The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-01-08
'KETTRELY REwRrTTEE BY THE ABLEsT wRrTERs
on EVERY sUBJEcT, PRINTED FROM NEW:
TYPE. AND ILLUSTRATED WITH sEvE-
RAJ Observation-Disclosures
AND MAPS.

THE Hhs E SW o HMaRzBa ssess | hs s
culalion which it has attained In all parts or The
United States, and the signal developments which
ture, and art have induced the ditors ana publish
ers to submit 1t 10 IN exact and thorough revision
ana to Issue AZ new edition entitled THE AMERi
Within the last ten years the progress of disco
very In every department. OF Knowledge has made
The movement of political affairs Inns 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 wars and consequent revolutions have oc-
CURED, Involving national changes of peculiar mo-
ment. The civil war of our own country, which
was ut 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 accessions to our geographical knowledge
have been made by the interchangeable explorers or
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 In every ones mouth, and of
whose lives every one Is curious to know the par
ticulars. Great battles have been fought and i'm
as yet preserved only IN the newspapers or In the
transient publications Of the day, but which ought
now 10 take their Place In permanent and authentic
history. -
In preparing the present edition for the press It
has accordingly been the aim of the editors to
bring down the Information to the latest posi- BILE
dates, and to furnish an accurate account Of the
most recent discoveries IN science, of every fresh
pr ductionin literature and OF the newest inven-
tons In the practical arts, we'll as TO gyea suc
cnct and original record Of the progress of politi
cal and historical events.
The work has heen begun after long and careful
preliminary labor, aud with the SGost ample re-
sources for carrying 1t OH to successful terminus
ton. -.r..
used but every page has ben printed on new type,
forming in fact a new Cyclopndia with the same
plan and compass as Its predecessor. but with far
IN rs as ben
| ledge. -
The illustrations which are introduced for the first
time IN the present edition. have been added not for
the sake of pictorial effect, but to give greater
!ncidlty and force to the explanations IN the text:
history, and depict the most famous and remarka-
BILE features of scenery, architecture and art, as
manufactures. Although Intended for instruction
rather than establishment, no p.ins have been
spared to insure their artistic excellence. The cost
of their execution Is enormous, and 1t Is believed
they will find a welcome reception as an admirable
| feature of the Cycopadil, and worthy Of Its high
This work is sold to subscribers only, payable on
delivery Of each volume. 1t will be completed in
sixteen large octave volumes each containing about
800 pages, fully illustrated with several thousand
wood cngrayings, and numerous colcrcd ltho.
graphic maps.
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Three volumes now ready. Succeeding volumes
until completion, will be issued once In two months
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