A reprint of a work by the Late Robert Roberts with our addendum on the Twentieth century

This is not so much an attempt to convey a knowledge of history, as to afford a ready means of recalling it to memory. To most minds history is a chaotic maze. Leading facts may be known, but they are jumbled together in a formless way, which the mind comtemplates with a feeling of helplessness. By these tables leading events are grouped and divided up in limited periods than can be taken with a single cast of the eye.