Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1845-02-01
THE LIVING A G. II,
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURI
AT i25 CENTS A NUMBER.

vTNHIS is work composed CHI fly Of choice az
Il 'icles from tie Periodical Literature Of Europe
Boston having become the point Of communIca-
ton with the Old World. and the intercourse being
now so frequent, we thk it the best location for
office, and believe tha, such compilation nav
be issued once a week. from this city, as viii ra
read with pleasure and profit in oil pats Of Il y
United States.
TuE LIyixs AaE will be conducted in the spi,
of Lit,ell.s Museum of Foreign Literature, (Which
favorahly received ty the public for the pas, 20
years,) but as it will he twice large and will at
pear so often, shall not only give spirit md
freshness to it by many things which were eScIu
deJ Ivy n months delay, hu, shall slso,-whie thus
extending our scope and gathering a greater and
more attractive variety,-te able so to increase the
solid and substantial part of our literary, historical
and political harvest, fully TO satisfy the wants
OF the American reader.
The el,bora,e and stately Essays Of the Edin.
hurgh Qua terly, aud other Reviews; and Black
woods n, hle criticisms on Poetry, his keen pnliti-
cal Commentaries. highly wrought Tales and wi
descriptions Of rural and mountain Scenery anil
the contributions 10 Literature, History and con-
mon life, by the saeacious Spectator, the spork ing
Examiner, the judicious Ather Hum the busy aud
industrious Literary Gazette, the sensible and CONF
prehensve Britannia, the sober and respectable
Christian Observer; these shall be in,ermiyed with
the Military and Naval "reminiscences Of the Uni
ted Service ard With the best articles of the Dub.
lin University New Monthly, Frsser's, Tsit's
Ainsworlh's Hoods, and Sporting Magazines and
Of Chamber admirable Journal. We shall not
consider il beneath our dignity 10 borrow wit and
wisdom from Punch and, when we think it good
enough, shall use the thunder of The Times. We
shall increase our variety hy mportations from tho
continent of Europe, and from the new growth of
the British Colonies.
Geographical discoveries. the progress ef Colo>
niza,ion, (Which is ex,enhing over the whole world
| and Voyages and Travels, will be favoie matter
for our selections and in general shall svstr-
malically and very fully acquaint our re ,ders with
the great department of Foreign atfirs.
While We aspire to make the LIVING AGE de-
sirable to all who wish to keep Themselves infom-
! I'd of the rapid progress Of the movement-to
Ststesmcn, Divines, Lawyers and Physicans-lo 10
men Of business, and to men Of lelsure-it is sill
sror ger obi ct of cur ambition to make it p!troc-
| tive and useful to their Wives and Children. We
believe that we can thus do some good in our day
! and generation and hope to make lhe work iud,s-
/ rensahle in every wsliuformCd family We say
indispensable, because in this day Of cheap litcIa-
ture it is not possible to guard against the influx IF
what is bad in taste aud vicious in morals, il any
other way than hy furnishing sufficient supply II
a healthy character. The mental anl moral appe-
! tte mus, he grantied.
We hope, that, hy "winnowing the whea, from
the chat" by providing ahurddntlv for the maein>
ation and by a large collection of Bogra,hy, Voy.
ages .nd Travels, Hi-toy, ard more solid matter,
we may produce a work which hall be popular,
while at the same time it will aspire to raise he
stardah of public ta>te.
The Living Age VII he large pamphlet hand.
,omely printed, snd stitched in cover, containing
! as much matter an ordinary duodec mo volume,
and upon good type and paper.
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