LITTELL'S LIVING AGE. PROSPECTUS. This work is conducted in the spirit of Littell's so that much more than ever it now becomes Museum of Foreign Literature, (which was fa- every intelligent American to be informed of the vorably received by the public for twenty years,) condition and changes of foreign countries. And but as it is twice as large, and appears so often, this not only because of their nearer connection we not only give spirit and freshness to it by with ourselves, but because the nations seem to many things which were excluded by a month's be hastening through a rapid process of change, delay, but while thus extending our scope and to some new state of things, which the merely gathering a greater and more attractive variety, political prophet cannot compute or foresee. are able so to increase the solid and substantial Geographical Discoveries, the progress of Colopart of our literary, historical, and political har-nization, (which is extending over the whole vest, as fully to satisfy the wants of the Ameri-world,) and Voyages and Travels, will be favorcan reader. ite matter for our selection: and, in general, we shall systematically and very fully acquaint our readers with the great department of Foreign affairs, without entirely neglecting our own. The elaborate and stately Essays of the Edinburgh, Quarterly, and other Reviews; and Blackwood's noble criticisms on Poetry, his keen political Commentaries, highly wrought Tales, While we aspire to make the Living Age deand vivid descriptions of rural and mountain sirable to all who wish to keep themselves inScenery; and the contributions to Literature, formed of the rapid progress of the movement— History, and Common Life, by the sagacious to Statesmen, Divines, Lawyers, and PhysiSpectator, the sparkling Examiner, the judicious cians-to men of business and men of leisureAthenæum, the busy and industrious Literary Ga-it is still a stronger object to make it attractive zette, the sensible and comprehensive Britannia, and useful to their Wives and Children. 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