The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-10-25
LITTELL'S LIVING AGE.
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TTNHIS work is conducted in the spirit of LitteiPs
Il Museum of Foreign Literature, (Which
favoraby received by the public for twenty years)
but it is twice as large and appears SO often, wo
not only give spirit and freshness to it by many
things which were excluded by a months delays
but while thus extending scope, and gathering
greater and more attractive variety, able so
to increase the soil 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 EdiL-
burgh, Quarterly, and other Reviews; and Black
woods noble crticsmson Poetry, his keen political
Commentaries, highly wrought Tales, and vivid
descriptions of rural and mountain scenery; and
the contributions to Literature, History and COM
life, by the sagacious Spectator, the sparkling
Examiner, the judicious AthenDum, the busy and
industrious Literary Gazette, the sensible and com
prehcnsive Britannia, the sober and respectable
Christian Observer; these are intermixed with tho
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's, Hoods, and Sporting Magazines, and OF
Chambers's admirable Journal. We do not coz
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dom from Punch; and, when we think IT good
| enough, make use of the thunder of The Times.
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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; SO that,
much more than ever, IT now becomes every intel
and changes of fo-eign countries. And this not
only because of their nearer connexion with our-
selves, but because thcr ations seem to be hasten
ing through rapid pr Jess OF change, to some new
state of things which the merely political prophet
cannot compute or forcsee.
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and Voyages and Travels, will be favorite matter
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he great department OF orelgn affairs, without en-
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