The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-12-17
LITTELL'S LIVING AGE.
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IL telI's Museum of Foreign Literature, (Which
was favorably received by the public for twenty
years. but as il is twice as large and appears 50
often, we not only give spirit and freshness to II
by many things which were excluded by month !
delay, but while thus extending our scope, anC
gathering greater and more attractive variety
are able so to increase the solid and substantial
part of our literary, historical, and political har
vest, fully to satisfy the wants Of the American
reader
The elaborate and stately Essays Of the Edin-
burgh, Quarterly, and other Reviews; and Black
wood notable criticisms on Poetry, his keen
political Commentaries, highly wrought Tales,
and vivid descriptions Of rural and mountain
scenery; and the contributions TO Literature, His
tory, and common life, by the sagacious Spectator,
the sparkling Examiner, the judlcious Athenaum
the busy and industrious Literary Gazette, the
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| mixed with the Military and Naval "reminiscences
or the United Service, and with the best articles OF
the Dublin University, New Monthly, Fraser's
Tait's AlnswOrth =, Hoods, and Sporting Maya
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Times. We shall increase our variety by impor.
new growth Of the British colonies.
The steamship has brought Europe, Asia, and
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selves, but because the nations seem to be hasten
ing through rapid process Of change, to some
new state Of things, which the merely politica
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