Connecticut western news., 1876-09-08
APPLETON'S American Cyc|op@dia.
NEW REVISED EDITION

NEW REVISED EDITION. ENTIRELY REWRITTEN BY THE ABLEST
 WRITER'S ON EVERY SUBJECT. Printed from Ne,o Type, and Illustrated eoih
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 The work originally published under tho title of THE NEW AMERICAN CYCLoPED1A was completed in 1863, since which time the wide circulation which it has attained in all parts of the United States, and the signal developments which have taken place ill every branch of science, literature and art, have induced the editors and publishers to submit it to an exact and thorough revision, and to issue new edi- tloD, entitled the
 The American Cyciopadia.
 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 place with the discoveries of science and their fruitful application to the industrial and useful arts and the convenience and refino- ment of social life Great wars and coDse- Quent revolutions have occurred, involving national changes of peculiar moment. The civil war of our own country, which WAS at it's 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 accessions to our
 BIOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE Have been made by the ind efatigable explol CTS of Africa. Tho great political revo.utlous of the last decade, with the natural result of the lapse of time, have brought into public view $ multitude of new men, whose names are ill every ones mouth, and of whose lives every one is anxious to know the particulars. Great battles have been fought and important sieges maintained, of which the details are as yet preserved only in the newspapers or ill the transient publications of the day, but which ought now to take their place ill
 Permanent and Authentic History.
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