Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-04-15

The work originally published under the title Of
The NEW AMERICAN CYCLorEDIA was completed
| IN 1893 since which time the wide circulation which
1t has attained in all parts of the United States,
| and the signal Developments which have taken
| art, have induced the editors and publishers TO
submit 1t to an exact and thorough revision, and to
issue new edition entitled The AMERICAN CY-
CLOP.EDlA.
Within the last ten years the progress of discov-
cry in every department Of knowledge has made a
| new WORK OF reference AN imperative want.
The movement of political affairs has Kept pace
with the discoveries OF science and their fruitful
application to the industrial and useful arts and
| the convenience and refinement OF social life.
| Great wars and consequent revolutions have oc.
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 new
course OF commercial aud industrial activity has
been commenced.
Large accessions to our geographical know ledge
nave been made by the interchangeable explorers uf
| Africa.
The great pol teal revolutions ofthe last decade
with the natural result Of the lapse OF time have
brought into public view Il multitude OF new mon,
whose names are IN every ones mouth, and of
whose life every is curious to know the partic
ulars. Great battles have been fought and mpor-
tant sieges maintained of which the details are as
yet preserved only In the newspapers or in the
transient publications OF the day, but which ough.
now to take their place IN permanent and authentic
history.
IN preparing the present edition for the press, it
has accordingly been the aim OF the editors TO
pring down the information to the latest possible
dates and to furnish accurate account of the
| most recent discoveries in science, OF every
fresh production in literature and of the newest
inventions in the practical arts, well to give
succinct and original record of the progress OF
| political and historical events.
The work mas been begun after long and careful
preliminary labor, and with the NEST ample rcsour
ces for carrying it on to successful termination.
None of the original stereotype plates have been
used, but every page has been printed on type
forming in fact Il new CyclopGdia, with the same
plan and compass AS its predecessor, but with u
far greater pecunary expenditure, and with such
Improvements in its composition as have been sug
gested by longer experience and enlarged kuowl-
edge.
The illustrations which are introduced for the
first time in the present edition have been added
not for the sake OF pictorial effect but to give great
er iucldty and force to The explanations in the text
They embrace all branches OF science and of natu-
raj history, aud depict the most famous and re-
markable features OF scenery, architecture, and art
as wcil the various processes of mechanics and
manufactures. Although intended Tor instruction
rather than cmbclishinent, no pains have been
spared to insure their artistic cAccllence the cost
OF their execution Is enormous, and it is believed
they Will lind welcome reception an admirable
feature OF the Cyciop.eda and worthy of its high
This work is sold to Subscribers ouly, payable
| on delivery OF each volume. IL will be completed
about 500 pages fully illustrated with .ral thou
! sand Wood Engravings, and with numerous col.
| ored Lithosraphic Maps.
rRICE AND STYLE OF R>prNG.
| In extra Cloth, per VOL, 500
| In Library Leather, per VOL, GV0
! In Half Turkey Morocco, per vol, 100
l IN HAN Russlt, extra gut, per VOL, 500
In Full Morocco, antique, gilt edges, per vol, 1000
| In Full Russia, per vol, 1900
Three volumes now ready. Succeeding volumes,
| until completion, will be issued once in two
| months.
t%fSpeclmcn pages of the AMERICAN CYCLorE-
Ola, showing type, Illustrations, ETC., will be sent
gratis, on application.
FIRST CLASS CANvAssISa AGENTS WANTED.
| Address the publishers,
-, APPLETON & CO.,
sac & 65l Broadway, N. Y.
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