LITTELL'5 LIVING AGE 



1844. In 1893 will enter its YEAR OF JUBILEE, 



I hence a retrospective glance at its history may be now appropriately taken, 

 • In establishing this magazine its founder sought to present in convenient 

 form a history of the world's progress, by selecting from the whole wide field 

 of European Periodical Literature, the best articles by the most eminent 

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" I have never seen any similar publication of equal merit." — George Ticknor, A ugust, 1844. 

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A.D. 1892. " Only the best has ever filled its pages; the best thought, rendered in the purest English. Nothing 

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