Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-04-21

liz NEW AMsEicAN CYcLThDIA 4 P0IuLAR
i'hTioNARY o. GLSlRaL KNowLLDGp, edited
by CHARLES kIrLrF ahi CHARLES 4. DAHA.
New lrk, ID. Al ton 4 ca. s. Mar
til, Wimnst,wn, ayut for Vermont and
Ialada.
We have Received the continuation Of tlis
magnificent work up to part.XII, GIL 1t is
tlretdy advanced one-thir, and at the present
rate Of progress, by tue close of tbo current
year must be we'll nigh coapl@te. The diifr-
ent portions OF itappar with unfaiiing punctu-
ality, and arr delivered 20 last that we can
scare notice them in our columns one by one,
the working men engaged upon it are fully
organized and with each successive issue it is
il any thing, improved. Many decline to SUBJ,
scribe to Il work of this kind on the ground
that they will wait to see it finished, and then
1t 1t is of great value, and they need it, that
they can as well purchase it. But there azss.
thousands who would find themselves in posi-
session Of it, without feeling the expense, If
they bought the numbers as they appeared,
who will never have it, after it has become COM
plcte. IL VIII theh cost them over f0rty dol
lars-a large sum which few would find it con.
yenient to lavish at once. The young farmer.
the young mechanic, and all who would have
the sources of information upon any subject
within their reach should not neglect the on.
portunity now. While the papers are not ex-
haustive treatses, yet they are sufficiently full,
mi
They are popular, lively, ineligible, embracing
whatever belongs to the spirit of the present
age, not heavy, scholastic, dul-lke preceding
works. There is hardly man of our own
country eminent in Science, Letters, or Me-
chanic Arts who has not been called upon to
lend hand in his own department As the
best means of indicating the universal nature
of the work we annex a list of subjects taken
without much choice from the parts now before
US; Biography Biology; Birds; Blasting;
Bleaching; Blnd-very valuable in statistics,
and complete treatise; Blood-very elaborate:
Blue Laws; Bolivar Bonaparte, and Bona
parties of Baltimore-neary twenty pages;
Bone Dust; Book Binding; Book Selling;
Boston; Botany-Admirable, including an al
phabetical list of natives and foreigners who
have promoted the botany of the United States
and British America Bowditch Brazil
Brick; Charlotte Bronte James Buchanan
Buena Vista; Bulwer; Edmund Burke Cali
fornia Canada; Canal Carpentry Lewis
Cass; Cattle; Cements; Censorship of the
Press; Census Thomas Chalmers Champlain
Charles l and Charles II of England Charles
Martel, France; Charles III, ", V, vi, VII,
. VIII, TX, X, &c. &c.
The following is a list of the fine steel plate
engravlngs in the Parts before u.s. Part VIII.
l.. l. M. Daguerre, Inventor of Daguerreotypes;
Part TX, George M. Whistler Part X, James
Reynolds, Inventor of Machinery for insulating
Telegraph Wire for Submarine purposes Part
XII, Washington Irving Part XII, R. Napier,
Builder of the Engines of the Cunard Line.
On some future occasion, as it may bc inter-
esting to our readers, we will present list of
all authors engaged in writing for the American
Cyclopaedia, showing the immense combination
of labor and talents required for the consum-
nation of it, and in the mean time again hear
tily commend it to the attention of our readers.