The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-11-25
LITTELL2S LIVING AGE.
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BY E. LITTELL CO., BOSTON
ENHlS work is conducted in the spirit of Lit
n tells Museum of Foreign Literature, (Which
was favorably received by the public for twenty
years. but as 1t is twice as large, and appears so
often, we not only give spirit and freshness TO il
by many things which were excluded by month :
delay, but while thus extending our scope, and
gathering greater and more attractive variety,
able so to increase the solid and substantial
part of our literary, historical, and political har-
vest, as fully to satisfy the wants Of the American
reader
Ihe elaborate and stately Essays of the Edin.
burgh, Quarterly, and other Reviews; and Black
WOOD 5 notable criticisms on Poetry, his keen
political Commentaries, highly wrought Tales,
and vivid descriptions Of rural and mountain
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the Dublin University, New Monthly, Fraser 5.
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Times. We shall increase our variety bv inlpor-
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new growth Of the British colonies.
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world,) and Voyages and Travels, will be favorite
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