LIVING AGE. 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 FIFTH SERIES, VOLUME XLIX. FROM THE BEGINNING, VOL. CLXIV. JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH. 1885. BOSTON: LITTELL AND CO. TABLE OF THE PRINCIPAL CONTENTS Secret Papers of the Second Empire, 515 The Battle of Otterburn, Spenser as a Philosophic Poet, English Character and Manners as Por. The Liberal Movement in English Litera- Della Crusca and Anna Matilda : an Epi. Prince Bismarck, 674 820 BLACKWood's MAGAZINE. 47, 118 | The Portrait. A Story of the Seen and Ancient Palestine and Modern Explora- 131 Within his Danger : a Tale from the The Crown of Thorns that Budded, 231 Chinese, 395 From Siberia to Switzerland; the Story On some of Shakespeare's Female Char. The Colonial Moveinent in Germany, 310 Plain Frances Mowbray, 425 Coleridge as a Spiritual Thinker, English Songs, Ancient and Modern, 3 The Black Death in East Anglia, 259 | The Home Life of a Court Lady, |