The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-12-22

The work originally published under the title o
THE new AMERICAN, .CYCLoP EDlA wa
cuaiion which 1t has attained in all parts of tn
United States, and the signal Developments which
have taken place In every branch of science, litera
ture and art have Induced the ditors and publish
ers TO submit 1t TO exact and thorough revision
and to , Issue nsw edition entitled THE AMEkI
very in every department OF knowledge has made
new work Of reference an imperative want.
with The discoveries of science and their fruitful
application to the Industrial and useful arts anC
the convenience aud refinement Of social life
Great wars and consequent revolutions have oc
Cured, Involving nalonal changes Of peculiar mo
ment. The civil wsr Of our own country, which
was at It's height when the last volume Of the ole
work appeared, has happily been ended, and new
course OF commercial and Industrial activity has
been commenced.
Large accessions TO our geographical knowledge
Africa.
The great political revolutions Of the last decade
With the natural result of the lapse Of time, have
brought into public view a multitude of new men
whose names are iu every one : mouth, and OF
whose lives every one Is curious to know the par
portant seges maintained, Of which the details are
rs 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 1t
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most recent discoveries 10 science, of every fresh
pr ductlon in literature and OF the newest lnven-
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The illustrations which arc introduced for the first
time In the present edition. have been added not Tor
the sake Of pictorial effect, but to give greater
lucIdiiy and force to The explanations In the text.
They embrace all branches of science and Of natural
history, and depict the most famous aud remarka-
bic features OF scenery, architecture, and nrt, rs
well as the various processes or mechanics and
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