Excerpt from Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Vol. 1: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge; A to Beaufort The first edition was issued between 1859 and 1868, and revised reprints, from the original plates corrected, were repeatedly thrown off. But the Publishers recognised that in twenty years much had happened to demand a completely different treatment of many themes. New subjects of interest had emerged: many had become of greater importance: while not a few had lost their claim to prominence. A new edition was resolved on, and what was virtually a new work was issued in 1888 - 92. The bulk of the articles were entirely re-written: the more important were, as may be seen by the lists prefixed to the several volumes, entrusted to eminent Specialists and no one was asked to write or revise any article who was not believed to have some peculiar competence for the business. By rigid economy of space, room was found for thousands of entries not comprised in the old edition, and for greatly extending many of the articles on notable subjects. Colonial matters received fuller treatment. The chief articles on American matters were written by Americans, and copyrighted in the United States, where an authorised edition is published by the Messrs lippincott, of Philadelphia. An editorial note prefixed to the Tenth Volume discusses some other. Features of the work, and gives the names of the editorial staff and others associated with its production. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.