FOUNDED BY E. LITTELL IN 1844. 
THE LIVING A 
A Weekly Magazine of aes : 
FOREIGN PERIODICAL LITERATURE, 
Giving Yearly 3,600 Double Column Octavo Pages of Matter (mak- 
ing Four Large Volumes) Unequalled in Quality and Quantity: 
It is issued Every Saturday and Contains 
ARTICLES OF STANDARD AND POPULAR INTE ES 
THE LIVING AGE embraces the productions of The Ablest Living 
PE a olitics d Discovery g 
amount of reading unapproached by any other periodical in the world, a 
_ the most valuable Literary and Scientific matter of the day. 
“Reviews of recent publications, the latest results of 
` Research, Biographical Sketches of eminent characters, Travel, 
ation, Literary Criticism, and every phase of Culture ani 
. Europe, Fiction and Choice Poetry—all these make rue The Li 
1844 cat ah its fifty-three years of existence it has maintained, invailelly 
the highest degree of literary excellence, and has held a pinin 
Bay among the rae hcouee magazines of the day. - 
year, WAS REDUCED To SIX  DoLrars. i 
ig Enco uraged by the response to that announcement and in pursuance ‘the 
ee plan of its ex ai to give the best the world can offer, the aea Ne: arran 
introducti n of 
Ate 
me widening its scope as to embrace 
od 
Ast, TRANSLATIONS | i2 
<U noteworthy articles from the leading publica- | containing three 
tions, ı magazines and reviews of 
_ FRANCE, GERMANY, SPAIN -i ITALY, 
many of which contain matter rof Talie .%o 
the American reader, ‘yet which, for obvious rea - 
sons, erwise J 
