Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-16
THE WORK ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED

| VlIIE WORK ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED
4 under the title of THE NEW AMERICAN CY-
| CLOP.RDIA was completed in 1853, since which
time the wide circulation which it has attained
in all parts OF the United States, and the signal
developments which have taken place in every
branch of science, literature, and art, have in
duced the editors and publishers to submit It to
| an exact and thorough revision, and TO issue u
new edition entitled The AMERICAN CYCLIC
| PxEDIA.
Within the last ten years the progress of dis
cOveTy in every department Of knowledge has
made new work OF reference an Imperative
want
The movement of political affairs has kept
pace with the discoveries OF science, and their
fruitful application to the industrial and useful
arts and the convenience and refinement OF so
cial life. Great wars and consequent TevOlu-
| tons have occurred, involving national changes
OF peculiar moment. The civil war of our OWE
country, which was at its height when the last
volume of the Old work appeared, has happily
been ended, and a new course OF commercial
| and industrial activity has been commenced.
Large aecessOns to our geographical knOWl-
edge have been made by the indetatgable eX-
plOreTs of Africa.
The great political revolutions of the last de-
cade, with the natural result Of the lapse Of
time, have brought into public view multitude
of new men, whose names are in every ones
mouth, and of whose lives every one is curious
to know the particulars. Great battles have
been fought and important sieges maintained,
OF which the details are as yet preserved only In
the newspapers or in the transient publications
of the day but which ought now to take their
place in permanent and authentic history.
In preparing the present edition for the press,
il has accordingly been the aim of the editors to
bring down the Information to the latest possible
dates, and to furnish an accurate account of the
most recent discoveries IN science OF every
fresh production i'll literature, and Of the newest
inventions in the practical arts, as well as TO
give a suceinct and original record OF the pro-
gress of political and historical events.
The work has been begun after long and care
full preliminary labor, and with the most ample
resources for carrying it On to a successful ter
minatiOn.
None of the original stereotype plates have
been used, but every page has been printed ON
new type, forming in fact a new CyclOP@dia,
with the same plan and compass as its predeces-
sOr, but with a far greater pecuniaTy expendi-
ture, and with such Improvements IN its cOmpO-
sitiOn as have been suggested by longer expert
cnce and enlarged Knowledge.
The illustrations which are introduced for the
first time in the present edition have been added
not for the sake of pictorial effect, but 10 give
greater lucidity and force to the explanations IN
the text They embrace all branches OF science
and of natural history, and depict the most IA
nous and remarkable features Of scenery, arch
itecture, and art, as well as the various processes
of mechanics and manufactures Although in
tended for instruction rather than embelliSi-
ment, no pains have been spared to insure their
artistic excellence; the cost of their execution IS
enormous. and it Is believed they VIII IND wei
come reception as an admirable feature of the
CyclOp8dia, and worthy of its high character.
This work is sold to subscribers only, pay
able delivery Of each volume. 10 VIII De
completed in sixteen large octave volumes, each
containing about 500 pages, fully Illustrated
with several thousand Wood EEgraytngs, and
with numerous cOlOred LithOgraphic Maps
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