The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-07-06
APPLETONS'
AMERICAN. CYtLOP ADIA
NEW REVISED EDITION.

Entirely rewritten by the ablest writers 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 complet-
ed in 1868, sine, which time the wide circulation
which 1t has attained in all parts of tho 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
a new course Of commercial and industrial activi-
| ty has been commenced
Large accessions to our geographical knowledge
have been made by the indefatigable 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 now
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 seges maintained, of which tho 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,
| it has accordingly been the aim of the editors to
bring 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 in
ventions in the practical arts, we'll as to give
a succint and original record of the progress ofpo
litical and historical events.
The work has been begun after long and care
full preliminary labor, and with the most ampl,
resources for carving it on to successful termin
alton.
Mono of the original stereotype plates hav
been used but every page has been printed oil
new type, forming in fact n new Cyclop@dia, will
the same plan and compass as its predecessor, bu
with a far greater pecuniary expenditure, an,
with ouch Improvements in its composition Il
have been suggested by longer experience and en-
larged knowledge.
The illustrations which are introduced for tn
first time in tho present edition have been adde
not for their sake Of pictorial effect, but to Civ
greater lucidity and force to the explanations i
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 mt
chanics and manufactures. Although intende
for instruction rather than establishment, n
pains have been spared to issue their artistic on
celence; the cost Of their execution is enormous
and it is believed they will find a welcome receI
ton as an admirable feature Of the Cyclop@dii
and worthy of its high character.
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