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LITTELL'S

LITTELL'S LIVING AGE

Has been published for more than twenty years, and is now enlarged. It is issued

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giving fifty-two numbers and over THREE THOUSAND double-column octavo pages of reading-matter yearly. It contains the best Reviews, Criticisms, Tales, Fugitive Poetry, Scientific, Biographical, Historical, and Political Information, gathered from the entire body of English Periodical Literature, and forming four handsome volumes every year, of immediate interest, and solid, permanent value.

EXTRACTS FROM NOTICES.

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From Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, May, 1867. "Were I, in view of all the competitors that are now in the field, to choose, I should certainly choose THE LIVING AGE.... Nor is there, in any library that I know of, so much instructive and entertaining reading in the same number of volumes."

From the New-York Times.

"The taste, judgment, and wise tact displayed in the selection of articles are above all praise, because they have never been equalled."

From the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, "We can do those among our readers who love sound and pure literature no better service than by referring them to this sterling weekly. It is decidedly the best magazine of the class published in the United

States, if not in the world."

From the New York Independent. "No one can read, from week to week, the selections brought before him in THE LIVING AGE, Without becoming conscious of a quickening of his own faculties, and an enlargement of his mental horizon. Few private libraries, of course, can now secure the back volumes, sets of which are limited and costly. But public libraries in towns and villages ought, if possible, to be furnished with such a treasury of good reading; and individuals may begin as subscribers for the new series, and thus keep pace in future with the age in which they live."

From the Chicago Daily Republican, Dec. 14, 1867. "LITTELL'S LIVING AGE is the oldest, and by far the best, concentration of choice periodical literature printed in this country. It occupies a field filled by no other periodical; and its ample pages constitute a repertory of the most admirably-selected miscellany from the entire range of the best home and foreign journals and magazines. The subscriber to Liticul finds himself in possession, at the end of the year, of four large volumes of such reading as can be obtained in no other form, and comprising selections from every department of science, art, philosophy, and belles-lettres. Those who desire a thorough compendium of all that is admirable and noteworthy in the literary world will be spared the trouble of wading abroad; for they will find the essence of all compacted through the sea of reviews and magazines published and concentrated here."

From the Illinois State Journal, 1867.

"It has more real solid worth, more useful infor

mation, than any similar publication we know of, finest poetry, of the English language, are here gath The ablest essays, the most entertaining stories, the ered together."

From the Richmond Whig, 1867.

"If a man were to read Littell's magazine regularly, and read nothing else, he would be well informed on all prominent subjects in the general field of humsa knowledge."

From the Pacific, San Francisco, 1868. "This magazine has gained a reputation for itself such as has never been acquired for any other selected miscellany in our country; and the reputation is a well-deserved one. We are surprised every time we take up a number of the work at the amount of good From the Philadelphia Inquirer, Dec. 9, 1867. reading that we find in it. Its publication in weekly "Age cannot wither, nor custom stale, its infinite numbers gives to it a great advantage over its monthvariety. On the contrary, it improves with time, pre-ly contemporaries, in the spirit and freshness of its senting as it does, from week to week, the latest and best thoughts of contemporary writers. A constant reader of Littell' is over enjoying literary advantages obtainable through no other source."

contents."

From the Congregationalist and Recorder, Boston,
December, 1867.

"For instructive, substantial articles, entertaining stories of the best class, choice poetry, and wise variety of selections, adapted to intelligent Christian families, we certainly make no abatement in our recommendation of Littell. No better present can be found than a subscription receipt for the issues of the coming year."

From the New-York Home Journal, 1867. "LITTELL'S LIVING AGE, long distinguished as a pioneer in the republication of the choicest foreign periodical literature, still holds the foremost rank among works of its class. Its standard of selections is a high one, and its contents are not only of interest at the present moment, but possess an enduring value. Its representation of the foreign field of periodical literature is ample and comprehensive; and it combines the tasteful and erudite, the romantic and prac-weeklies, monthlies, and quarterlies, there is one tical, the social and scholarly, the grave and gay, with a skill which is nowhere surpassed, and which is admirably suited to please the cultivated reader."

From the Examiner and Chronicle, New York, 1868. "Among the many periodicals of the time, dailies,

that, for twenty-three years now, has delighted readers of every kind and taste. LITTELL'S LIVING AGE bears a title of truth; it is a living compendium of the thoughts and events of this intensely living age. Interesting from the first number, its long row of solid volumes presents a cabinet of rare gems and

From the Boston Journal, Nov. 2, 1867. "Amid the multiplicity of publications claiming the attention of readers, few give such solid satisfac-precious stones, of curious relics and ingenious invention as this periodical.""

From the Philadelphia Press, March, 1808. "THE LIVING AGE continues to stand at the head

of its class."

From the Round Table, New York, 1867. "There is no other publication which gives its readers so much of the best quality of the leading Eng. lish magazines and reviews."

From the Episcopalian, New York and Philadelphia,

1808.

"Each volume is a library in itself; and the magazine is the leading one of its class."

tions, of useful ores and elaborate manufactures,-of every thing, indeed, to be found by patient industry, and selected by excellent judgment from the realm of contemporaneous publications. The best of English and American current periodical literature is here condensed and put into permanent, accessible form. History, biography, fiction, poetry, wit, science, politics, criticism, art-what is not here! To take and preserve the weekly numbers of THE LIVING AGE is to have a library in process of substantial growth."

From the Christian Statesman, Philadelphia, 1868. "No single Journal gives so perfect a reflection of the mind of the present age."

Published Weekly, at 88.00 a Year, Free of Postage.] An extra copy sont gratis to any one getting up a Club of Five New Subscribers.

ADDRESS

LITTELL & GAY,
30 Bromfield St., BUSTON.

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