Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Preface (supplement)

this volume will be found nearly two thousand notices of Americans of the army and navy who won renown in the recent war with Spain and the Philippine Islands, also of persons of the New World who have in various ways become prominent in the peaceful activities of life during the decade that has passed since the first appearance of &ldquo;Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography,&rdquo; in six octavo volumes. In this new volume is included complete lists of Pen-names, Nicknames, and Sobriquets mentioned in the complete work; also of persons who have died ainoe the publication of the original six volumes in 1887-'8, together with lists of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, of the Presidents of the Continental Congress and of the Congress of the Confederation, 1775-'88, and of the Presidents of the United States, Vice-Presidents, and Cabinet officers from the adoption of the Constitution to the year 1900. This additional volume includes an exhaustive Index, and numerous small portraits, executed by the same skilful artist who, through his fifteen hundred admirable vignettes, added so much to the value of the original work, together with twelve full-page steel portraits and other illustrations.


 * , December, 1899.