Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-04-14

The work originally published under the title Of
The New AMERICAN CYCLOPEDIA, was completed
IN 1863 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 it to exact and thorough revision and to
issue new edition entitled The AMERICAN Cf-
Within the las. ten years the progress of dscov.
cry 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 tho 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 new
course Of commercial and industrial activity has
been CONNIE need.
Large accessions to our geographical knowledge
nave been made by the interchangeable explorers of
Africa.
with the natural result Of the lapse of time, have
brought into public view q multitude of new men,
whose names nan are in every ones mouth. and OF
whose life every one Is curious to know the partc
ulars. Great battles have been fought and impOr-
tant seges maintained of which the details are
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 authentc
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 possible
most recent discoveries in science, of every
fresh production in literature, and of the newest
inventions in the practical arts, as well to give
a succnct and original record Of the progress OF
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forming in TACT q new Cycop9dia, with the same
plan and compass as its predecessor, but with
iar greater pecuniary expenditure, and with such
improvements in its composition as have been sug
gested by longer experience and enlarged kno"l'
edge.
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first time III the present edition have been added
not for the sake pictorial effect but to give great
lucdy and force to the explanations in the text
They embrace all branches OF science and of natu-
raj history, aud depict the most famous and re.
markabe features OF scenery, architecture, and art,
rs well AS the various processes of mechanics and
manufactures. Although Intended for instruction
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| they will find welcome reception as an admirable
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| character.
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| on delivery OF each volume 1t will be completed
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sand " ood Engravings, and with numerous col.
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Three volumes now ready. Succeeding volumes
| until completion, will be issued once in Two
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