Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-10-08


s6s- We have volume Of the New
American Cyclopaedia of General Know
ledge before us, whilst we write, and the
examination we have made into its charac-
ter, satisfies us it is the work Of the age
1t is in process of publication by the APP
pletons, of New York, and will be com
prised in fifteen octave volumes Of $50
pages-the three first volumes being now
ready for delivery. The magnitude Of the
undertaking reflects the highest credit
upon the enterprising spirit of the pub
fishers, and the amount of talent they
have brought to bear upon each and every
department of the work evinces purpose
to do well what they have undertaken
which is simply to furnish library in
fifteen volumes, comprising all the i'm
portant information now scattered through
a thousand books. The mechanic of every
degree, the lawyer, doctor, preacher, editor,
merchant, farmer literary man, and man
of leisure-each and all, guided by an
alphabetical index, can refer to this great
work, with the certainty of being acc urste-
ly informed upon any point Of interest in
science, art, agriculture, commerce, law
medicine, history, geography, philosophy,
politics, religion, and every other branch
of knowledge. The writer's for the Cyclic
paedia have been selected for their talents
and intimate knowledge of the subject
they treat, and by this means concisness,
accuracy and elegance of style have been
attained to an extent impracticable by any
other arrangement-nothing superAuous
cumbers its pages, nothing valuable is
emitted, yet it reaches back into remote
antiquity, and comes down to the day Of
publication.
Such a dictionary of facts is an invalu-
able auxiliary to the acquisition of know.
ledge, and especially is it important to all
whose vocations allow them not the time
for tedious research, or whose means are
too limited to authorize them to buy the
mass of books over whose pages is diffused
the information acknowledgements
in this Cyclopaedia, by hands that are
skilled to prune the tree of knowledge
without diminishing the abundance of it,
fruit As a book of reference, this is des
tined to supersede all others Of similar
character, not only here, but in othel
countries, and we have cause to be proud
Of it as a national work.-American il
many of its features, but universal in it
selection of important facts.
The price, per volume, varies fsom three
to five and half dollars, according t.
binding, and the twelve volumes yet to b,
published, will be delivered at intervals o
two to three months. Prof. VIM. Merrill
late Superintendent of Public Schools
Mobile, and the General Agent for tn,
Appletons, is now in town, and will b,
pleased to afford our citizens an opportuni
ty to subscribe for the work, and the forth
coming volumes will be distributed t.
subscribers by Thomas & Brother, loca
Agents.
AS proof of the estimation in which
this whork-is held in Nashville, wher
$50 subscribers have already been obtain
ed, we subjoin the following recommends
ton from the distinguished Clergymel
whose names are appended:
NASHVILLE, Sept. 28th 1858.
PROF. WIN. MERRILL,
DEAR SIR:
We the undersigned, having examines
the first three volumes of the New Ameri
can Cyclopndia, published by Messrs. d
Appletons, we take great pleasure in re
commencing the same to the citizens @
Tennessee, feeling sure that the work vii
meet the wants of all classes of GU
citizens. Professional men know tn