4 ENCYCLOPAEDIA AMERICANA* 



This cannot but prove a valuable addition to the literature of the age. Msr 

 Advertiser. 



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

 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 

 model 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 page's. This is the condition of all the 

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

 rnaii ; and those on Mineralogy and Chemistry, by a gentleman of Boston, 

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

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

 style; nor is it one of its least commendations that it is to be comprised in 

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

 shelf in the parlor, ever ready for immediate reference, instead of requiring 

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

 burgensis, &c. 



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

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

 tions, of which SEVEN have been published, speaks loudly in favor of its in- 

 trinsic merit without which such a celebrity could never have been attained. 

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

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

 cana will be almost invaluable, lo individuals obliged to goto situation* 

 where books are neither numerous nor easily procured, the rich contents of" 

 these twelve volumes will prove a mine which will amply repay its purchaser, 

 and be with difficulty exhausted, and we recommend it to their patronage in 

 the full conviction of its worth. Indeed it is difficult to say to what class of 

 readers such a book would not prove useful, nay, almost indispensable, sinc 

 it combines a great amount of valuable matter in small compass, and at mode- 

 rate expense, and is in every respect well suited to augment the reader's stock 

 of ideas, and powers of conversation, without severely taxing time or fatiguing 

 attention. These, at least, are our contusions after a close and candid ex- 

 amination of the first volume. Am. D^ttLMvcrtiser. 



We have seen and carefully examined t|fc first volume of the Encyclopaedia 

 Americana, just published by Carey, Lea ma Carey, and think our readers may 

 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 be 

 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 indefati- 

 gable writers in this department of literature, which the present age can fur- 

 nish. Boston Courier. 



According to the plan of Dr. Lieber, a desideratum will be supplied ; the snb- 

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

 and the character and uses of a manual will be imparted to a kind of publica- 

 tion heretofore reserved, on strong shelves, for occasional reference. By those 

 who understand the German language, the Conversation Lexicon is consulted 

 ten times for one application to any English Encyclopaedia. National Gaz. 



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

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

 accuracy and elegance, with which the most elaborate and important literary 

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

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

 a brief newspaper article, to speak with adequate justice. Boston Bulletin. 



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

 work, and think it merits the encomiums which have been bestowed OB 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 been 

 equalled for its condensation, and conveyed in a style that, cdnnot be surpassed 

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

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

 a portion." Southern Patriot. 



