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Show LEA AND BLANCHARD'S PUBLICATIONS. ENCYCLOP..EDIA AMERICANA. The numerous subscribers who have been waiting the completion of this volume can now perfect their sets, and all who want A REGISTER OF THE EVENTS OF THE LAST FIFTEEN YEARS, FOR THE WHOLE WORLD, can obtain this volume separately: price Two Dollars uncut in cloth, or Two Dollars and Fifty Cents in leather, to match the styles in which the publishers have been seU.ing sets. Subscribers in the large cities can be supplied on application at any of the principal bookstores ; and persons residing in the country can have their sets matched by sending a volume in charge of friends visiting the city. Complete sets furnished at very low prices in various bindings . .. The publishers of the Encyclopredia Americana conferred an obligation on the public when, fourteen year.s ago, they .issueU the thirteen volumes from their press. They contained a wonderful amount of infonnation, upon almost every subject which would be likely to occupy public attention, or be the theme of conversation in the private circle. Whatever one would wish to inquire about, it seemed only necessary to dip into the Encyclopaldia Americana, and there the outline, at least, would be found, and reference made to those workB which treat at large upon the subject. It wns not strange, therefore, that the work was popular. But in fourteen yeaxs, great events occur. The last fourteen years have been full of them, and great discoveries have been made in sciences and tb.e arts; and great men have, by death, commended their names and deeds to the fidelity of the biographer, so that the Encyclopredia that approached perfection in 1832, might fo.ll considerably behind in 1846. To bring up the work, and keep it at the present point, hns been a task asswned by Professor Vethake, of the PeJllliiylvania University, a gentleman entirely competent to such an undertaking; and with a disposition to do a good work, he has supplied a supplementary volume to the main work, corresponding in size and arrangements therewith, and becoming, indeed, a fourteenth volwne. The author has been exceedingly industrious, and very fortunate in discovering and selecting materials, using all that Gennany has presented, and resorting to every species of information of events connected with the plan of the work, since the pul>lication of the thirteen volwnes. He has continued nrticles that were commenced in that work, and added new articles upon science, biography, history, and geography, so as to make the present volume a necessary appendage in completing facts to the other. The publishers deserve the thankB of the readers of the volume, for the handsome type, and clear white paper they have used 1n the publication.''-Uniled Statea Gazetu. "This volume is worth owning by itself, as a most convenient and reliable compend of recent History, Biography, Statistics, &c., &c. The entiJ:e work limns the cheapest and probably now the most desirable Encyclopredia published for popular use."-NevJ York Tribune. " The Conversations Lexicon (Encvclopaldia Americana) has become a household book in all the in!ol!igent families in Amenca1 and JB undoubtedly the best depository of biographical, historical, geographical and political information of that kind which discriminating readers require."-S'illiman'• Journal. "This volwne of the EncycloP"'dia is a Westminster Abbey of American reputation. What names are on the roll since 1833 !"-N. Y. Literary World. "The work to which this volwne fonns a supplement, is one of the most important contributions that has ever been made to the literature of our country. Besides condensing into a comparallvely narrow compass, the substance of larger workB of the same kind which had preceded it, it contains a vast amount of information that is not elsewhere to be found, and is distinguished, not less for its admirable arrangement, than for the variety of subjects of which it treats. The present volame, which is edited by one of the most distinguished scholars of our country, JB worthy to follow in the train of those which have preceded it. It is a remarkably felicitous condensation of tha more recent improvements in science nnd the arts, besides forming a very important addi, ,.,.. to the department of Biography, the general prog-re'"' of society, &c., &c "-Albany Argru. - • |