Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1875-03-23

THE work originally published under the title Of
TIE NEW AMERICAN CYCLOPHDIA was completed I'm
1903, since which time the wide circulation which
1t has attained III 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 sub
init il TO exact and thorough revision, and t. IS
edition entitled ITE AMERICAN CYCLIC
PeDIA.
Within the last ten wears the progress of diseov-
cry in every department of knowled ge has made a
work of reference an imperative want
The ovement of political Affairs has kept pace
with the discoveries Of science, and their fruitful
application to the industrial and useful ar:s and
the convenience and refinement % social life
Great war. and consequent revolutions have occur.
red involving national cahnges of peculiar moment
The civil war OF own country, which was At
is height when the last volume of the old work
appeared, has happily been ended, aud a new
course of commercial and Industrial activity has
been commenced.
Large accessions to our geographical knowledge
have been made by the indefatigable explorers Of
Africa.
The great political rev olutions OF the last decace
With the national result of the lapse OF time have
brought into poblie view multitude of new men
whose names in every ene's mouth and Of
whose lives every ore is curious to know the par.
ticulars. Great battles have been fought and i'm
poraut seiges maintained, Of which the dstails are
AZ yet preserved only in the newspapers or In the
transient publications Of the day, but which ought
now 10 take their place in permanent and authen-
tic history.
IN preparing the present edition for the press,
II has accordingly been the aim Of the editors to
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production in literature and II the newest inven-
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