The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-03-06

The work originally published under tn e It'll
of THE NEW AMERICAN .CYCLOpKDI
was completed In 1868, since which time the wild
circulation which it has attained in all parts 9
the United States, and the signal development
which have taken place in every branch @
science, literature, and art, have induced tn
editors and publishers to submit 1t to an exac
and thorough revision, and to issue a new edition
entitled II AMERICAN CYCLIC KDIA.
Within the last ten years the progress of dis
coyery in every department of knowledge hal
made a new work of reference an imperativ'
want. .1a e-u.r a.n
The movement of political affairs has KEEP
pace with the discoveries of science, and their
fruitful application to the industrial and useful
arts and the convenience and refinement of socia
| life. Great wars and consequent revolutions
have occurred, involving national changes Of
peculiar moment. The civil war of onr OWL
| 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 accessions to our geographical knowl.
edge have been made by the indefatigable ex-
plorers of Africa. E $40 iEE .ag.raal v4n..
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 one's 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. CT. I.
In preparing the present edition for the press,
1t 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 production in literature and of the newest
inventions in the practical arts, as well as to
give q succinct and original record of the pro
gress of political and historical events.
The work has been begun after long and care
full preliminary labor, and with the most am pie
resources for carrying 1t on to q successful ter
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None of tn original stereotype plates have
been used, bat every page has has been printed
on new type, forming in fact a new C~yclopedla,
with the same plan and compass as its prede-
cessor, but with a far greater pecuniary expend-
iture, and with sunh 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 to give
greater lucidity and force to the explanations
In the text. They embrace all branches of
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 rather than
EN- bellishment, no pains have been spared to
insure their artistic excellence the cost of their
execution is enormous, and IL is believed they
will find a welcome reception as an admirable
feature of the Cyclopedia, 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 300 pages, fully illustrated with
several thousand Wood Engravings, and with
numerous colored Lithographic Mars.
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Four volumes now ready. Succeeding vol.
umes, until completion, will be issued once in
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