The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1876-12-06

LITTELLs LIVING AGE FOR 1877. The
continued and increasing success of this periodical
(now over thrty.three years odl is doubtless owing
to the fact more generally recognized every year.
that it affords the most comprehensive and Gil thng
considered the cheapest means of keeping weii-
informed in the best literature of the day. WITH ts
weekly issue, and its three and q quarter th0aSdHd
large pages of reading matter year, 1t IS enaoeu
to present with freshness and satl. factory COM
pleteness attempted by no other publication; the
ablest essays aud reviews, the choicest serial and
short Stories the interesting sketches OF travel
and discovery, the best poetry and the most Vaua,
BILE biographical, historical, scientific and political
information from the entire body OF foreign perodl'
cal literature.
In its pages are represented such eminent authors
as Prof Max Muller, Prof Tyndall, Ri Hon. w.
E. Gladstone, DR.. W. B. Carpenter, Prot Huxley,
Richard A. Proctor, Frances Power Cobbe, The
Duke of Argyll, Jas A. troude, Mrs. Muloch, Mrs.
Ohphant Mrs. Alexander Miss Thackeray, Jean
IngelOw, Geo. Macdonald, Vim. Black, Matthew
Arnold, Henry Kingsley, W. W. Story, Aueroach,
Ruskin, Carlyle, Tennysou, Browning, and many
other leaders in science fiction, history, biography,
philosophy, poetry theology, politics, criticism and
art.
1t is, in short, a thorough compilation Of an inds'
pensable current literature Indispensable because
it EN- braces the work OF the foremost writers upon
al topics of living interest," and as such, its import
ance and convenience to every American reader can
hardly be over-estimated. 1t has always ranked
as chief among the ecectics, giving an amount OF
reading unapprosched by any other Magazine; it
has absorbed ITS competitor 'Euery Saturdays" and
in the multiplicity of periodicals. hardly be dis
peused with by any person or family desiring salts
factory compendium of whatever is of immediate
interest or permanent value in the literary world
The subscription price (SS year J is cheap for
the amount of reading furnshed; while tor those
desiring the cream of both home and foreign ltera-
ture the publishers make still cheaper offer, VIZ
to send, postpaid, The Lining Age and either one OF
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our leading American monthhes, subscriber will,
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An extra offer, also, is made to all new subScrib-
ers for 1877. viz to send them gratis the six NUN.
bers of 1876, containing, besides other valuable
reading. the first instaments OF new and unusually
powerful serial story by George Macdonald now ap'
pearlng in The Lining Age from advance sheets.
The volume begins January 1st and we recon-
mend the periodical to the attention Of our readers.
We know of no other way in which so much OF the
best work of the best minds OF toe time can be OBJ
tanned so cheaply and conveniently as through this
standard weekly magazine. Published by LITTEII
GAY, Boston.
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taken. Address Col. s. Bassett French, Richmond,
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