Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-12-13
Litsell's Lying Age for 1876.

In no other way can so much Of the best work
OF the best minds of the time be obtained 60
oheaply or conveniently as through this stand
ard eclectic weekly.
In 1875 it enters upon its thirty-third year,
having met with continued and increasing success
and being now, since it's absorption Of "Euery
saturday, practically without rivalin its field
With its weekly issue, and it's three and a quar-
Ter thousand large pages OF reading matter
year, itia enabled to tpresent with freshness
and satisfactory completeness, attempted by no
other publication, the ablest essays and reviews,
me choicest serial and short stories, the most
interesting sketches of travel and discovery the
best poetry, and the most valuable biographical,
historical, scientific and political information
from the entire body Of foreign periodical liter
ature 1t would be difficult, therefore, to over
estimate Its Importance to American readers as
the only thorough compilation of an indispensa-
pie current literature, indispensable, because
1t embraces the productions of the foremost
writer's In science. fiction, history, biography,
theology, philosophy, politics. criticism and art.
Such distinguished authors as Hon. W. q.
Gladstone, Prof. Max Muller, Prof. Huxley DR..
w. B. Carpenter, Prof. Tyndall, II. A. Proctor.
The Duke Of Argyll, Edward A. Freeman, Fran.
oes Power Oobbe, Jas. Anthony Froude, Mrs.
Muloch, Mrs. Oliphant, Miss Thackeray, Jaan
lngelow, Geo. Macdonald. Thomas Hardy, VIM.
Black, Anthony Trollope, R. D. Blackmore. Mrs.
Parr, Julla Kavanagh, Mrs. Macquod, Matthew
Arnold, Henry Kingsley, Thomas Carlyle, F. W.
ANe"~.IJ We ". OtoIy, noDerD bucnGnan, len
nyson, Browning, etc. etc., are represented In
its pages and during the coming year, besides
the best fiction by the leading foreign novelist,
1t will give the usual amount, unapproached by
any other periodical of the most Important liter
ary and scientific matter of the day. from the
pens OF the above named and many other abIest
living contributors to current literature.
Ihs Lining Age has always stood sat the head
OF Its class" not only as the best, but all things
considered. the cheapest of the eclectics; and In
the multiplicity Of quarterlies, monthles ard
Weeklies it has become almost necessity to
every person or family of intelligence and taste;
Tor 1t, alone, furnishes such compendium of
Whatever is Of immediate interest or permanent
value in the literary world as to render 1t an in
valuable economizer of time, labor and money.
The subscription price (S8 a year, is cheap
for the amount Of reading furnished or for
those desiring the cream Of both home and for
eiRn literature, the publishers make a still
cheaper oher viz to send (postdge prepaid on
both periodically The Living Age and either one
of the American 81 monthlies, or weekles,
year for $10.50. With The LiSing Age and one
or other Of our leading American monthliss, a
subscriber will at remarkably small cost, be in
possession Of the best which the current litera-
ture of the world affords.
The volume begins Jan. 1st, and to new SUBJ
scrber remitting now, the publishers 0ittell 4
Gay. Boaton) offer to send the intervening num-
bers gratis.