The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-03-04
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The work orisinallv pablished under III title
of THE NEW AMERICAN. .CYCLOpEDiA
was completedi in 1868, since which time tne WIDE
circulation which It 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 submiti 1t to an exact
and thorough revision, and to issue a new edition
entitled THE AMERICAN CYCLIC zelda.
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 wal of our W
country, which was at its height when the last
volume of the old work appeared, has happily
been ended, and n new course of commercial
and industrial activity has been commenced:
Large accessions to our geographical knowl.
edge have been made by the indefatfgable 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 q 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
pt1ittuCit u hci ~ - |H HA| ]
In preparing the present edition for the press,
it has accordingly been the aim Of the editors TO
bring down the to the latest posi-
BILE dates, and to furnish an accurate account OF
the most recent discoveries i'll science, of every
fresh production in literature. and ofthe newest
Inventions in the practical arts, as well as to
give a ~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 ample
resources for carrying 1t on to q successful ter
None Of tn, original stereotype plates have
been used, but every page has has been printed
on new type, forming in fact a new C~yclopRdia,
with the same plan and compass as its prede-
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.
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
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
establishment, no pains have been spared to
insure their artistic excellence; the cost OF their
execution is and it is believed they
| will find a welcome reception as an admirable
feature of the C~yclopRdia, and worthy OF its
This work is sold to Subscribers only, payable
on delivery OF edCn VOluIut. II VIII oo COhi'
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tanning about 800 pages, fully illustrated with
several thousand Wood Engravings, and with
numerous colored photographic Maps.
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