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A New VOLUME. LitteHs Living Age enters
upon its one hundred and forty eighth volume
In January.
Foreign periodical literature embraces more
thoroughly every year the work of the fore
most writers in all departments of literature,
science, politics and art; and The Living Age,
which gives in convenient form the best of the
literature, can therefore hardly fail to become
of more and more value every year to its read
ers.
The first weekly number of the new year and
new volume-a good one with which to begin a
subscription-has the following table of CON
tents:-Village Life in New England, by a
Non resident American, Contemporary Revieao ;
The Marshal Duke of Saldanha, Quarterly
ReUew; Lyme Regis; A Splinter of Petrifed
History, COrnhiH; My Holiday in Jamaica,
Chambers Journal; The Photophone Specta,
Alexander Cockburn Spectator; and variety
of select poetry. For ffty-two numbers of
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pages year,, the subscription price ($8) is low ;
while for $1,000 the publishers offer to send any
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The ;Ltving Age for year, both postpaid.
] Littell Co., Boston, are the publishers
SoUTHERN HISTORICAL SOCIETY PAPERS for Oc-
tober, November, and December. Contents
Tenth Annual Reunion of the Virginia Di-
vision Army ofNorthern Virginia Association
Address of Major H. B. Mcclellan, of Licking
ton, KY, on the Llfe Campaigns and Character
of Gen. ]. E. B. Stuart; Facts Connected with
the Concentration of the Army of the Mississippi
before Shiloh, April, 1862; Cleburne and his
Division at Missionary Ridge and Ringgold
Gap; Defence of Battery Gregg; History of
Lanes North Carolina Brigade; Origin of the
Confederate Battle Flag; Lookout Valley, Oc-
tober rs. 1858; A Tribute to the Army of Ten
nessee Second Manassas, ETC., etc., ETC.
Rev. j. William Jones' D. D., Secretary, Rich
mond, Va.
ST. NICHOLAS for January. Contents:
Frontispiece-" freight Phantoms" The
Wrong Promise; One Of his Names Going
Home for the Holidays; The Children's Fan
Brigade Out of Style; Stories of Art and Ar
lists; Handel; How the Aristocrats Sailed
Away The First Tooth Fire-light Phantoms
In Natures Wonderland; The Thing a ma-iig ;
The King of France and Four Thousand
Mem; Every Boy his Own boat New
Years Day Phaeton Rogers; Nedawi; Brier-
Rose a Snow Battle; A Dear Little Girl of
Nantucket; New Years Calls Mystery in a
Mansion; For Very Little Folk; Jack-in the
Pulpit The Letter Box !; The Riddle Box.
Scribner & Co., publisher, New York
ScRIBNER's MAGAZINE for January. Con-
tents:
Peter the Great as Ruler and Reformer The
London Theatres; The Expensive Treat of Col.
Moses Grice; In Albania with the Ghegs Jean
Francois MIllet-Peasant and Painter; Tiger
Lily My Neighbours Confession Recollections
of American Society; The Charcoal Burner
Glimpses of Partisan Art A Christmas HYMN
Welsh Fairs; Christmas Song; The Bible So.
ciety and the New Revision The Battle Of
Waterloo Encored Topics of the Time; Home
and Society Culture and Progress The Worlds
Work Brio a. rac
Scrlbner & Co.. publishers, New York.
WIDE AWAKE for January. Contents:
Frontispiece-The Piper sounded one clear
sharp Note; The Children OF the Koppenberg
A Tale of Comet; On Christ-day Night; Rocky
Fork Twelve o'clock, and Ais Well; Two
Chapters of History; The Silken Shoe Uncle
Toms Mince Pie Story; Christmas with Grand
pa Longlegs Christmas Carol How Dot Heard
the Messiah" The Silent Children Waiting a
Winters Tale; The Story of Honor Bright Pol
Iy Cologne The Centipede's Dilemma, ETC., etc
D. Lothrop & Co., publishers. Boston, Mass.
CONTEMPORARY REVIEW for December. Con.
tents:
The Unity of Nature, by the Duke of Argyll
Poets Corner; Young Bengal at Home; Prof
Green as Critic; Nihilism in Russia Village
Life in New England What is the House Of
Lords? An Autumn Ramble The Land League
and its Work China and its Foreign Relations
DR.. Pusey on Everlasting Punishment; "Tht
Black Robe by Wilkie Collins
New York George Munro, publisher.
The NINETEENTH CENTURY for December. Con
tents
The Irish Crisis; Explosions in Galleries. and
their Cure Music and the People South Africa
The Chase-Its History and Laws; Buddhism
ana the New Testament Earl Russell durino
the Eastern Question The Sculptures of Olvrn=
pa The Probable Results of the Burials Bill
Parliamentary Obstruction and its RemaJies
Black
New York George Munro, publisher.
ANNUAL REPoBT Of the Western I.unatic Asv
lum Of Virginia for 1S79-8O. Richmond. JSs
=. Goods There are 40 patients in the Asy
L1TTELL's LIVING AGE for the weeks ENDING
December 18th and 25th.
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