Wilmington journal., 1875-08-20

THE work originally published under the til
tie of THE NEW AMERICAN CYCLOP E-
Ola was completed in 1864, since which time
the wide circulation which it has attained in all
parts OF the United StateF, and the signal de-
velopments which have taken place in every
branch or science, literature, and art, have in
duced the editors and publishers to submit it to
an exact and thorough vision, and to issue
new edition entitls THE MEXICAN CY-
CLOPEDIA.
Within the last ten years the progress of dis.
covery in every department of knowledge has
made new work OF reference an i'm peratiVe
want.
The movement of political affairs has kept
pace with the discoveries of science, and their
fruitful application lc the industrial and use
fnl arts and the convenience and refinement of
social life. Great wars and consequent revolu-
tons nave occurred. involving national changes
OF peculiar moment. The civil war OF our
con ntry, 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 activity has been commenced.
Large accesslons to our geographical kn"Wi-
ledge have been made by the indefatigableex-
pIOrers of Africa.
The great political revolutions of the last de-
cade, with the natural result of the lapse of
tune, have brought into public view multi
tude of new men, whose names are in eyery
ones mouth, and of whose lives every one is
curious to know the particulars. tfreat battles
have been fought and important sieges main
tanned, of which the details are yet preserved
only In the newspapers or in the transient pub
LEGATIONS OF the day, but which ought nov to
take their place in permanent and authentic
history.
preparing the present edition for gthe
press, it has accordingly been the aim CT the
editors to bring down the Information to the
latest possible dates, and to furnish An accu-
rate account of the most recent discoveries in
science of every fresh production in literature,
and of the newest inventions in the practical
arts, as well as to give succint and original
cal events.
| rhe work has been begun after long and
| careful preliminary labor, and with the most
ample resources for carrying it on to a success
| fuI termination.
None of the original stereotype plates have
| been used, but every page has been printed ou
| new type, forming in fact new Oyclopadia,
| cessor, but with far greater pecuniary expen-
diture, and with such Improvement in its COM
position as have been suggested by longer eX
! perience and enlargedk nowledge.
| The illustrations which are introduced for the
| first time in the present edition have been ad-
| ded not for the sake OF pictorial effect but to
| give greater lucittv and force to the explana-
| uons in the text. They embrace all branches
OF science and of natural history. and depict the
| most famous and remarkable features ofscene-
~, architecture, and art, well as the various
| processes of mechanics and manufactures. Al
| though intended for instruction rather than
| embei- lshment, no pains have beer spared to
insur . their artistic excellence; the cost of
| their execution Is enormous, and it is believed
| will find welcome reception as an ad-
mirable feature of the CycIopsedia, and worthy
| of its high character.
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several thousand Wood Engrav1ngs, and with
| numerous colored Ltthographic Maps
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