Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-06-02

THE wor! originally published under the title Of
The NEw AMERICAN LYrLsP;rpIA wts completed in
lsG3, since which time the wide circulation which
t has attained ii nil parts OF the United States,
and the signal developments which have taken
place in every branch 81 science, literature. and AIT
have induced the editors aud publish hers t0 sub
nit ii to exact and thorOush revision and to i
she II new edition entitled IHE ANgkICAN CY,Lo-
PTDIA.
Within the last ten wears the progress of discov-
cry in every department of know lsdg. has made u
new work Of rcfereuc" Su imperative want.
The movement Of political AFFAIR." has kept pace
with III: diScoy cries OF science aud their fruitful
application to tho industrial and useful arts aud
the convenience and refinement Of social life
Great wars and consequent revolutions have occur
red involving national cilhngrS of peculiar moment.
The civil war of country, which was al
Its height when the last volume of the old work
appeared, has happily been ended, aud new
course of commercial and industrial ACTIVITY has
been commenced.
Large ace ssiors 10 our geographical knowle
have been made by he indela,ig able explorers Of
Africa.
The great political re, outinns Of the lat lrca Q
with tue national result at the lapse of time hav
brought into poblic view multitude OF new mon,
whose names are IN e;ery ones month, ard Of
whose lives every ore j. curious to know the par
ticularS. Great battles have been fought and i'm
pOrtant seigts manans d, of which the datails are
yet preserved only ia the new papers or la the
transient publications Of the day, but which oug nj
now To take their place lit permanent and scthcn-
tic history.
In preparing the present edition -foi tie press,
il has accordingly been tine aim of tir Cdit'
bring down the Information To the latest possible
dates, and to furnish accurate account OF the
most recent discoveries in scrnce of every fresh
production in literature, and cf the newest ihveH
jinns in the practical arts well - To give
cnct and original record OF the prOaFcsH Of political
and historical events
The work has been begin after long ard careful
preliminary labor, and with the NEST ample rrsour
ces for carrying it on to a successful termination
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diture. and with such improvements in It's cumpo-
siion as have been suggested by longer experience
and enlarged know ledge.
The Illustrations which are introduced for the
first time in the present edition have been added
not fer the sake of pictorial effect, but To give
greater lucidItv aud To the explanation n the
text. They embrace all branches sf -ejrBro AID
of natE r; history, and depict The ro>t f4mo-fs and
remarkable features "f scenery architecture, and
art, well a. the various processes and mechan-
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