The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-10-30
CYCLOPMDHA.

CYCLOPEDAA.
NETV VISED EDITION.
ENTIRELY REWRITTEN BY THE ABLESr
WRITER'S ON KyERY SUBJECT.
Printed from New Type, and Illustrat
cd with several thousand Eli
cravings and Maps.
THE work originally published undor
the title of tho New American Cyclop
dla was commenced in Is 8, since viii III
time tho wide circulation which it ha !
attained in all parts of tho United Stntes,
have t. ken place in every branch Of sol
encc, literature, and art, have induced
tho editors and publishers to submit it to
m exact and thorough revision, and to
issue new edition, ehtitlod
THE AMERICAN CYCLOPEDIA.
Within tho last twenty years tho pro-
gress OF discovery in every departmen ent OF
knowledge hns made a new work OF, rof.
ercnce an imperative want.
The movement of political affairs has
kept pnce with the discoveries of science,
and their fruitful application to tho in
dustriul and useful arts and the convcn-
iencc and refinement of social life. Grcnt
wars and consequent revolutions have
occurred, involving national changes of
peculiar moment. The civil war of our
own country, which was Mt it's height
when tho iaat volume of tho old work
appeared, has happily becn ended, and
new course of commercial and industrial
activity has been commeucetI
Largo accessions to our GeoRraphical
knowledge have been made.
The great political revolutions of tho last
decade, with tho natural result of tho
lapse Of time, have brought into spublic
view II multitude of new men, whose
names nre i'll every ono's mouth, and of
whose lives every one is curious to know
tho particulars. Great battles have been
fought and important sie.,es maintained,
of which the details are as yet preserved
only i'll tho newspapers or in tho tran
sieTt publications of tho day, but which
ought now to
Take their place in Permanent and
Authentic History.
In preparing the present edition for tho
press, it has accordingly been the aim of
the editors to bring down tho informn-
ton to tic lntest possible dates, and Fto
furnish an nccurnCto account Of the most
recent discoveries in science, Of every
fresh production in literature, and of tn,
noweSt inventions in tho practical arts
rs we'll rs to givo succint pnd original
Record Of the Progress Of Political and
Historical Events.
The work was begun after long and
careful preliminary labor, and with tho
most ample resources for carrying it on
to q successful termination.
None of the original stereotype plates
have been used, but
Every Page has boen Printed on New
Type,
forming, in fact new Cyclopmdia, with
tho same plan and compass as it's prele-
ccssor, but with q far greater pecuniary
expenditure, and with improvements in
its composition as have been suggested
by longer experience and enlarged
knowledge.
Tho Illustrations which ere introduced
for the nrst time
in the present edition, have been added
not for tho sake of pictori Il effect, but to
give greater lucidity md force tc tho cx-
PLANTATION in tho text. They embrace all
branches Hf science and Of nnturnl history,
and depict the most famous and remark
able features ofscenery. architecture, and
art, aS well as the various PROCESSES of
mechanics and manufactures. Although
intended for instruction rathan than en-
bellishment, 49,.
No Pains have been spared to insure
their Artistic Excellence.
Tho cost of their execution is enor-
nous, and it is believed they will find
welcome reception as an admirable tca-
ture Of the Cyclopptiia. and worthy ofits
high character.
THE AMERICAN CYcLopEDIA is now COM
plete in sixteen large octave volumes,
each volume containing over oight hun.
drcd pages, fully illustrated with several
thousand Wood Engravinss, and with
numerous Colorod Lithographic Maps,
tho whole costing tho publishers a sum
exceeding five hundred thousand dollars,
exclusive of paper, printing and binding.
PRICE AND STYI ,E OF BINDIhIa