The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-03-20


The work originally published under Ii title
of THE NEW AMERICAN ENCYCLOPEDIA
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 publishers TO submit IL TO an exact
and thorough revision, and to issue new edition
entitled THE AMERICAN CfClOrEDlA:
Within the last ten years the progress OF dis
covery in every department of knowledge has
made new work of reference an imperative
want. -.
mace with the discoveries of science, and their
fruitful application to the industrial ana useini
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, mas happlly
been ended and a new course OF commercial
and industrial activity has been commenced
Large accessions to our geographical knowl-
edge have been made by the indefatieabie ex-
The great political revolutions of the last de.
cade with the natural result of the lapse OF time
have brought into public view muitituoe OF
new men, whose names are in every ones mouth,
and of whose lives every one is curious 10 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
permanent and authentic history.
| In preparing the present edition Tor the press
| 1t has accordingly been the aim of the editors 10
| bring down the Information TO the latest posi-
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the most recent discoveries i'll science. OF every
fresh production In literature, and of the newest
inventions In the practical arts, as well as 10
| give succinct and original record of the pro-
gress of political and historical events. ooro.
The work has been begun after long and care
| full preliminary labor, and with the most ample
resources for carrying it on to successfui Ter
None of tn, original stereotype plates have
| been used, bat every page has has been printed
| on new type, forming in fact a new Cyclopeoia'
with the same plan ind compass as It's preoe
cessor, but with far greater pecuniary expenu-
| iture, and with su"h improvements in It's com
| position as have been suggested by longer expe-
| rience and enlarged knowledge.
The Illustrations which are introduced Ter 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 the text. They embrace all branches OF
| 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 ana manu- anu, ac'u ,bem
| embellishment, no pains have been spared 70
insure their artistic excellence; the cost OF their
execution is enormous ana IL is oeieven
| feature of the Oyclop9dia, ana worthy OF hs
high character.
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| several thousand Wood Engravngs, ana win
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