LITTELL'S LIVING AGE. N 1886 THE LIVING AGE enters upon its forty-third year. It has met with the constant commendation of the leading men and journals of the country, and with uninterrupted success. A WEEKLY MAGAZINE, it gives fifty-two numbers of sixty-four pages each, or more than Three and a Quarter Thousand doublecolumn octavo pages of reading-matter yearly. It presents in an inexpensive form, considering its great amount of matter, with freshness, owing to its weekly issue, and with a completeness nowhere else attempted, The best Essays, Reviews, Criticisms, Serial and Short Stories, Sketches of Travel and Discovery, Poetry, Scientific, Biographical, Historical, and Political Information, from the entire body of Foreign Periodical Literature, and from the pens of The Foremost Living Writers. 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