Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-14

TIME WORK ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED
under the title of The NEW AMERICAN CY-
CLoP 4EDIA 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 70 submit it 20
an exact and thorough revision, and 70 issue .
new edition entitled The AMERICAN CYCLIC
P4EDIA.
Within the last ten years the progress OF dis
covery in every department Of knowledge has
made a new work OF reference an imperative
want.
The movement Of political affairs has keps
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 rsvo3a-
tons have occurred, involving national changes
OF peculiar moment 1he civil war or our own
country, which was at its height when the Last
volume OF the old work appeared, has happily
been ended, and n new course Of commercial
and industrial activity has been commenced
Large aceessions to our geographical knoSl-
edge have been made By the indefatigable ex-
plOrers of Africa.
The great political revolutions OF the last DO
cade, with the natural result Of the lapse Of
time, have brought into public view multitude
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 TO 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 70
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 Of this newest
inventions in the practical arts, well a. to
give 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
resources for carrying il on to successful ter
minatiOn-
None OF the original stereotype plates have
been used, but every page has been printed on
new type, forming in fact new CyelOPedis,
with the same plan and compass as its predeees-
sOr, but with far greater peeuniary expendi-
tuTe, 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 70 give
greater lucidity and force 70 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
tecture, and art, as well as the various processes
of mechanics and manufactures. Although IN
tended for instruction rather than embellish-
ment, no pains have been spared to insure their
artistic excellence; the cost Of their execution Is
enormous, and IL Is believed they will md vel
come reception as an admirable feature OF the
CyclOpedia. and worthy of is high Character
Inns work Is sold 10 SUBSCRIBERS only, pay
able on delivery of each volume It win 80
completed in sixteen large octave volumes, eaeh
containing about 500 pages, fully illustrated
with several thousand Wood Engravings, AID
with numerous eOlOred LithOgraphic Maps
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Three volumes now ready. Succeeding vol
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will be sent gratis, on application
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