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AMERICAN CYCLOPEOIA.
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The work originally published rdar the title of
TIE NEW ANGLICAN, .CYCLor;EDfA was
coESed IN 1892 snes ThiGh TIM the Mis cir ,
United States, and the signal developments which
have taken place in every branch of science ltcra-
ture, aud art have induced the dtors ana publish
c.s to submit 1t to an exact and thorough revision
and to issue new edition entitled HE AMEkl-
CAN CiCLOPEDIh.
within the last ten years the progress Of disco
very in every department OF knowledge has made 4
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 social life.
Great and consequent revolutions lave oc-
Cured, involving na;lonal changes OF peculiar mo-
mcnt The civil war Of our own country, which
was at its height when the last volume of the old
work appeared has happily been ended, and new
course OF commercial and industrial activity has
been commenced.
have been made by the interchangeable explorers OF
Africa.
The great political revolutions of The last decade,
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 par
ticulars. Great battles have been fe.$ht and i'm
portanl segcs maintained, Of which the details are
as yet preserved only IN the ewspapers or III me
transient publications Of the day, but which ought
now to take their Place In permanent anu authentic
history.
in preparing the present edition for the press it
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bring down the Information TO the latest possible
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pr duction in literature, and Of the newest inrcn-
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provemens In It's composition us have been sug-
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