Wilmington journal., 1875-07-23
NEWSPAPERS DIRECTORY
APPLErTONSo
AMERICAN CYCL0PEDiA.
New Revised Edition


Entirely rewritten by the ablest writer's on
every subject. Printed from new type, and
illustrated with Several Thousand Engra-
wings and Maps.
THE work originally published under the til
tie of THE NEW AMERICAN CYCLOPE E-
OLA was completed in 1864, since which time
the wide circulation which it has attained in all
parts of the United States, and the signal de-
velopments which have taken place in every
branch Of science, literature, and art, have in
duced the editors and publishers to submit it to
an exact and thorough Teylsion; ana q TO issue %
CLOPEDIA.
Within the last ten years the progress of dis
covery 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 use
ful arts and the convenience and refinement of
social life. Great wars and consequent revolu-
tions have occurred. 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 activity has been commenced.
Large accessioEs to our geographical know
ledge nave been made by the indefatigable ex-
plOrers of frica.
The great political revolutions of the last de-
cade, with the natural result of the lalse of
time, have brought into public view a multi
tude of new men, who>e names are in every
ones mouth. and of whose lives every one is
curious to know the particulars .Ir. at battles
have been fought and important sieges main
tanned, OF which the details ale as vet preserved
only in the newspapers or in the transient pub
ncatlons OF the day, but which ought now to
= their place in perm m-nent and suthentic
history.
/, ep4ring the present edition for the
press, 1t has accordingly been the aim of the
editors to bring down the intOrmatio, the
latest possible dates, and to furnish accu-
rate account of the most recent discoveries in
science. OF every fresh pI oduction in literature
and of the newest inventions in the practical
arts, as well as to give a succint ana original
record OF the progress of political and hIstori-
cal events.
rhe work has been begun after long and
careful preliminary labor, and with the most
ample resources for carrying it on to success
fuI ter min alton.
None of the original stereotype plates have
been used, but every page mas been printed on
new type, forming in fact new Cyclopedia,
with the same plan and compass its prede-
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 enlarged knowledge.
The illustrations which are introduced for the
nrst time in the present edition have been ad-
ded not for the sake of pictorial effect, but to
give greater lucidity and force to the explana-
tions in the text. They embrace all branches
OF science and OF natural history, and depict the
most famous and remarkable features ofscene-
ry, architecture and art, 8 well as the various
though intended for instruction rather than
establishment, no pains have beer spared to
insure their artistic excellence the cost of
their execution ia enormous, and it is believed
they will find a welcome reception as an ad-
mirable feature of the Cyclopadia, and worthy
Of its high character.
This work is sold to Subscribers only paya-
BILE on delivery of each volume. 1t will be com
pleted in sixteen large octave volumes. each
contaieing about 800 pages fully illustrated with
several thousand Wood Engravings. and with
numerous colored LithOgraphic Maps.
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