Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-02-19

The work originally published under the title Of
The NBw AMERICAN CYCLoP.EDIA, was completed
IN 1863 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 publishers to
submit it an exact and thorough revision, and 10
issue new edition entitled THE AMERICAN Cf'
CLOPEDIA.
cry in every department of knowledge has made 3
| new work of reference an imperative want.
me !, hoveanen. oi potic anaias has HePs p aT1
| application to the industrial and useful arts and
the convenience ard refinement OF social life.
Great wars and consequent revolutions have &C.
Cured, involving national changes of peculiar mo-
ment. 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 accessons to our geographical knowledge
have been made by the interchangeable explorers Of
Africa.
The great political revolutions of the last decade,
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 life every one is curious to know the parte
ulars Great battles have been fought and impor.
tant sieges maintained, Of which the details are
We, preserved only in the newspapers or in the
transient publications OF the day, but which ought
now TO take their place in permanent and authentic
history.
In preparing the present edition for the press i,
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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
succincs and original record .of the progress OF
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The work mas been begun after long and careful
prelIm.na labor, and with the most ample resour
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None Of the original stereotype plates have been
nsed. oui every page has been printed new type,
forming in izcs new Cyclop9dia, with the same
plan and compass as its predecessor, but with a
far expenditure.
Improvements In Its composition as have been sug
gested BY longer experience and enlarged knowl.
edge,
Ine illustrations which are introduced for the
lrst time in the present edition have been added
not for the sake OF pictorial effect but to give great
They embrace all branches OF science and of natu-
raj history, and depict the most famous and re-
markable features OF scenery architecture and art
as well as the various processes OF mechanics and
manufactures. Although intended for instruction
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they will find q welcome reception as an admirable
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