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FOUNDED BY E. LITTELL IN 1844. 



THE LIVING AGE 



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A Necessity To Every Reader of Intelligence and Literary Taste 



"THE SIEGE Of THE LEGATIONS" 



The Living Age will begin in its issue for November 17, and will 

 continue for several successive numbers, a thrilling account of "The Siege 

 of the Legations," written by Dr. Morrison, the well-known correspondent 

 of The London Times at Peking. This narrative is of absorbing interest 

 in its descriptions of the daily life of the besieged legationers, and it is 

 noteworthy also as containing some disclosures relating to the inside history 

 of what went on at Peking in those stirring days, which are altogether new 

 and of the utmost importance. The unusual length of Dr. Morrison's 

 narrative has precluded and probably will preclude any other publication 

 of it on this side of the Atlantic In England it has attracted wide 

 notice. 



" The London Spectator" remarks concerning Dr. Morrison's narrative of the siege : 

 The Times has at last received and published a full narrative from its correspondent, Dr. 

 Morrison, of all that preceded and accompanied the siege of the Legations. Gibbon could not have 



told the story better " Jt is obviously impartial, full of detail, yet clear and consistent, and it has 

 been accepted throughout the Continent as the history of that strange episode in the relations of 

 Europe with Asia. 



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 of THE LIVING AGE from October 1st to December 31st, 1900. These 

 numbers will contain The Sieye of the Legations, as above, Heinrich vSeid- 

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