Omaha daily bee., 1874-07-14

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TuK work originally published under the title
~ rur NEW AMERICAN C~YcLoPAED1A WAS
completed in 1858, since which time the wide
circrlatiou which IL has attained IN all parts oil
the United States, and the signal Developments
which have taken place In every prancn Oh
ecience. literature, and art, have injured the
editors and Publishers TO submit IL 70 an exsct
and thorough revision, and to Issue . ps~
dition entitled, The AMERICAN CrcLoPAA-
Ola.
coyery In every department OF know ledge has
made q new work of reference an imperative
TIE movement of political Affairs has kept
pacs with the discoveries of science, and their
truitfrl application to the industrial and ussiui
arts and the convenience and refinement or
socir life. Great wars and consequent revoiu-
tions nave occurred, Involving national changes
of peculiar moment Thu 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 q new conrse oil commercial
and industrial activity has been commenced.
Large sccessions to our geographical know
edee have been male byths indefatigAbie ex-
SSe great political revolutions Of the last
Sacade. with the natural result OF the lapss Of
time. have brought into public view amultitude
Of new men, whose names are IN every oee's
mouth, and of whose lives every one Is curious
10 know the particulars Great battles have
heeu fought and important sieees maintained,
of which the details are as yet preserved only
in the newspapers or in the trnnsient pubfsca-
lions of the day, bu; which ought now 70 take
their place in permanent and authentic history
In prepariIS the present edition for the press,
has accordingly Teen the aim of the editors TO
hiring down the information 70 the lasaBt pos
jble dates, and TO furnish an accnraee account
Il the most recent discoveries In science, Of
eyery fresh production in literature, and Of
the neEest In -ention In the practical arts, q
yell ~ 70 give a s~uccinct and original record OF
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The work has been begun after long and care
ful preliminary labor, and with the most ample
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Termination.
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