The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-03-21

The work originally published under tte title
| of THE NEW AMERICAN CYCLOPEDIA
was completed in 1868, since which time the wide
circulation which 1t 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 induced the
! editors and publishers to submit 1t to an exact
| and thorough revision and to issue new edition
| entitled THE AMERICAN ENCYCLOPEDIA.
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 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 wars and consequent revolutions
| have occurred, involving national changes OF
peculiar moment. 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 a new course of commercial
| and industrial activity has been commenced.
Large accessons to our geographical knowl'
edge have been made by the indefatieable ex-
plorers 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 a 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 news
papers 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,
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 i'll science. of every
fresh production.n literature. and of the newest
| inventions in the practical arts, as well as to
give O succinct and original record of the pro-
| gress of political and historical events.
The work has been begun after long and care
| ful preliminary labor, and with the most ample
| resources for carrying it on to successful ter
mnation
None Of tn, original stereotype plates have
| been used, bat every page has has been printed
on new type, forming in fact a new CyclopRdia,
with the same plan ind compass as its predee-
cessor, but with a far greater pecuniary expend-
| iture, and with su"h improvements in its COM
position as have been suggested by longer expe-
rience 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 70 give
greater lucidity and force to the explanations
| In the text. They embrace all branches or
science and of natural history, and depict the
| most famous and remarkable features OF scene
ry, architecture and art, as well as the various
processes of mechanics and manufactures.
Although intended for instruction rath Or than
establishment, no pains have been spared TO
insure their artistic excellence; the cost of their
execution is enormous, and 1t is believed they
will find O welcome reception as an admirable
| feature of the Cyclopndia; and worthy OF its
high character.
This work is sold to Subscribers only, payable
| on delivery of each volume. 1t will be COM
pleted in sixteen large octave volumes, each con-
| tanning about 800 pages, fully illustrated with
several thousand Wood Engravlngs, and with
numerous colored photographic Maps.
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