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LITTELL'S LIVING AGE.

PROSPECTUS.-This work is conducted in the spirit of Littell's Museum of Foreign Literature, (which was favorably received by the public for twenty years,) but as it is twice as large, and appears so often, we not only give spirit and freshness to it by many things which were excluded by a month's delay, but while thus extending our scope and gathering a greater and more attractive variety, are able so to increase the solid and substantial part of our literary, historical, and political harvest, as fully to satisfy the wants of the American reader.

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, and vivid descriptions of rural and mountain Scenery; and the contributions to Literature, History, and Common Life, by the sagacious Spectator, the sparkling Examiner, the judicious Athenæum, the busy and industrious Literary Gazette, the sensible and comprehensive Britannia, the sober and respectable Christian Observer; these are intermixed with the Military and Naval reminiscences of the United Service, and with the best articles of the Dublin University, New Monthly, Fraser's, Tait's, Ainsworth's, Hood's, and Sporting Magazines, and of Chambers' admirable Journal. We do not consider it beneath our dignity to borrow wit and wisdom from Punch; and, when we think it good enough, make use of the thunder of The Times. We shall increase our variety by importations from the continent of Europe, and from the new growth of the British colonies.

The steamship has brought Europe, Asia, and Africa, into our neighborhood; and will greatly multiply our connections, as Merchants, Travellers, and Politicians, with all parts of the world'; so that much more than ever it

TERMS.-The LIVING AGE is published every Saturday, by E. LITTELL & Co., corner of Tremont and Bromfield sts., Boston; Price 123 cents a number, or six dollars a year in advance. Remittances for any period will be thankfully received and promptly attended to. To insure regularity in mailing the work, orders should be addressed to the office of publication, as above. Clubs, paying a year in advance, will be supplied as follows:

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Complete sets, in twenty-four volumes, to the end of March, 1850, handsomely bound, packed in neat boxes, and delivered in all the principal cities, free of expense of freight, are for sale at forty-eight dollars.

Any volume may be had separately at two dollars, bound, or a dollar and a half in numbers.

Any number may be had for 12 cents; and it may be worth while for subscribers or purchasers to complete any broken volumes they may have, and thus greatly enhance their value.

Binding. We bind the work in a uniform, strong, and good style; and where customers bring their numbers in good order, can generally give them bound volumes in exchange without any delay. The price of the binding is 50 cents a volume. As they are always bound to one pattern, there will be no difficulty in matching the future volumes.

now becomes every intelligent American to be
of the condition and changes of foreign countra
this not only because of their nearer connection
selves, but because the nations seem to be ha
through a rapid process of change, to some newi
things, which the merely political prophet cannot
or foresee.

Geographical Discoveries, the progress of Colo (which is extending over the whole world,) and and Travels, will be favorite matter for our sel and, in general, we shall systematically and v acquaint our readers with the great department of affairs, without entirely neglecting our own.

While we aspire to make the Living Age dest all who wish to keep themselves informed of t progress of the movement-to Statesmen, Diving yers, and Physicians-to men of business and leisure-it is still a stronger object to make it and useful to their Wives and Children. We be we can thus do some good in our day and ge and hope to make the work indispensable in e informed family. We say indispensable, becaus day of cheap literature it is not possible to guari the influx of what is bad in taste and vicious in any other way than by furnishing a sufficient s a healthy character. The mental and moral must be gratified.

We hope that, by "winnowing the wheat chaff," by providing abundantly for the imaginat by a large collection of Biography, Voyages, and History, and more solid matter, we may produce which shall be popular, while at the same time aspire to raise the standard of public taste.

Agencies. We are desirous of making arrang in all parts of North America, for increasing the tion of this work-and for doing this a liberal com will be allowed to gentlemen who will interest the in the business. And we will gladly correspond subject with any agent who will send us undoubted

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A newspaper is "any printed publication, is numbers, consisting of not more than two she published at short, stated intervals of not more month, conveying intelligence of passing events.

Monthly parts.-For such as prefer it in that f Living Age is put up in monthly parts, containing five weekly numbers. In this shape it shows advantage in comparison with other works, conta each part double the matter of any of the guard But we recommend the weekly numbers as fresk fuller of life. Postage on the monthly parts is cents. The volumes are published quarterly, each containing as much matter as a quarterly review 50 eighteen months. E. LITTELL & CO., Bost

WASHINGTON, 27 Dec.

Or all the Periodical Journals devoted to literature and science hich abound in Europe and in this coun has appeared to me the most useful. It contains indeed the exposition only of the current literature of the language, but this, by its immense extent and comprehension, includes a portraiture of the human mind in the expansion of the present age. J. Q. ADA

WORKS PUBLISHED AT THE OFFICE OF THE LIVING A THE STORY OF A FAMILY, by the Author of "The Maiden Aunt"-25 C THE MAIDEN AND MARRIED LIFE OF MARY POWELL MILTON-12 Cert FEATS ON THE FIORD, A Story of Norway, by Miss Martineau 25 Cents. THE MAIN AUNT, by S. M.- 25 Cents.

THE MODERN VASSALA Story of Poland - 25 Cents.

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5. Mystini ozyli Caloksrtall Loiki Narodowe of Thinking, or System of National Logic. By the Pozen, 1844. 2 vols.

6. Urywki Polityorne. [Political Fragments.] Pa 1845. 1 vol. 8vo.

THE Polish nation possessed, during a thousand years, a larger country than modern France, between the Baltic, the Black Sea, and the Carpathian Mountains. There civilization and learning flourished brighter than elsewhere, in the 15th and 16th centuries, under the free institutions and wise government of the Jagellon dynasty. They sheltered, by their protective shield, numerous families which were persecuted, on account of religious and political freedom, in the rest of Europe. They served as a bulwark against the frequent encroachments of the Asiatic hordes, while Europe wanted to organize herself and develop her civilization and military power. This Polish nation exists no more as a body politic. 37

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MASSACHUSETTS QUARTERLY REVIEW.

NO. XI.-JUNE, 1850.

ARTICLE I.-ON THE NEW TENDENCY OF THE POLISH-SLAVONIAN PHILOSOPHY.

1. Grundlage der Universellen Philosophie. [Principles of the Universal Philosophy. By Bronislas Ferdinand.] Karlsruhe, 1837. 1 vol. 8vo.

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2. Norstudien zur Wissenchaft der Natur. Trentowski. [Introduction to the Studies of Natural Sciences.] Leipzig, 1840. 2 vols. 8vo.

3. Chowanna ezyli System Pedagogiki Narodowej. [Education, or System of National Pedagogy. By the same.] Pozen, 1842. 4 vols. 8vo.

4. Aforyzmy o Matzeristwie. [Aphorisms about Marriage.] Pozen, 1842. 1 vol. 8vo.

5. Mystini ozyli Caloksrtall Loiki Narodowej. [Art of Thinking, or System of National Logic. By the same.] Pozen, 1844. 2 vols.

6. Urywki Polityorne. [Political Fragments.] Paris, 1845. 1 vol. 8vo.

THE Polish nation possessed, during a thousand years, a larger country than modern France, between the Baltic, the Black Sea, and the Carpathian Mountains. There civilization and learning flourished brighter than elsewhere, in the 15th and 16th centuries, under the free institutions and wise government of the Jagellon dynasty. They sheltered, by their protective shield, numerous families which were persecuted, on account of religious and political freedom, in the rest of Europe. They served as a bulwark against the frequent encroachments of the Asiatic hordes, while Europe wanted to organize herself and develop her civilization and military power. This Polish nation exists no more as a body politic.

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