The American Cyclopædia: a Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge
The American Cyclopædia: a Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge
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美国百科全书：一本通俗常识词典
作者：
George d. Ripley;C. Dana
谁也没有想到，像美国这样一个非常注重实际的国家，竟会在百科全书这种不可或缺的东西上远远落后于刻板的欧洲人民。这样一部著作在美国出版确实是多年以前的事了，最近由富有进取心的阿普尔顿公司完成的，确实是我们的一些读者可能记得的“新美国百科全书”的新版本。从表面上看，现在的问题是对旧问题的巨大改进，它的黑色葬礼覆盖物和令人不快的类型。的确，目前的版本可以被看作是一部真正的新作品，在所有部门都是最新的。从旧版完成到新版开始，已经过去了十年；从1863年到1873年，几乎所有的科学部门都取得了重大进展。阿普尔顿先生为考虑到这些进步作出了适当的规定，这一点从他们在出版新版时所能获得的人员名单中可以明显看出。除了总编辑里普利和达纳先生以及四位“副编辑”之外，还有一大群“审校人员”，以及一群包括美国大多数知名科学工作者在内的“投稿人”。新版本的工作组织似乎非常出色，从对工作人员的广泛场所的描述来看，它似乎是一个微型的大英博物馆，大大改进了安排。美国的Cyclopædia：一本通俗的常识词典。乔治·雷普利，查尔斯·a·达纳主编，17卷。（纽约和伦敦：阿普尔顿公司，1873-1878）
IT was not to be expected that so eminently practical a nation as the United States would be long behind the stereotyped peoples of Europe in so indispensable an article as an encyclopædia. It is indeed many years since such a work was published in the States, and that so recently completed by the enterprising firm of Appleton is really a new edition of what some of our readers may remember as “The New American Cyclopaedia.” On the very surface the present issue is a vast improvement on the old, with its black funereal covers and unpleasant type. Indeed, the present edition may be regarded as really a new work, brought up to date in all departments. Ten years had elapsed between the completion of the old edition and the commencement of the new, and between 1863 and 1873, advances of vast importance had been made in nearly all departments of science. That Messrs. Appleton made competent provision to take account of these advances is evident from the list of men whose services they were able to obtain in bringing out the new edition. Besides the editors-in-chief, Messrs. Ripley and Dana, and four “associate editors,” there was a large staff or “revisers,” and a “corps” of contributors containing most of the well-known scientific workers of the States. The organisation of the work of the new edition appears to have been excellent, and from a description of the extensive premises devoted to the staff, it seems to have been a British Museum in miniature, with greatly improved arrangements.The American Cyclopædia: a Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge.Edited by George Ripley Charles A. Dana. 17 vols. (New York and London: Appleton and Co., 1873–1878.)