The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-07-16
LTrTELL'S LIVING AGE.
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BYE LITrELL AND CO., BOSTON.
INHlS work is conducted in the spirit of LittelPs
| l. Museum of Foreign Literature, (Which was
favoraby received by the public for twenty years,)
but it is twice large and appears often, we
not only give spirit and freshness TO ii by many
| things which were excluded by months delay
but while thus extending scope, and gathering
greater and more attractive variety, able 30
to increase the solid and substantial part of our lit
erary, historical, and political harvest, as fully to
satisfy the wants of the American reader.
| The elaborate and stately Essays of the Edin-
burgh, Quarterly, and other Reviews and Black
woods noble criticisms Poetry, his keen political
Commentaries, highly wrought Tales, and VIVID
descriptions of rural and mountain scenery; and
the contributions to Literature History, and com
mon life, by the sagacious Spectator, the sparkling
| Examiner, the judicious Athengum, the busy and
| industrious Literary Gazette, the sensible and com
prehcnsive Britannia, the sober and respectable
Christian Observer; these are intermixed with the
Military and Naval "reminiscences of the United
| Service, and with the best articles of the Dublin
| University, New Monthly, Fraser's, Tai,s Aims
| worth's, Hoods, and Sporting Magazine, and of
| Chambers's admirable Journal. We do not
slider it beneath our dignity to borrow wi, nd wis
dom from Punch; and, when we think II good
enough, make use of the thunder Of The Times.
We shall increase variety by importatiuns from
| the continent of Europe, and from the new growth
OF the British colonies.
The steamship has brought Europe, Asia, and
Africa into neighborhood, and will greatly
multiply our connexions merchants, travellers,
and politicians, with all parts of the world; that
Hgent American to be informed of the conditions
and changes of foreign countries And this not
only because of their nearer connexion with our
selves, but because the nations to be hasten
ing through rapid process of change, to some new
state of things, which the merely political prophet
cannot compute or foresee
Geographical Discoveries, the progress of Coloni-
cation, (Which is extending over the whole world,)
and Voyages and Travels, will be favorite matter
for selections; and in general, we shall system
atically and very fully acquaint our readers with
the great department of foreign affairs, without
trely neglecting our own.
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to all who wish TO keep themselves informed of the
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way than by furnishing a sufficient supply of a
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nation, and by large collection of Biography,
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ter we may produce a work which shall be popular,
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standard of public taste.
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