Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1875-03-30

THE work originally published under the title Of
THE NEw AMERICAN CYcLoPeDIA was completed in
1853, since which time the wide circulation which
it has attained in ali 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-
nit it to an exact and thorough revision and t. is
new edition entitled THE AMERICAN Cyclic
PaDIA.
Within the last ten wears the progress Of diseov-
cry in every department of knowledge has made &
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 couaequent revolutions have occur
red, involving national cahnges OF peculiar moment
The civil war of country, which was at
its height when the last volume of the old work
appeared, has happily been ended, and Il new
course of commercial ard industrial activity has
been commenced.
Large accessions to our geographical knowledge
have been made by the interchangeable explorers OF
Africa.
The gr0at political voutions of the last decaae
with the national result of the lapse or time have
brought into poblic view a multitude of new mon,
whose hames in every ones mouth and Of
whose lives every ore IS caTOds to know the par
ticulars. Great battles have been fought snd inn
pOrlSnt seiges maintained, of which the datails are
as yet preserved only in the papers or In the
transient publications Of the day, but which ought
now TO take their place in permanent and anthem
tic history.
in preparing the present edition fCt Tie press,
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composition rs have been suggested by longer ex-
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