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LITTELL'S LIVING AGE. 



Jan. 1, 1886, The Living Age entered upon its 168 lh 

 Volume, having met with continuous commendation and 

 success. 



A WEEKLY MAGAZINE, it gives more than 



Three and a Quarter Thousand 



double-column octavo pages of reading-matter yearly. It 

 presents in an inexpensive form, considering its great amount 

 of matter, with freshness, owing to its weekly issue, and with 

 a completeness nowhere else attempted, 



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. 



It is therefore invaluable to every American reader, as the only satisfactorily 

 fresh and COMPLETE compilation of an indispensable current literature — indis- 

 pensable because it embraces the productions of the 



ABLEST LIVING WRITERS 



in all branches of Literature, Science, Politics and Art. 



" It is not too much to say that with the Living Age one commands the whole field 

 of current literary activity ; and it has never been so bright, so comprehensive, so 

 diversified in interest, as it is to-day." — Boston Traveller. 



" It has now for many years held the first place of all our serial publications. . . . 

 There is nothing noteworthy in science, art, literature, biography, philosophy, or re- 

 ligion, that cannot be found in it. . . . It contains nearly all the good literature of the 

 time." — The Churchman, New York. 



" Nearly the ivhole vjorld of authors and writers appear in it in their best moods. . 

 Tlie reader is kept ivell abreast of the current thought of the age." — Boston Journal. 



" It may be truthfully and cordially said that it never offers a dry or valueless 

 page." — New York Tribune. 



" It enables its readers to keep fully abreast of the best thought and literature of 

 civilization." — Christian Advocate, Pittsburgh. 



" Biography, fiction, science, criticism, history, poetry, travels, whatever men are 

 interested in, all are found here." — The Watchman, Boston. 



" Through its pages alone it is possible to be as well informed in current literature 

 as by the perusal of a long list of monthlies." — Philadelphia Inquirer. 



" In fact, a reader needs no more than, this one publication to keep him well abreast 

 of English periodical literature." — Sunday- School Times, Philadelphia. 



" Foremost of the eclectic periodicals." — N. Y. World. 



" In subscribing for it our readers will secure more for their investment than in 

 any other vjay of which we are cognizant." — Iowa Churchman, Davenport. 



" Coming once a week, it gives, white yet fresh, the productions of the foremost 

 writers of the day." — Montreal G-azette. 



" One cannot read every thing. . . . No man will be behind the literature of the 

 times who reads The Living Age." — Zion's Herald, Boston. 



" It furnishes a complete compilation of an indispensable literature." — Chicago 

 Evening Journal. 



" It saves not only time but money." — Pacific Churchman, San Francisco. 



" It has become indispensable." — New York Observer. 



" The best publication we know in the world." — Morning Star, Wilmington, N. C. 



Published weekly at $8.00 a year, free of postage; or for $10.50, The Living 

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 be sent for a year, postpaid; or for $9.50, The Living Age and the St. Nicholas. 



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