﻿LITTELL'S LIVING AGE. 



IN 1887 THE LIVING AGE enters upon its forty-fourth year. It 

 has met with the constant commendation of the leading men and 

 journals of the country, and with uninterrupted success. 



A WEEKLY MAGAZINE, it gives fifty-two numbers of sixty-four 

 pages each, or more than Three and a Quarter Thousand double- 

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 | The best Essays, Reviews, Criticisms, Serial and Short Stories, Sketches of Travel and 

 Discovery, Poetry, Scientific, Biographical, Historical, and Political Information, 

 from the entire body of Foreign Periodical Literature, and from the pens of 



The ablest and most cultivated intellects, in every department of Literature, 

 Science, Politics, and Art, find expression in the Periodical Literature of Europe, and 

 especially of Great Britain. 



The Living Age, forming four large volumes a year, furnishes from the great 

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It is therefore indispensable to every one who wishes to keep pace with the 

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 where it could be improved."— Christian at Work, 

 New York. 



" The aim of the conductors is to give the best and 

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 succeeding now, as for so many years, to the great 

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" It is one of the publications that intelligent people 

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