LITTELL'S LIVING AGE. 



Jan. 1, 1889, The Living Age entered upon its ISOth 

 Volume. 



Approved in the outset by Judge Story, Chancellor Kent, 

 President Adams, historians Sparks, Prescott, Ticknor, Ban- 

 croft, any many others, it has met with constant commenda- 

 tion and success. 



A WEEKX.Y MAGAZINE, it gives more than 



Three and a Quarter Thousand 



double-column octavo pages of reading-matter yearly ; and pre- 

 sents, with a combined freshness and completeness nowhere else attempted, 

 The Best Essays, Reviews, Criticisms, Tales, 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. 



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