The republic., 1851-09-10
LIrTELL,s LIVING AGE.
Published eUerg Saturday, at l2s cents Number,
Yearly, IN aduance, So.

Yearly, IN aduance, So.
By Z. LITTELL AND CO., BOSTON.
ENHls work is conducted in the spirit of LittelPs
H. Museum of Foreign Literature, (Which
favorably received by the public fer twenty years,)
but as il is twice as large and appears often,
not only give spirit and freshness to it by many
things which were excluded by months delay,
but while thus extending our scope, and gathering
greater and more attractive variety are able so
to increase the solid and substantial part of lit
erary historical, and political harvest, fully TO
satisfy the wants the American reader.
The elaborate and stately Essays of the EdEs
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 sagacious Spectator, the sparkling
Examiner, the judicious Atheneum, the busy and
industrious Literary Gazette, the sensible and COM
prehensve Britannia, the sober and respectable
Christian Observer; these intermixed with the
Military and Naval "reminiscences of the United
Service, and with the best articles of the Dublin
University, New Monthly, Frasers, Tait's, Aims
worth E, Hoods, and Sporting Magazines, and of
Chambers's admirable Journal. We do not con-
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 our variety by importations 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 as merchants, travellers,
and politicians, with all parts of the world that,
much more than ever, il now becomes every intel
hgent American to be informed of the conditions
and changes of foreign countries. And this not
only because of their nearer connexion with ours
selves, but because the rations seem to be hasten
ing through rapid pr cess of change, to some new
state of things which the merely political prophet
cannot compute or foresee.
Geographical Discoveries, the progress of fColoni-
cation, (Which is extending the whole world \
and Voyages and Travels, will be favorte matter
rapa and in hall
atically and very fully acquaint our readers with
he great department offoreign affairs, without en-
tlrely neglecting our own.
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to all who wish to keep themselves informed of the
rapid progress OF the movement-to statesmen, di-
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and men of eisure,-it is still stronger object TO
make it attractive to their wives and children We
believe that can thus do some good in our day
and generation, and hope to make the work indis-
pensabe in every well-informed family. We say
Indispensable because in this day
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 gratified.
We hope, that by stwinnowing the wheat from
the chaY," by providing 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 il wIlFaspire to raise the
standard of public taste
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ecution of the work from Judge Story, Chancellor
Kent, DR.. Bethune, and Messrs. Jared Sparks
W. II. Prescott, George Bancroft, and George
Ticknor, have been published in former advertise
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