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NY. Dome Journal.-This, in our opinion, is the best publication of its kind in the world. Six dollars a year could not, by any possibility, be better expended than in the purchase of this most interesting and valuable periodical. Again. It answers, in a measure, the purpose of an Annual Register. Besides the literary treat it so punctually affords, we are pleased to find in its columns the most important articles on the political affairs of Europe, extracted from foreign and domestic journals. The pithy communications to the London Examiner, and the best descriptive letters from Americans abroad to journals at home, find a place beside the stately lucubrations of the Quarterly, and the vivacious genialities of the Magazines. Again.At this season, when the reading public are deciding upon their subscriptions to periodical literature, for the ensuing year, we feel it incumbent upon us to call special attention to "Littell's Living Age." It appears with rare punctuality, and is filled with the spice of the English journals, and the articles devoted to the prominent topics of the day; the best reviews, tales, essays, poems, and sketches. Its value is much enhanced by the judicious selections from the American press. There is no single work published which is so calculated to inform and entertain readers with the spirit of the agecritical, political, and literary. The management of the work has been highly approved by all our leading men.

American, Waterbury, Conn.-This work has so long maintained a conspicuous position in the current literature of the day, that it requires only to be known, to be valued. It is composed of a judicious selection from all the foreign periodicals of high standing, thus giving the very spirit of the whole in a small and readable compass for a comparatively small sum. The last number contains leading articles from ten different magazines, besides some eight minor selections.

N. X. Commercial Advertiser.-For miscellaneous reading, there are few if any periodicals which compete with the Living Age.

Messenger, Westfield, N. ¥.—It is a gleaning of the best articles of the foreign magazines. It is a history of the literary world from week to week. You see in it what has tickled the fancy of the Parisian within a month. The article that has been the theme of English "table talk," or that has stirred the German mind from the stagnation of its excessive abstractions to healthful vigor, within a few weeks past, is before you in the Age.

N. X. Christian Enquirer.-Rich as ever; containing the best things that have been said on the most interesting topics of the day.

Journal, Davana, N. Y.-We have received the first two January numbers of this very valuable work. Though all that we have ever owned, they are not all that we have ever read and admired. Littell's Living Age has established for itself a reputation of which its proprietors may be justly proud that of being the best reprint of sound and readable literature published in the country.

Baily Advertiser, Newark, N. J.-It reproduces in weekly instalments of some 50 pages much of the most valuable matter of the foreign periodicals, together with a general survey of the course

of matters and things at home. Its selections indi cate good taste, and among the weekly publications of the country we know of no one that has so many attractions for readers who desire to keep an eye upon the current literature of the day. It is well printed in octavo form, and paged for binding.

Gazette, Burlington, N. J.-It maintains, with unswerving interest, its very high character. The amount of choice reading which it supplies weekly, from the principal newspapers, magazines, and reviews, in this country and Europe, is really immense.

Christian Chronicle, Phila.-We sincerely pity any of our readers whose limited intellects or purses debar them from the pleasure of this weekly visitant. We should feel lost without it. It is true to its high aims, and republishes the best contributions to foreign periodical literature. A single number is oftentimes worth the annual subscription.

Family Journal, Pittsburgh, Pa.—Of all the weekly publications in the United States, Littell's Living Age stands at the head. It is an old publication; and affords to its readers the cream of all the scientific, literary, and political publications, domestic and foreign. Such a work cannot fail to meet with the approbation of every lover of science, literature, and politics.

Banner of the Cross, Phila.-This admirable collection of articles, from the best of periodicals, continues to sustain its high character. We always receive it with pleasure. There is great judgment shown in the selection of articles, so as to mingle instruction and entertainment.

Republican, Winchester, Va.-This work offers renewed attractions for the present year, containing as it does the choicest selections from the American press, and the spice of all the foreign magazines and quarterlies known to the literary world at large. To statesmen, divines, lawyers, physicians; to men of business and men of leisure; to the office and the hearth-side, it presents itself with equal interest. In this age of cheap literature, a work which girds itself firmly and resolutely against the influx of what is depraved and vicious in morals, commends a notice from a respectable and reading community, without further comment. An immoral and sensual appetite will meet with no gratification from a perusal of its pages; its aspirations seek to cater for no such depraved taste. We predict for it, from its large and invaluable collection of biography, voyages, travels, history, and other substantial matter, the popularity which it eminently deserves. That which seeks to elevate the standard of literary worth, demands encouragement; the floods of cheap and valueless productions which have deluged this country for past years, have, by working their own cure, awakened an appreciation of a better order of literature.

Christian Observer, Philadelphia.—It is one of the most interesting and valuable publications of the day. It is a literary repository, richly and amply filled with the most readable articles in the reviews and journals of Europe. Being issued every week, it keeps pace with the movements of the world, and exhibits the living, restless spirit of the age, as developed in its literature, science, commerce, politics, and in the various arts of life.

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