The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-01-20
Miscellaneous.
A PPLEToNS'
AMERICAN CYCLOPEDIA
NEW REVISED EDITION.

| FrtirelvreNritten BY the ablest writer's on every
sub,ect Printed irUm new type, and illustrated
! with several thousand engrayings and maps
tn. - ,-,o,paliv published under the title Of
I TsE N.,V A ANEKlcAs CYCLoP RDIA was eompiet-
| 81 IN 1Ss since which time the wide circulation
which 1t has attained N an paass vi bIcS have
tlsn Mace in every branch Of science, literature,
! aD1 art have induced the editors anu puuLsbets
! 10 submit Ia an exact ana thOTOusa @ - :. 49,,
I % iasue new edluon ehu'iS1 BE n
= ,taih the last ten years the progress Of DIS
COY .ry in every department % AnSS ,j, .;,-
maze a new work OF reference an Imperative
The movement Of political affairs has Kept pace
with the discoveries Of science, anu theA uis.-
arFlic,tiou 10 the Industrial and useful arts anu
/ he convenienes and refinement Oi social nie.-
Great wars and consequent reNoluuohs - - ~ ~
Cured involving national changes ?. ahien
lnent The civil war OF our own country, Hlen
Was At is height when the last volume o. the 1u
work appeared, has happily been ehuSu' i-S. anu .
new course Of commercial and lndastrial aeu''!
T sccessios TO our geographical knowledge
I have heen made by the indefalgabie explorers u
Africa. ,.--s ,horast Ae.ada
with M natural result Of the lapse OF time, nave
brought into view nullitule u NV % .nns 49, ii
names are in every one mouth, and OF whose nVes
every one is curious 10 know the sis
battles have been fought and Important sieses ~
maintained Of which the details are as yet Pre-
served only in the newspapers or N tle ~ unsses @ "
uublica ions OF the day, but "hich Ous ~ ~ -
NO tbeir Mace in permanent and aulhenile MS
Ia preparing the present edition for the pFess. !
has accordingly been the aim OF the edIlvtS ~ Is
down the information 10 The iatest pvsSl.'s -. -
ana 10 furnish an accurate account VI the hOst re
cent discoveries in science. OF every Iesn
ton in literature and OF the newest lhssneiyns "a
the practical arts, as Wel az 70 li.js ana his
original record OF the progress Of Pol''eai anu N'
turi.al events. -, p,
preliminary labor, and Win lne ~ ,I,ai,
sources for carrying IL on 10 suecessHl WI li'i-
None Of the original stereotype plates have oeen
used, but every page has oeen PlataeI jb ~, H.
type forming In fact a new Cyclopsdla, viii & w
same plan and compass as its predeeessoI' uut
with FAR greater peeuniary expehl.leuIei an an
with such Improvements IN KS e1hlposlelvn if -
been suggested by longer experience anu ehiArsed
knowledge. go -
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first time IN the present EDITION nav 49, ~
not Tor the sakeo pictorial effect but 70 slNe y.
cidity and force 10 the expianaliohr u VIC 1
They embrace all branches Of science anu % ~ -
raj history, and depict the most I1lnoas I- "a
markable features Of scenery, aFchitee'ute asi1
art as well as the various processes OF
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struction rather than em0eilishment, ~ palnIs pan
have been spared to insure their arustlc eAcel,
lence: the cost Of their execution Is enormous aA
il is believed they will md welcome RECEPTION as
an admirable feature OF the Cyclope1ia, ana Nof-
thy OF its high character.
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thousand Wood Engravings, and with numerous
cClOred Lithcgraphic Maps.
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