The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-12-16

Entirely rewritten by the ahlest writer's on every
subject. Printed irOm new type, anu illustrated
with several thousand engraylngs and maps.
The work originally published under the tide OF
THE NEW AMERICAN CrCLoPlEDIA was cyinplei-
Ell in 1855 since which time the wide cir aati0n
which il has attained in all parts Of the United
States aud the signal developments which have
taken place in every branch Of SCIENCE literature.
and arl. have induced the editors and publishers
70 submit TO an exact and thorough revision and
10 issue q new edition c8iitle'i iH- AMERICAN Cf-
Within the last ten years the progress Of dis
covery in every department Of knowledge has
made a new work Of reference an Imperative
want.
The movement Of political aaairs has kept pace
with the discoveries Of science, and their fruitful
application 10 the industrial and useful arts, and
the eonFenienee ana renneinent oi social u. NE.
Great wsrs aud consequent revolutions have oe-
CURED, involving national changes OF peculiar mo
ment. The civil war Ot cur own country. which
was at its height when the last volume Ol the old
work appeared, has happily been ended. and
new course Of commercial aud industrial activity
has been commenced.
Large accessiOns TO cur geographical knowledge
have been made ly the indeiatigaBie explorers Of
Africa.
The great political revolutions Of thelastdecade,
with the natural result Of the lapse OF time, have
brought into view multitude Of new men. whose
names are in every one mouth and OF whose lives
every one is curious know the particulars Great
battles have been fought and important sicges
maintained, Of which the details are as yet pre-
served only in the newspapers or in the transient
publica, lions Of the day, but which ought now 70
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