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Such a purlast sixteen years is reproduced in this library, chase would prove a good investment for any with such general discrimination of judgment, head of a family. such good taste in selection and arrangement, library in themselves. The volumes form. a little such variety of topic and of treatment, that as in them, and they fur nish an invaluable resource There is a great variety you open volume after volume and trace their for rainy days or the languid hours of sickness, weekly contents, you unroll a consecutive pano- when we cannot reaci steadily and continuously. rams of the Living Age of politics, literature, There is not a page in the whole series which a philosophy, science, and art. It is a well-stored father need hesitate to put into the hands of his magazine of information and opinions, drawn children. - G. S. Hillard in Boston Courier. from the best sources, and always at command. If, for example, you would recall the political THE LIVING AGE. - How appropriate this phases of Europe in 1848-9, you find them all title for a periodical whose pages give the measphotographed from week to week upon these are of the life-mirid of the age in which we live, faithful pages; and not only so, you learn also its thoughts, its deeds, its scientific and literary what The Edinburgh, The Westminster, The Ex-progress, its hopes and its imaginings! We can aminer, The Quarterly, and a multitude of lesser periodicals, pronounced upon passing events which are now matters of history. With the maturity of experience you go back and review these events as they actually appeared to near observers at the time; thus correcting their judgments, or fortifying your own by revived impres sions. apposite to the present time and the cravings of all devout Christians for the conversion of the hundred and eighty millions of the people of The Hindostan. The number terminates -- and we not speak of its rejuvenation, for when was it old! It maintains all its original vigor and va riety, and furnishes food for all tastes and appetencies, as well as powers of mental digestion. Apropos of this gurative comparison of ours, the last number (727) opens with an excellent article from Blackwood's Magazine, on " Food and Drink." This is followed by an amusing But it is not merely or even mainly in polit-story of a new phase of school-life, under the ical affairs that you find these volumes valuable title of "Quee'a Stork," to which succeeds an chroniclers of the times. Questions in philoso-article on " Charistianity and Hinduism," most phy, literature, art, discussions on critical or theological points- as, for example, " Demoniacal Possessions," the "Text of the Septua gint," the "Mosaic Narrative of the Creation " are here embodied as an index of the thought and spirit of the times; while stories and poems reflect the prevailing tone of belles-lettres, and afford diversion and entertainment in lighter hours. Nor is it simply or mainly for reference that these volumes, now grown to a library, are to be prized. They are educators. They abound in earnest, strong, invigorating thought. They stimulate One of the very best publications in this counthe mind of the reader by bringing it into con- try is the Living Age. It has stood the test of tact with the minds of the most vigorous writers time, and while numberless magazines and rein the periodical literature of the times. No one views have sprung up and died, this periodical can read, from week to week, the selections has lived on, growing lustier with age. The brought before him in The Living Age, without choicent articles from the foreign reviews and becoming conscious of a quickening of his own magazines may be found in its pages; in fact, faculties, and an enlargement of his mental ho it gives us the very cream of English literature, rizon. Few private libraries, of course, can no while at the same time it devotes a large space to secure the back volumes, sets of which are lim-American literature, science, art, and progress ited and costly. Bat public libraries in towns and villages ought if possible to be furnished with such a treasury of good reading, and individuals may begin as subscribers for the new series, and thus keep pace in future with the age in which they live. - Independent. We have taken this work from the beginning, that is, from April, 1844, and we have read it - Colonization Herald. The matter always to be found in its ample pages is of a character that will bear perusal again and again. It is of permanent value and interest; and we do not know of any work that would forën a finer library than the sixty volumes which we believe have been issued since its commencemeat. MR. LITTELL, the founder of the work, still presides over its selections and arrangement - a veteran in the service. Chronicle, Augusta, Ga. Published, free of Postage, at Six Dollars a year, by Littell, Son, & Co., Boston. 7 From the Independent. A "Star paper" by the buy and admire. But there is for nobler Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. LITTELL'S LIVING AGE. SINCE the days of The Gentleman's Magazine, and the pet Spectators, Ramblers, Idlers and Adventurers, what an advance has been made! There are more books than ever before, and as good ones; the quarterlies are but books jointly composed by several co-operating authors, and contain papers, often, which represent the ripe results of a whole lifetime's experience or reflection in every department of learning. The monthlies, if less stately, are hardly less able; and all this is without prejudice to the weekly and daily newspapers, which command some of the best thinkers and writers in England and America. It was a happy thought, to select from this wide range of matter the best articles in every department, and by bringing them together in a new work, to give to the people at a very moderate sum, the cream of a hundred different inaccessible and expensive magazines and papers. But this Mr. Littell has done, and done so well as to have deserved and earned for himself the thanks and esteem of all grateful readers. Our readers have doubtless seen the stereoscopic boxes which contain from twenty-five to a hundred plates, which, revolving, come up in succession before the eye and present living pictures from every part of the world. This is just what Mr. Litteil does for us in literary matters. His Living Age is a stereoscopic series of the learned and literary doings of the world. It comes every week with a new set of pictures, reflecting every side of the writing world, scientific, philosophical, historic, didactic, critical, statistical, poetic; narrative, biography, stories-in short, every thing except stupid goodness and smart immorality. Out of so wide a field to select with taste and good judgment, requires a talent, in its way, quite as rare as that which produces a brilliant article. Every plodder cannot select wisely. It demands great industry, multifarious reading, a nicety of taste and tact, which are none the less praiseworthy because so few think to praise them. Readers are an ungrateful set. They seldom think of their obligations to those who prepare for them the endless treasure of the printed page. They seem to think that an author or compiler should be grateful and satisfied if they only natures a payment in coin less gross but more precious. If we were to express the sense of love and gratitude which we feel to the authors that have companied with us, first as teachers, and since as reverend companions, we should scarcely find words or space for the fulness of the offering! We love to cherish a sense of unpayable obligation to great hearts. And there is no man who performs the humblest service in the realm of learning and literature, who has not a right to the honors and gratitude of benefactor. Mr. Littell is not pursuing a new or recent thing. As long ago as 1836 we became subscribers to the Museum, a work similar to The Living Age, published monthly at Philadelphia. This was the beginning of a second series. We know not when the first one began. What a period between 1836 and 1859! And what a treasure is a consecutive series of volumes made up of the best matter which has appeared in that long period of more than twenty years! Of The Living Age we have a complete set upon our shelves, and we find it universally popular and useful. For invalids, on whose hands time hangs heavily, and whose capricious taste every day needs some new resource, these bound volumes must be invaluable. For those who resort to the country in summer, and wish an abundance of miscellaneous reading; for long voyages: for those who love to go back to other years and read of events which now are histories, but then were transpiring, we can cordially commend this unfailingly interesting series. Every year they grow more interesting, not only by the progressive contents, but because as we recede from past years, we find it delightful to have the means of recalling them. Those who have full sets of The Edinburgh Review, The Quarterly, and who can read the articles which were written upon the appearance of Byron's poems, Scott's, Crabbe's, the Waverley Novels, etc., know how deeply interesting that contemporaneous criticism becomes with every year that lengthens the period between us and it. But we must not trespass upon the space, further, in this busy week. And we perform but a duty, while it is a pleasure, in saying that we congratulate him who has, and pity him who has not, upon his shelves the now almost little library-Littell's Living Age. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY LITTELL, SON, & CO., BOSTON. For Six Dollars a year, remitted directly to the Publishers, the LIVING AGE will be punctually forwarded free of postage. |