

“A Weekly Feast to Nourish Hungry Minds.’’—N.Y. Evangelist 






Founded by E. LITTELL in 1844 
THE LIVING AGE 
HE LIVING AGE, one of the oldest and most widely-known of Ameri- 
y can literary magazines, was founded by E. LITTELL in 1844, and has 
been published weekly without interruption for fifty-seven years. 
It presents the cream o£ foreign periodical literature, and reprints 
without abridgment the most noteworthy essays, travel sketches, fiction, 
social and political papers, and discussions of literary, artistic and scien- 
tific subjects from the leading quarterlies, monthly magazines and 
reviews, and literary and scientific weekly journals. 
To these long-established and distinctive features, it has added an editorial 
department, devoted to “Books and Authors,’’ in which are published, weekly, 
paragraphs of literary news and comment, and careful, honest and discriminating 
notices of the more important new publications. 



The Living Age 
olds a unique position in the periodical world as a weekly eclectic magazine. 
Intelligent Americans who want presented to them from week to week the most 
important and timely articles from foreign periodicals find what they want in THE 
LiviNG Ace, and can find it nowhere else. 




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The Living Age 
Is a weekly sixty-four page magazine, which prints in the course of a year twice 
as much matter as most of the monthly magazines, and is able, by reason of its 
wide field of selection, to publish articles by a larger number of writers of 
the first rank than any other magazine. 

TO INTPODUCE THE MAGAZINE 
To readers who are not now familiar with it, the publishers of The 
Living Age will send it by mail, postfaid, to any name not already on 
the subscription lists, for 
THREE MONTHS, THIRTEEN 
WEEKS, FOR ONE DOLLAR 
ese thirteen issues will aggregate about eight hundred and fifty 
Octavo pages of the World's Best Current Literature. Subscriptions 
may begin with any desired date. 


THE LIVING AGE COMPANY 
P. 0. BOX 5206. BOSTON, MASS. 






