The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-12-08
LITTELL'S LIVING AGE.
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BY E. LITTELL AND CO., BOSTON.
TNHlS work is conducted in the spirit Of Littel's
a. Museum of Foreign Literature, (Which was
favoraby received by the public for twenty years
but as il is twice as lare and appears 40 of}en We
not only give spirit and freshness to il by many
things which were excluded by months delay,
but while thus extending our scope, and gathering
greater and more attractive variety, able so
to increase the solid and substantial part of lit
erary historical, and political harvest as fully to
satisfy the wants ofthe American reader.
The elaborate and stately Essays of the Edir.
burgh, Quarterly, and other Reviews; and Black
woods noble critcismson 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 ife by the sagacous Spectator, the sparkling
Examiner, the judcious Atheneum, the busy and
industrious Literary Gazette the sensible and com
prehcnsive Britannia, the sober and respectable
Christian Observer; these are intcrmixed with the
Military and Naval "reminiscences of the United
Service, and with the best articles of the Dublin
University New Monthly, Fraser's, Tait's, Aims
worth ?, Hoods, and Sporting Magazines and Of
Chambers's admirable Journal. We do not cor :
slider it beneath dignity to borrow wit and wis.
dom from Punch; and, when we think it good
enough, make use of the thunder of The Times.
We shall increase variety by importatiQnsl from
the continent of Europe, andfrom the new growth
ofthe British colonies.
The steamship has brought Europe, Asia, and
Africa into our neighborhood, and will greatly
multiply our connexions as merchants, travellers,
and politicians with all parts OF the world; so that
much more than ever, il now becomes every intel
Hgcnt American TO be in formed of the conditions
and changes of foreign countries And this not
only because of their nearer connexion with our.
selves, but because the atoms seem to be hasten
ing through rapid pr cess of change, to some new
state ofthngs, which the merely political prophet
cannot compute or ioresee.
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 shallsystem-
atically and very fully acquaint our readers with
he great department OF foreign affairs, without en-
tirely neglectng our own,
While we aspfre tomake the Liuing Ag gedesirablc
to all who wish to keep themselves informed of the
rapid progress of the moyemcnt-to statesmen, di
vines, lawyers, and physicians-to men of business
and men of leisure-it is still stronger object to
make il attractive to their wives and children We
believe tbCt WI can thus do some good in day
and generation, and hope to make the work ndis-
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Indispensable because ia this day Of choapliterature
it is not possible to guard against the influx of what
is bad in taste and vicious in morals, In any other
way than by furnishing sufficient supply of
healthy character The mentaland moral appetite
must be gratihed.
we hope that by ''winnowing the wheat from
the chaff, by roviding abundantly for the imagi-
nation and by large collection of Biography,
Voyages and Travels, history, and more solid mat
ter, we may produce work which shall be popular
while at the same time it will aspire to raise the
standard of public taste
Gy-Letters in commendation of the plan and ex
ecution of the work from Judge Story, Chancellor
Kent, DR.. Bcthune, and Messrs. Jared Sparks,
w II. Prescott, George Bancroft, and Geosge
Ticknor, have been published in faFrner advertise
mcnts.
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containing four or five weekly numbers. In this
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with other works containing IN EACH PART double
the matter Of any of the quarteries. But we
commend the weekly numbcrsasfresher and fuller
oflife.
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