New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-06-02
TILE NEW CYCLOPEDIA.

THE NEW CYCLOPEDH.
THE NEW AMERICAN CYCLOPEDIA: A Popular DictiOu;
CamLRs A. DASA. Volume XII. Mozsmbilue-PsrE
hew-YOrk: d. Appleton Co.
As this work is to be brought within sixteen vol
umes it is now tbree-guartes completed. The first
volume having been issued in 1857 may safely cal
cuDte that the last will appear in lS62-Probably before
the MIDDLE Of that year. The success of this great 1T
erary enterprise involving an outlay of not lees than
la { Million Dollars, is therefore assured. For the
benefit Of our many readers who haze never yet seen
u volume of this or airy o;her kindred work, we pro-
pose 10 give such brief account of the current volume
a. will be interesting TO them only.
The work il large doube-column octave, printed
closely vet clearly, 40 to 796 pages 10 the volume.
The number of articles Tor subjects treated in this vol
ume exceeds eleven hundred, beside nearly two hund'
red more which are limited to reference to another
part of tue work wherein the subject here reached in
coulse i. treated under different name. Among the
articles embodied in the volume before u.s. the devotee
Of Science and General knowledge will be interested
ia those which treat of Music, Mythology, Names,
Napbtha, Navigation, Nebula, Nebular Hypothesis,
Newspapers. Nitrogen, Normal Schools Novels, Eu-
nsmnliss Oak Observatory, Cd, oolite, Optics, Or
rnaia. Painting, Paints Paaon,ology, Palimpsest,
Palm, Panihesm, Paper, Paper Mache, Papyris
>araine and Parliament; while the lawyer will more
especially o,e those which treat Of Murder Mutiny,
NATURALIZATION Nisi Prus, Negotiable Paper, Mole
Prosequi, Nonsut Notary Public, Nuisance Oath,
Occupancy, Ordeal, Outluwry, oyer and Tefmmer,
aud Pardon the physician may prefer to glance at
those which deal with Mucus, humps, Marian, Mus
Gle Narcotic. Nervous Sysem and lie Diseases, Net
tie Rash. Neuralgia. Nicotine, Night SHADE, Nutrition
Obstetrics, Ointment, Opium, OPode'doc, Ophtba
MIA. ONiic Acid, Papcreas Paralysis, sud Pa
rUid GiuI Even the patriot may find something
sdap,ed 1, bis immediate want under the beads Na'i
cation Laws. Navy, Neutrality, Norfolk, Ohio River
Old Point Comfort, Osiracism, Paduca,, Paixbans
Palsadcs. and +. role.
OF the Geographical and Statistical articles in ,hi
! volume, the more important treat Of Nebra-ka. the
| Ne,he rauds, New Granada, New-Me&ico New Soutl
| Whlls Ne,S-Zealand, Newfoundland Nicaragua, Tho
Me, Norway, Noya-Scoit, Palestine, Paraguay, aht
| tie Pacific Ocean. OF States, we have accounts o
| Ntw-HamI shire, New-Jersey, New-iork, North Car
DINA Ohio, aud Oregon; Of cities, the more important
| are Munich, MuscIt, Marking Nantes, Naples, Nash
! Nille Natchez New Bedford, New-liayen. Newton
! don, New-Ofleans, New-Yofk, Newark, Newcastle
I
! Newport, Nice, Ncomedia, Nneyeb, Ningpo, Norfolk
Northampton Not,nghsu, Novgorod, N.Iorrmis,o
Ode.si, onorto. 0rleHps, 0stend, Oswego. Oxford
p4.i~- - - p-lmITa, Pam1eluua, Panama, Para
, -..--a arilsV, 90"
! marble Paris, aud Parma.
/ Although moot Of the articles necessarily short
Newspapers are accorded eeycnpagcs-equal 10 thirty
in an a'engc l2mo. yoluine-E,irly cranmed with IN
terestiq facts Calculating the origin history and
present condition of the Press TIE city of Paris is
accorded ten pages, New York, eighteen; the State
thirteen Naturalization il carefully treated to tue ex'
! tent Of twelve pages. Negro aud Mulatto together
have le's than two pages, which The Heratd will
doubtless cite as additional evidence that he War has
repressed the inePressible" Panthesm has scarcely
more than page, which is TOO litrle
Biography seems to be less prominent In this volume
than in mos of it, predecessors though among its sub
Murra,S Napiers, Nashes, Nannanos, Nelson's Neros,
Newtons, Neys, Nichoses, Nicholtons, Neses,
NoaiIIeses Nortls, Norone, Nots Nunezes OberIins,
Obrnoyitches, o Councils, Oleanses Orols, 0rsinis,
Osgoods, Othos, Owens, Pages, pahlens, Paines,
Palmers Panckouckts, Paolis, Pdrsos, Parks, and
Paikers. That Of Admiral Lord Nelson the longest,
coyen barely four pages that Of Daniel O'Connell,
but two; that Of Lord Palmersion little more than
a Pare and half.
1t is hardly probable that the present century will
witness the issue OF another American Cyclopadia,
and We congratulate countrymen tho approach.
ing completion Of credltabo in character, 10
univtro4 in scope, yet compact size and moderate
in cost. G.