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 chatf "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 VIII. JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH, 1855. LITTELL, SON AND COMPANY: BOSTON. J. D. FLAGG, STEREOTYPER AND PRINTER, ANDOVER, MASS. TO THE READER. We are very glad to find so general an expression of the satisfaction of our subscribers at receiving the sixteen additional pages in each number. There are in this Volume two hundred pages more than in the last. Among the longer and graver articles, we have been especially pleased with— A very great increase of literary and political matter is given from The Times, Spectator, Examiner, and Economist. The quantity of matter in the Living Age is equal to that in the whole of the following for a year : EDINBURGH REVIEW, WESTMINSTER REVIEW, NORTH BRITISH REVIEW, There is no magazine published in the country which contains more than about half the matter of the Living Age. The cost of the work is so great, that we really need the helping hands of such subscribers as are pleased and satisfied with it, to promote its circulation among their neighbors. The success of a work does not depend so much on its merits as on the zeal with which it is urged upon the public by the publisher. The Living Age has had no advantage of this kind. We have not liked to fill the papers with statements, that " on account of the immense demand we have been obliged to postpone the publication!" That "the mails from all parts of the country were bringing so many orders to us, that when they were about fifty miles from Boston they were locked together in a great circle, so that they could get no nearer, till the line was fortunately broken by an earthquake and volcano, which gave some of them a sufficient start to get out of the way of the others; the bank notes of those which were blown up falling in a steady shower down our chimney for three weeks!" On the contrary, we promise, and are really able, to supply punctually and promptly all orders with which we may be favored. |