Nebraska advertiser., 1856-08-09
LITTELLS' LIVINGAGE
Extracts of letters from Judge Story, Chancellor
figa Kent, and President adams. $500

tItg3 Kent, and Pres5deHt adams. 1919
CAMBRIDGE, April 81, 1914.
have read the prospectus with the greatest pleas
ure; and entirely approve the plan. If it can only
obtain the public patronage long enough, and large
enough, and securely enough, to attain its true ends,
it will contribute in an eminent degree to giVe6a
healthy tone, not only to our literature but to public
oninion. It will enable us to possess. in a moderate
compass, a select library of the best productions of
the age. 1t will do more (: it will redeem our period
zeal literature from tho reproach Of being devoted to
light and superficial reading, to t~ransitory specula-
tions, to siekly and ephemeral sentimentalities and
false and extravaganza sketches of fife'and character.
n .LHW .asffT0 fAtA prs JOSEPH STORY.
sIJ rh35# New York, 7tk, 1874 f
l approve very much of the plan of the diving
Ages" and if it be conducted with the intelligence.
spirit and taste, that the prospectus indicates. fof
which | have no reason to doubt it will be one of
the most instructive and popular periodicals of the
day. .gla 6etgala Ies JAMES KENT.
WAsHNGToN, 9th Dec, 1874.
Ut all the Periodical Journals devoted to litera-
ture and science which abound in Europe, and in this
country, disappeared to me the most useful. ueon-
talns indeed the exposition only of the current liter
allure Of the English language; this, by its immense
extent and comprehension, includes a portrature of
the human mind In the utmost expansion of the pres.
ent age. .31 d9 j. O. ADAMS 81
This work is made up Of the elaborate and stately
essays of She Edinburg,' Quarterly, and other Re-
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his keen political C~0nnaentaries, highly wrought
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the sparkling Examiner the judicious Athenaunl,'
the busy and industrious literary Gazette the SEN
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respectable Christian Observer these are ~intermix-
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United Service and with the best articles of the
Dublin University New Monthly Frasers,' Taits,'
Ainsworth's;' Hoods and sporting Magazine's, and
of chambers admirable journal We do Otcon-
slider it beneath our dignity to borrow wit and wis
domfrom Punch; and when we think it good enough
make use of the thunder Of The Times We shall
increase sur variety by importations from the CONT
nent of Europe, and from the new growth of the
British Colonies. sssEEs
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