

4 ENCYCLOPEDIA AMERICANA. 



This cnnnot but prove a valuable addition to the literature of the ago. Mer 

 Advertiser. 



The appearance of the first volume of this valuable work in this country, is 

 an event not less creditable to its enterprising publishers, than it is likely to 

 prove lastingly beneficial to the public. When completed, according to the 

 mode) presented by the first volume, it will deserve to be regarded as the spirit 

 of all the best Encyclopaedias, since it comprises whatever is really desirable 

 and necessary in them, and in addition, a large proportion of articles entirely 

 original, or expressly written for its pages. This is the condition of all the 

 articles of American Biography, by Mr. Walsh ; those on Zoology, by Dr. God- 

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 distinguished for his successful devotion to those studies. The work abounds 

 with interesting and useful matter, presented in a condensed and perspicuous 

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 twelve octavo volumes, which may be placed on an office table, or occupy a 

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 almost a room to itself, like its ponderous predecessors, the Britannica, Edin- 

 burgensis, &c. 



The vast circulation this work lias had in Europe, where it has already been 

 reprinted in four or five languages, not to speak of the numerous German edi 

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 To every man engaged in public business, who needs a correct and ample book 

 of reference on various topics of science and letters, the Encyclopaedia Ameri- 

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 *hese twelve volumes will prove a mine which will amply repay its purchaser; 

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 Attention. These, at least, are our conclusions after a close and candid ex- 

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We have seen and carefully examined the first volume of the Encyclopaedia 

 Americana, just published by Carey, Lea and Carey, and think our reader: iu;tv 

 be congratulated upon the opportunity of making such a valuable accession to 

 their libraries. Aurora. 



The department of American Biography, a subject of which it should bo 

 disgraceful to be ignorant, to the degree that many are, is, in this work, a 

 prominent feature, and has received the attention of one of the most \\\ 

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 nish. Boston Courier. 



According to the plan of Dr. Lieber, a desideratum will be supplied; thr> t.-Ji 

 stance of contemporary knowledge will be brought within a small compass r 

 and the character and "uses of a manual will be imparted to a kind of pu 

 tiori heretofore reserved, on strong shelves, for occasional reference. 1 

 who understand the German language, the Conversation Lexicon is consulted 

 ten times for one application to any English En cyclopaedia. National Gnz. 



The volume now published is not only highly honorable to the taste, ability 

 md industry of its editors and publishers, but furnishes a proud sample of the 

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 enterprises may now be accomplished in our country. Of the manner in which 

 the editors have thus far completed their task, it is impossible, in the course of 

 a b'-ief newspaper article, to speak with adequate justice. Boston Bulletin. 



We have looked at the contents, generally, of the second volume of this 

 work, arid think it merits the encomiums which have been bestowed on it in 

 the northern papers. It continues to be particularly rich in the departments 

 of Biography and Natural History. When we look at the large mass of mis- 

 cellaneous knowledge spread before the reader, in a form which has never be.n 

 equalled for its condensation, and conveyed in a style that cannot bo surpassed 

 for propriety and perspicuity, we cannot but think that the American Ency- 

 clopaedia deserves a place in every collection, in which works of reference form 

 a portion." Southern Patriot. 



