The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-11-15
LITTELL'S LIVING AGE.
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BY E. LITTELL AND CO., BOSTON.
TNHIS work is conducted in the spirit OF LlttelPs
l. Museum of Foreign Literature, (Which was
avoraby received by the public for twenty ycars,)
but it is twice large, and appears so often, wo
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
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 Edlr.
burgh Quarterly, and other Reviews and Black
woods noble crticsmson Poetry, his keen political
Commentaries, highly wrought laies, and vivid
descriptions of rural and mountain scenery; and
the contributions to Literature, History, and conn
life, by the sagacious Spectator, the sparkling
Examiner, the judicious Athen@un' the busy ana
industrious Literary Gazette, the sensible andcoma
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, Ialts, Aims
| worth e. Hoods, and Sporting Magazines, and OF
Chambers's admirable Journal we DO not cor "a
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| dom from Punch; and when we think 1t good
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We shall increase variety by importations from
the continent of Europe, andfrom the new growth
of the British colonies.
The steamship has brought Europe, Asia, and
Africa into our ncighborhood, and will greatly
multiply our connexions as merchants, travellers
and politicians with all parts of the world; that,
much more than ever, 1t now becomes every INTEL
ligent American to be informed oil the conditions
and changes of foreign countries And this not
only because of their nearer connexlon with our.
selves, but because the atoms seem 10 be hasten
ing through rapid pr <css OF change, to some new
state of things, which the merely PoNtica prophet
cannot compute foresee.
Geographical Discoveries, the progress ofCooniss
zation (Which is extending over the whole world,)
and Voyages and Travels, will be tavorite matter
for our tons; and in general we shall system
atically and very fully acqualnt our readers with
he great department of foreign affairs, without en-
tirely negecting our own
While we aspire toma1e the Lining Agedesirnble
to all who wish to keep themselves informed of the
rapid progress of the movement-to statesmen, DID
vines, lawyers, and physicians-to men OF business
and men Of eisure,-it is still stronger object to
make it attractive to their wives and children We
believe that we can thus do some good In our day
and generation, and hope to make the work lndls-
pensable in every we'll informed family We say
because in this day of
il 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 a sufficient supply OF
healthy character. The mentaland moralappetite
must be gratified.
We hope, that by "winnowing the wheat from
the chaf,' byrroviding abqndantly Tor the lmagi-
nation, and by n large collection OF Biography,
Voyages and Travels, History, and more solid mat
ter, we may produce work which shall be popular,
while at the time it will aspire to raise tho
standard of public taste
hJ-Letters in commendaton of the plan and ex-
ecution of the work from Judge Story, Chancellor
Kent, DIR. Bethune, and Messrs- Jared Sparks
w. Ii. Prescott Oeorge DinOloi', anu Oco.Bo
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