LIVING AGE.

CONDUCTED BY E. LITTELL.

E PLURIBUS UNUM.

"These publications of the day should from time to time be winnowed, the wheat carefully preserved, and the
chaff thrown away.”

"Made up of every creature's best."

"Various, that the mind-

Of desultory man, studious of change
And pleased with novelty, may be indulged."

SECOND SERIES, VOLUME XX.

FROM THE BEGINNING, VOLUME LVI.

JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH,

1858.

LITTELL, SON AND COMPANY:

BOSTON.

(COWLES AND COMPANY, STEREOTYPERS, 17 WASHINGTON STREET.)

TABLE OF THE PRINCIPAL CONTENTS

OF

THE LIVING AGE, VOLUME LVI.

THE TWENTIETH QUARTERLY VOLUME OF THE SECOND SERIES.