San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-06-15
AMERICAN CYCLOPEDIA.

| Within the last ten years the progress OF dis
covery in every department Of knowledge ha
made new work Of re!ereuce an imperative
| want.
The movement Of political affairs has kept pace
wit the discoveries Of science, and their fruitful
application TO the industrial and useful arts ant
the convenience and refinement Of social life
| Great wars and consequent revolutions have oc.
| CURED, 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 accessions
| to our
GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE
have been made by the indefatgabe explorers In
Africa.
The great political revolutions of the last de-
cade with the natural result of the lapse OF time,
have brought into public view multitude OF rev
men, whose names are In every ones mouth, and
of whose lives every one is curious to know the
particulars. Great battles have been fought and
important sieges maintained, of which the de-
tails are MS yet preserved only in the newspapers
or in the transient publications of the day, but
which ought now to take their place in
PERMANENT AND AUTHENTIC HISTORY.
In preparing the present edition for the press,
it has accordingly been tie aim Of the editors to
bring down the information to the latest possible
dates, and to furnish an accurate account Of the
most recent discoveries in science, of every fresh
production in literature, and of the newest in
vertious in the practical arts, as well as to give
succnct and original record of the progress Of
POLITICAL AND HISTORICAL EVENTS.
The work was begun after long and careful pro-
liminary labor, and with the most ample resources
for carrying it on to q successful termination.
None of the original stereotype plates have
been used, but every page has been
PRINTED ON NEW TYPE,
forming, in fact, q new Cycopedia. with the same
plan and compass as its predecessor, but with
lar greater pecuniary expenditure, and with such
improvements in its composition as have been
THE ILLUSTRATIONS,
which are introduced for the first time in the pres
ent edition, have been added not for the sake Of
pictorial effect, but TO give greater lucidity and
force to the explanations in the text. They en-
brace all branches of science and Of natural his
tory, and depict the most famous and remarkable
features of scenery. architecture, and art, as well
rs the various processes OF mechanics and manu-
lectures. Although intended for instruction rath-
er than establishment, no pains have been spared
10 ensure their
ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE.
The cost OF their execution is enormous, and It is
believed they will find welcome reception as an
admirable feature Of the Cyclopadia, and worthy
II its high character.
The AMERICAN CYCLOPEDIA IS NOW COM
PLETE,
n sixteen large octave volumes, each volume con-
aiming 500 pages, fully illustrated with seve-
al thousand Wood Engravings, and numerous
;olored photographic Maps, the whole costing the |
publishers a sum exceeding
FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS,
of paper, printing and binding.