1899 



FIFTY-FIFTH YEAR. 



Eclectic Magazine 



OF 



Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, 



and Monthly Edition of " Living Age." 



THE ECLECTIC MAGAZINE reproduces from all the leading Foreign Periodicals 

 those articles of interest or value to American Readers. It will endeavor to consult 

 the taste of all thoughtful and intelligent people, and to present impartially the most valuable 

 articles by the ablest writers on both sides of the great questions of the day which are occupy- 

 ing the attention of the literary and scientific world. 



The yearly numbers of the Eclectic comprise 1728 pages — a carefully selected Library 

 in itself — containing : 



SCIENCE, REVIEWS, 



HISTORY, ESSAYS, 



POETRY, CRITICISMS, 



PHILOSOPHY, TRA VELS, 



BIOGRAPHY, SHORT STORIES. 



The following list gives the principal periodicals selected from, and the names of some 

 of the well-known authors whose articles have recently appeared in the Eclectic : 



PERIODICALS. 



■Westminster Review, 

 Contemporary Review, 

 Fortnightly Review, 

 The Nineteenth Century, 

 Popular Science Review, 

 Blackwood's Magazine, 

 Cornhill Magazine, 

 Macmillan's Magazine, 

 New Review, 

 National Review, 

 Chambers's Journal, 

 Temple Bar, 

 The Athenaeum, 

 Public Opinion, 

 Saturday Review, 

 The Spectator, etc., etc. 



AUTHORS. 



Andrew Lang, 



Prof. Max Muller, 



J. Norman Lockyer, F. R. S., 



James Bryce, M. P., 



William Black, 



W. H. Mallock, 



Herbert Spencer, 



T. P. Mahaffy, 



Sir Robert Ball, 



Prince Kropotkin, 



Archdeacon Farrar, 



St. George Mivart, 



Rev. H. R. Haweis, 



Frederic Harrison, 



Karl Blind, etc., etc. 



The aim of the ECLECTIC is to be instructive and not sensational, and it commends itself 

 particularly to Teachers, Scholars, Lawyers, Clergymen, and all intelligent readers who desire 

 to keep informed of the intellectual progress of the age. 



With the Eclectic and one good American Monthly, the reader will be fully abreast of 

 the times. 



TERMS: Single copies, 45 cents ; one copy one year, $5.00. Trial subscription for three 

 months, $1.00. The Eclectic and any $4.00 Magazine to one address, $8.00. Special rates 

 made to clubs of two or more periodicals which include the ECLECTIC. 



E. R. PELTON, Publisher, 19 East 16th Street, New York. 



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