The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-07-13
APPLETONS'
AMERICAN. CYtLOPADIA.
NEW REVISED EDITION.

Entirely rewritten by the ablest writer's on every
subject. Printed from new type, and illustrat-
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The work originally published under the title
Of THE New AMERICAN CYcLoPKDIA was compet-
ed in 1868, since which time the wide circulation
which 1t 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 induced the editors and publishers
to submit 1t to an exact and thorough revision,
and to issue a new edition entitled THR AMERICAN
CYcLoPEDIA.
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 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
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
new course of commercial and industrial activi-
ty has been commenced.
Large accessions to our geographical knowledge
have been made by the ndefatgable explorers 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 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 seiges maintained, Of which the details
are as yet preserved only in the newspapers or in
transient publications Of the day but which ought
now to take their place in permanent and anthem
tic history.
In preparing the present edition for the press,
| ii has accordingly been the aim of the editors to
brine down the information to the latest possible
dates, and to furnish an accurate account Of the
post recent discoveries in SCIENCE of every fresh
production in literature, and Of the newest in
ventions in the practical arts, well as to give
succnt and original record Of the progress of po-
litica and historical events
The work has been begun after long and care
full preliminary labor, and with the most ample
resources for carving it on to a successful termin-
alton.
None of the original stereotype plates hav,
been used, but every page has been printed OIL
new type, forming in fact new Cyclopedia, with
the same plan and compass as its predecessor, bu
with far greater pecunary expenditure, ant
with such improvements in its composition a
have been suggested by longer experience and en-
larged knowledge.
The illustrations which are introduced for thu
first time in the present edition have been adde,
not for their sake of pictorial effect, but to Civ
greater lucidty and force to the explanations il
the text. They embrace all branches Of scienc
and of natural history and depict the most famou
and remarkable features of scenery, architectur
and art as well as the various processes Of me
chancs nd manufactures. Although INTENDED
for instruction rather than establishment, n
pains have been spared to issue their artistic ex
celence; the cost Of their execution is enormous
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ton as an admirable feature of the CyclOppdi0
and worthy Of its high character.