The news and herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1876-1881, 1879-07-02
APPLEIUNS' AMERICAN
GYGH1dSEsNGHDH
NEW REFUSED EDITION.
ENTIRELY REWRITTEN BY TILL: ABLEST
WRITER'S ON EVERY SUBJECT
Printed from New Type, and I1lustrat.
ed with several thousand En-
cravings and Maps.

The wor!: originally published under
tho title of the New American Cyclop,u.
dia was commenced in Is 8, since whicl,
time tie wide circulation which it has
attained in oil parts of the United States,
and the signal developments which
hnve t'kcn pla:c in every branch OF sci.
cnce, literature, and art, have induced
an exact and thorough revision, and to
issue new edition, cltitlel
THE AMERICAN CYCLOPEDIA
Within tho last twenty years tho pro,
grcss Of discovery in every department OF
knowledge has male Il new work of ref
ercncc an imperative want.
The movement of political affairs has
kept pace with the discoveries of science,
dustrial and useful arts and the convcn
icnco and refinement of social life. Great
wars and consequent revolutions have
occurred, involving national changes OF
pecnlinr moment. The civil wnr Of oUl
own country, which was ut its hcigh t
when tie iant volume Of the old M0rl,
appeared, has happily been ended, and Il
new course Of comm crcial and industrial
activity has boen commenced.
Large accesstons to our Geographical
knowledge have been made.
The great political revolutions of the last
decade. with tho natural result of the
lapse Of time. have brought into public
view u multitude of new 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 sieses maintained,
Of which the details arc as yet preserved
only in tho newspapers or in tho tran
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ought now to
Take their place In Permanent and
Authentic History.
In preparing the pres sent edition for thu
press, it has accordingly bcen the aim of
tho editors to bring down the informa-
ton to the latest possible dates, and to
furnish nh accuracte account of tho most
recent discoveries in science. Of every
fresh production in literature, md Of the
newest inventions in tho practical arts.
rs we'll as to give n suacint and original
Record of tho Progress Of Political and
Historical Events.
The work was begun after long and
careful preliminary labor, and with the
most ample resources for carrying it on
to II successful termination.
None of the original stereotype plates
have been usel but
Every Page has baen Printed Oh New
Type,
forming, in fact new Cyclopmdia, with
the Samo plan and compa IS rs its pre,lc-
ccssor, but with n far greater pecnniary
expenditure, and with improvements in
lis composition rs hnvc been suggeste d
by longer experience and enlarged
knowledge.
The illustrations which arc intoduoad
for the first tlmo
in the present edition, hive been added
not for tho sake Of pictori,l effect, but to
give greater lucidity and force to the OK.
PLANTATION in tho text. They mbraco ali
branches IF science and Of fnatural history,
and depict tho most famous md remark
nblo features of ofsccncry. architecture. and
nrt, rs we'll rs the vmi0uS processes o
mechanics md manufactures. Although
intandnd .fnr instfwetion rathnn than Gin
bcllishmcnt,
No Pains hate beeh spared to insure
their Artistic Excellence.
The cost of their execution is enor-
nous, and it is believed they will find q
welcome reception ns m admirable fen
ture OF the CyclopW'!ia, and worthy ofits
high ohurncter.
| ! lie AMERICAN CYoLoP.EDIA is now COM
plete In sixteen largo octave volumes,
each volume containing over eight hun
dred pages. fully illustrated with several
thousand Wood Engravi,gs, and with
numerous Colorcd Lithographic Maps,
tue whole costing tho publishers sun
exceeding five hutldred thousand dollars
exclusive OF paper, printing and binding