OFFICE OF THE LIVING AGE, 30 Bromfield St., Boston.

READING FOR THE SOLDIERS AND SAILORS.

THE LIVING AGE, being easily held in a Sick man's hand, or, taking little room in a Knapsack or Chest-is in a convenient form for the use of Hospitals, or for men in active service on Land or at Sea. And as it is full of fresh and living matter, nothing could be better for refreshment and recreation, for people who have so few opportunities for either, as our Soldiers and Sailors.

The wants of the Sick and Wounded early engaged our attention, and we have received remittances for additional copies of the work to be sent to the Hospitals in Washington and elsewhere. Chaplains of any of the Regiments would be glad to receive and distribute the numbers. All orders to this effector for parcels to be sent to sea, we shall be glad to attend to. Relatives and friends of Volunteers can hardly gratify them more than by sending the work to them every week. Subscriptions for this will be carefully attended to, and the numbers forwarded free of postage.

What has been said above, of the convenience of the numbers of The Living Age, for our Soldiers and Sailors-Sick or Well-will also apply to the following list of Tales reprinted from The Living Age,—which will be sent free of postage :

The Woman I Loved, and The Woman who | Feats on the Fiord,

25 cents.

Booksellers and Dealers in Periodicals, at Watering-places and anywhere else, would find it to their interest to keep on hand a supply of these salable works.

A. D. F. Randolph, 683 Broadway, New York, will be glad to receive subscriptions and orders for The Living Age.

The LAST VOLUME of The Living Age is now bound in cloth-and will be exchanged for the numbers of the same, in good order, at a cost of binding of 50 cents.

Any back Volumes, or Numbers, of The Living Age can be supplied from this office. A few complete Sets are yet on hand.

The Second Series, twenty volumes, is for sale.

Orders from the Trade will be promptly supplied by SINCLAIR TOUSEY, New York, and W. B. ZIEBER, Philadelphia; as also by the Publishers,

LITTELL, SON & COMPANY, BOSTON.

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. Littell 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.

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 re cede from past years, we find it delightful t have the means of recalling them. who have full sets of The Edinburgh Review, Out of so wide a field to select with taste The Quarterly, and who can read the articles and good judgment, requires a talent, in its which were written upon the appearance of way, quite as rare as that which produces a Byron's poems, Scott's, Crabbe's, the Waverley brilliant article. Every plodder cannot select Novels, etc., know how deeply interesting wisely. It demands great industry, multifa- that contemporaneous criticism becomes with rious reading, a nicety of taste and tact, which every year that lengthens the period between are none the less praiseworthy because so few us and it. But we must not trespass upon think to praise them. Readers are an un- the space, further, in this busy week. And grateful set. They seldom think of their ob- we perform but a duty, while it is a pleasure, ligations to those who prepare for them the in saying that we congratulate him who has, endless treasure of the printed page. They and pity him who has not, upon his shelves seem to think that an author or compiler the now almost little library-Littell's Living should be grateful and satisfied if they only | Age.

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