Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1885-09-03
LITERARY.
Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia.
VOLUME TX. 1884.

VOLUME TX. 1884.
A reference to any of the existing
cyclop8dias of the day will show how
far behind the times is the information
given on most of the matter of contem-
poraneous interest, while none tell of
the political questions of the times and
recent changes in governments, at
home or abroad. The more recent and
wonderful discoveries of science are
silently ignored, and the student is left
in ignorance of the steady march of
civilization throughout the world, since
the writing of the original articles, in
many cases ten yearsago.
The Annual Cyclopedia has always
based its claim for recognition on being
reliable record of current events, and
as such forming valuable supplement
to the american Cyclopadia" The
subscriber, possessed of this series, has
the advantage of all new matter in the
political, civil, and social progress of
the world, the improvements in the
industrial branches, the developments
of science and art, discoveries and COM
merce, down to the very latest date.
In the volume for 1884 the progress in
two sciences not written up recently is
set forth by writers specially qualified
for the work.
The volume is embellished with fine
steel portraits, executed expressly for
the work, of President Cleveland, King
Humbert of Italy, and the late General
Charles George Gordon; and there are
portraits on wood of Vice-President
Hendricks, Wendell Phillips, Charles
Reade, Fanny Elssler, Sir BartIe Frere,
Henry FaWcett, Hans Makart, Charles
O'Conor, Arthur, Peel (the new Speak
er of the British House of Commons),
and others.
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including the present-from 1876 to
1884, which will prove an attractive
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