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LITTELL' LIVING AGE.
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Il Museum of Foreign Literature, (Which was
iayorably received by the public fer twenty years)
but as IT is twice as large, and appears oen VIC
not only give spirit and freshness to it by many
things which were excluded by q months delay,
but while thus extending our scope, and gathering
greater and more attractive variety, are able so
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satisfy the wants of the American reader.
The elaborate and stately Essays of the EdiE
burgh, Quarterly, and other Reviews; and Black
woods noble criticismson Poetry. his keen political
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prehensive Britannia, the sober and respectable
Christian Observer; these are intermixed with the
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Service, and with the best articles Of the Dublin
University, New Monthly, Frasers, Tait's, Aims
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Chambers's admirable Journal. We do not cor .
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enough, make use of the thunder of The Times.
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the continent of Europe, and from che new growth
of the British colonies.
The steamship has brought Europe, Asia, and
Africa into our neighborhood, and will greatly
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and politicians with all parts of the world that.
hgent American to be informed 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 sess of ofchange, to some new
rtate ofthings which the merely political prophet
cannot compute or foresee.
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