Charles A. Dana

Meyer's Universum; Charles A. Dana

Now that A meriean Commerce and Enterprise are so rapidly embracing the Globe in their widespreading relations; wh Uemillions of immigrants from every region, with their sturdy industry, their capi tal, the hoard of laborious and economical generations, and a thirst never yet satisfied, for public liberty, and law-guarded order, come to augment the resources, the prosperity, the independence and the power of the United States, the publisher of Meyer s Xlniversitm hopes that he will only meet a great and increasing want of the American pubhc, by laying before it a work designed to afford a living and intimate acquaintance with the natural scenery, historical monuments and social peculiarities of every people. All persons desire to know foreign countries, but few are able to command the means and the time necessary for distant travel, while even that few must still leave many of the most interesting and instructive parts of the world unvisited or unexplored. This desire Meyer sTJ wmermmi Pis intended to supply; it will contain views of the most remarkable cities, pubhc edifices, and natural scenes in every zone and on every continent; accompanied by letter-press descriptions, which, while conveying the most accurate and trustworthy information, will seek to clothe the dry details of facts and figures with something of the vitality of nature, and to enable the reader while he observes historical and political phenomena to gain some insight into the causes from which they spring. Meyer s Vnimermim! has been estabhshed in Germany for years, and has appeared in nearly eveiy language on the European Continent. In Germany, especially, it has met with a degree of success demonstrating its plan to be one answering a universal public want. No other periodical publication in that country has ever approached the circulation which the Unwersturr Cenjoys, in spite of the r
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