Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-18

/ TTHE WORK ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED
/ Il under the title Of THE NEW AMERICAN C1-
/ CLOP4B DIA was completed in 1868, since which
/ time the wide circulation which il 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 in
duced the editors and publishers 10 submit is 20
| an exact and thorough revision, and 70 issue a
new edition entitled The AMERICAN CYCLIC
| P1EDIA-
/ Within the last ten wears the procress of dis
/ cOvery in every department Of knowledge has
made new work Of reference an imperative
/ want
The movement Of political affairs has kept
| pace with the discoveries Of science, and their
fruitful application 70 the industrial and useful
l arts and the convenience and refinement Of 80
1 cial life Great wars and consequent revolu-
/ lions have occurred, involving national changes
/ of peculiar moment. The civil OF our own
| 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 aceessiOas to our geographical knOwl-
/ edge have been made by the indefatigable ex-
/ pl0rers 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 multitude
| Of new men, whose names are in every ones
mouth, and of whose lives every one IL curious
| to know the particulars. Great battles have
been fought and important siegeS maintained,
OF which the details are vet preserved only in
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place in permanent and authentic history.
In preparing the present edition for the press,
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fresh production in literature, and of the newest
inventions in the practical arts, as well as to
give a succinct and original record of the pro-
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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
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and Of natural history, and depict the most IA
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itecture, and art. well as the various processes
OF mechanics and manufactures. Although in
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CyclOpRdia, and worthy of its high character.
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containing about 800 pages, fully illustrated
with several thousand Wood Engravings, and
with numerous cOlOred LithOgraphie Maps.
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