Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-02-05

The work originally published under the
title ofThe American Cyclop9dia was com
pleted in 1868, since which time the ,vida
circulation which it has attained in all parts n f
inc ohited States, and the signal lopments
VIII oh have taken place in every branch of
science, literature, and art have induced the
editors and publishers to submit tito an exact
and thorough revision, and to issue a new
edition entitled The Am erican Cyc.opmdIa.
Within the last ten years the progress of
discovery in every department of KNOWLEDGE
has made a new work OF reference an ;nH,
peradve want.
The movement ofpolitcal affairs has ken,
pace with the discoveries of science. and thn,
fruitful application to the industrial and seFui
arts and the convenience and refine put n
social lie. GREAT wars aud copseouent revr
lntlons have occurred, involving nationa
changes of peculiar moment. The civil war rn
our own country, which at its height when the
last volume OF the old work appeared, has
happily been ended, and new course of com
| mercial and industrial activity has been com
menced
Large accessions to our reooranbica1
kuowlnGge have been made by the indie iatioa-
BILE explorers OF Africa,
The great political revolutions of the last
decade, with the natural result of the ianse of
Tune, nave brought into public eva multi
tude Oh new men, whose names are In ever,
ones mouth and of whose lives every one il
curious to know The particulars. Great battles
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| tanned, OF which the details are as vet preserv
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| publlcatlo; OF the day, but which ought now
! to take their place in ornament and aulheu-
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In preparing the present edition for tho
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account OF the most recent discoveries in srirnce
| OF every fresh produc ton in literature, and
OF the newest inventions in practical arts as
| well as to give succinct and orioinol record
OF the progress oil politica aud historical events
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