LITTELL'S LIVING AGE. 



Jan. 1, 1890, The Living Age entered upon its ]§4fh 

 Volume. 



Approved in the outset by Judge Story, Chancellor Kent, 

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

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

 tion and success. 



A WEEKLY 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. 



OPINIONS. 



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