Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-02-06

TIME WORK ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED
i under the title OF THE NEW AMERICAN CY-
CLOPEDIA was completed in lo63, 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 % Submit it to
an exact and thorough revision, ard % Issue a
new edition entitled The AAERICAS CYCLIC
/ PEDIA.
Within the last ten years the progress OF dis-
| eOvery in every department Of knowledge has
made a new work OF reference an Imperative
want
pace with the discoveries of science, and their
fruitful application to the Industrial and useful
arts and the convenience and refinement Of so
cial life. Great wars and consequent reyOla-
tons have occurred, involving national changes
OF peculiar moment. Tn civil war OF our own
country, which vas N its height when the last
volume of the Old work appeared, has happily
been ended, ana a new course Of commercial
and industrial activity has been commenced.
Large accessiOast 20 our geographical knOyi-
edge have been made by the in~deiatisabls ex-
plorers 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 amultituds
of new men, whose names are in every ones
mouth, and of whose lives every one il curious
70 know the particulars. Great battles have
been fought and important siegrS maintained
o. which the details are a. yet preserved only in
the newspapers or in the transient publications
place in permanent and GutheHtie history.
In preparing the present edition Tor the press
1t has accordingly been the aim Of the editors To
bring down the tOthe latest possible
dates, and to furnish an accurate account of the
most recent discoveries IN science, OF every
fresh production in literature, audOf the newest
inventions IN the practical arts. as well A. TO
give a succinct and original record Of the pro
gress Of political and historical events.
The work has been begun after long and care
full preliminary labor, and with the most ample
TeGnWTegE for CARVING IL On IN n successful ter
minatiOn.
None of the original stereotype plates have
been used, but every page has been printed on
new type, forming IN tact a new ~Cycl0paedHas
with the same plan and compass IS its predeces-
scr, but with 9 far greater Pecuuiary expend-
tlTe, and with such hmproycmeHts IN its eompy-
s5JiOn - have been suggested BY longer expert
ence and enlarged knowledge.
The Illustrations which are introduced for tho
first time in the presents edition have been added
not for the sake CT pictorial effect. but % 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 IA
nous and remarkable features o. sceHery. arch
~itecture, and art. as wei asthe various processes
Of mechanics and manufactures Although m
tended for instruction rather than embell<h-
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artistic excellence; the cost of their execution il
and il is believed they will find a well
come reception as an admirable feature OF tho
CyclOpjedia, and worthy Of its high character
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with several thousand Wood EngTayings- and
with numerous cOlOred LithOgraphic Maps.
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