Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-11

TIME WORK ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED
under the title OF The NEW AMERICAN CY-
CLOP1RDIA was completed in 1868, 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 TO submit 10 to
an exact and thorough revision, and 70 issue q
new edition entitled THE AMERICAN CYCLIC
P1EDIA.
Within the last ten years the progress OF dis
cOvery in every department of knowledge has
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 10 the industrial and useful
arts and the convenience and refinement Of
cial life. Great wars and consequent reyolu-
| tons 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 know!-
edge have been made by the interchangeable 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 amultitude
| 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 maintained,
of which the details are as yet preserved only in
the newspapers or in the transient publications
of the day, but which ought now 70 take their
place in permanent and authentic history
In preparing the present edition for the press,
il has accordingly been the aim Of the editors TO
bring down the Information TO the latest possible
dates, and to furnish an accurate account of the
most recent discoveries IN science, OF every
fresh production in literature, and a the newest
| inventions in the practical arts, as well as e
| give a succinct and original record OF the pro-
| gress of political and historical events.
i The work has been begun after long and care
4 full preliminary labor, and with the most ample
resources for carrying 1t on TO successful ter
None of the original stereotype plates have
been used, but every page has been printed on
| new type, forming in fact new CyclOPedia,
with the same plan and compass as its predeces-
sOr, but with far greater pecuniary exPendi-
ture, and with such improvements IN its comPo-
sitiOn as have been suggested by longer expert
ence and enlarged knowledge.
The illustrations which are introduced for the
first time in the present edition have been added
not for the sake of pictorial effect, but 10 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 Of scenery, arch
itecture, and art as well as the various processes
of mechanics and manufactures. Although in
tended for instruction rather than embelllsh-
ment no pains have been spared to insure their
artistic excellence; the cost Of their execution Is
enormous, and IL Is believed they VIII ma wei
come reception as an admirable feature OF the
CyclOpadia, and worthy Of its high character.
This work is sold to subscribers only, pay
able on delivery of each volume It VIII Dc
completed in sixteen large octave volumes, each
containing about 500 pages, fully illustrated
with several thousand Wood Engravlags, and
with numerous cOlOred photographic Maps
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Three volumes now ready. Succeeding vol
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