LITTELL'S LIVING AGE. 



TN 1890 THE LIVING AGE enters upon its forty-seventh year. 

 . Approved in the outset by Judge Story, Chancellor Kent, Presi- 



dent Adams, historians Sparks, Prescott, Ticknor, Bancroft, and 

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