry. Old and young alike should derive much advantage from its contemplation and study."- The late Earl of Lytton.

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'Appears to contain a good deal of useful information in a handy compass."-Rt. Hon. the Earl of Rosebery, P.C., LL.D., F.R.S.

"My opinion respecting your Chart can only be that it is splendid and wonderful."-J. R. Seeley, Esq., M.A., Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge.

"I am glad to welcome your beautiful and valuable Synchronological Chart as a most useful instrument of education."-Rt. Rev. Wm. Stubbs, D.D., LL.D., &c., Lord Bishop of Oxford.

Useful to the student of his tory."-The late Lord Tennyson.

Your Chart is very elaborate and comprehensive. It should rank high amongst those luxuries of education which smooth the path of our grandchildren, but which were denied to us."-The late Archbishop Thomson.

"The design seems to be admirable, and the execution is, I have no doubt, equally worthy of praise." -Miss E. WELSH, Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge.

"Will be of great use to me in everyday life, and I think all public men will find it to be an admirable work of reference."-General the Rt. Hon. Viscount Wolseley, K.P., G.C.B., G.C.M.G., P.C., D.C.L., LL.D.

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