FOUNDED BY E. LITTELL IN 1844. 
THE LIVING AGE 
A Weekly Magazine of 
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 INTEREST. 
NG AGE embraces the productions of The Ablest te 
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1844 Through its fifty-three years of existence it has maintained, invariably, 1897 
the highest degree of literary ee and has held a prominent 
place among the foremost magazines of t J $ 
In 1896 the subscription price of THE Livinc oe which had been Eight Dollars a; 
year, WAS REDUCED TO Six DOLLAR 
ncouraged by the response to tag announcement and in pursuance of the coe 
plan of its founder to give the best the world can offer, the publishers have arranged for the — 
introduction of a 
NEW AND ATTRACTIVE FEATURES FOR 1897, 
so widening its scope as to embrace 
Is TRANSLATIONS 2d, The addition of a RRES ee 
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tions, magazines and review READINGS FROM AMERICAN “MAGAZINES, : 
FRANCE, GERMANY, ean and ITALY, READINGS FROM NEW BOOKS, 
many of which contain matter of much value to A LIST OF BOOKS OF THE MONTH. 
the American reader, yet which, for obvious rea- | This Supplement will add about three hundred 
sons, are otherwise pheslately beyond his reach. | % a rete. eS E 
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