The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-02-19
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AMERICAN CYCLOPEDIA.
ENTIRELY REWRITTEN BY THE ATTEST
WRITERS ON EVERY SUBJECT.
PRINTED FROM NEW TYPE,
AND ILLUSTRATED WITH
SEVERAL THOUSAND F.i-4sF
EN9RAVINGS
AND MAPS
NEW REVISED EDITION.

The work originally published under tn title
If THE NEW AMERICAN CYCLOt.EDlA
was completed in 1868, 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 pub ishers to submit 1t to an exact
and thorough revision, and 70 issue new edition
entitled THE AMERICAN CYCLIC EDIA.
Within the last ten years the progress of dis
covery in every department OF knowledge mas
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 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 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 course of commercial
and industrial activity has been commenced
Large accessions to our geographical knowl.
edge have been made by the indefatigable ex-
plorers of Africa.
The great political revolutions of the last de-
cade, with the natural result OF the lapse Ut time
have brought into public view a 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 main tanned, 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
permanent and authentic history.
In p eparing the present edition for the press,
1t has accordingly been the aim of the editors to
bring down the Information TO the latest posi-
BILE dates, and to furnish an accurate account OF
the most recent discoveries in science. of every
fresh production In literature and of the newest
inventions in the practical arts, as well as to
give q sucoinct and original record of the pro-
gress of political and historical events.
= he work has been begun after long and care
full preliminary labor, End with the most pie
ras successful
mination.
None Of tn, original stereotype plates have
been used, but every page has has been printed
on new type, forming in fact a new Cyclopedla,
with the same plan and compass as its prede-
cessor, but with a Tar greater pecuniary expend-
ture and with sunh improvements in its COM
position as have been suggested by longer expe'
rience and ENLARGED knowledge.
The illustrations which are introduced for the
frst time in the present edition have been added
not for the sake of pictorial effect, but to give
in the text. They embrace all branches oil
science and of natural history, and depict the
most famous and remarkable features OF scene
ry, architecture, and art, as well as the various
Although intended for instruction rather than
EN- bells hment, no pains have been spared to
insure their artistic excellence; the cost of their
execution is enormous, and 1t is believed they
will find welcome reception as an admirable
feature of the CyclopRdia, and worthy OF Its
high character.
This work is sold to Subscribers only, payable
on delivery of each volume. 1t will be COM
pleted in sixteen large octave volumes, each con-
tanning about 300 pages, fully illustrated with
several thousand Wood Engravings, and with
numerous colored Lithographic Maps.
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In Full Russia, per vol. 40 W
-Four volumes now ready Succeeding vol
umes, until completion, will be issued once In
two months.
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