We have pleasure in announcing that a full and interesting biographical sketch of Rev. Mary B. G. Eddy, together with two portraits, have been published in the National Cyclopedia of American Biography, of which Messrs. James T. 'White Co., of New York, are the Publishers. The sketch and portraits will appear in the third volume, which has just issued from the press.
It is expected that the work will be completed in twelve volumes, but as the world moves, and new personalities are continually spring into prominence, it can be extended indefinitely. Three additional volumes are about ready for publication, and with those already issued, cover the great leaders in our history, while those prominent in various sections, who cannot be omitted from such a work, will find place in subsequent volumes.
The scope of the work is broad, and covers ground heretofore uncovered. It is said by the Publishers to be "the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the Republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time." It is edited by distinguished biographers, selected and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars and statesmen of the day. "We have seen the first two volumes, and they seem to fully meet the claims of the Publishers. One of the portraits of Mrs. Eddy is from the last photograph taken of her, with which so many Scientists are familiar, and is somewhat larger, and the other is a marginal vignette.
