Literary Notes

LüteU't Living Age. The numbers of The Living Age for Ootober 24th and 3l8t contain The New Kmperor and bis New Chancellor, National Keview; A Yellow Rose, Argosy; Modern Astronomy, Centemporary Review; Wayfaring in the Quercy .Temple Bar; Anionast the Cage-Dwellers, Murray's Magazine; The Battle ofCopenhagen: aDanish Acconnt, Cornhill Magazine; The Humor of Baccarat, Macmillan's Magazine; Kunice: a Riistic Idyl, Chambere' Journal; Lowell in his Poetry, Fortnightly ReTÏew; Detected Culprits, Cornhill Magazine; Science and Society in the Fifties, Temple Kar; Two Jealousies, Englieh lllustrated Magazine; A War CorreEpondent'e Reminiscences, by Archibald Forbes, Nineteenth Century; Victoria Coloiina, Belgravia; Temper, Murray's Magazine; R. S. V. P., Temple Bar; and poetry aml mipcellany. - Littell fc Co., Boston. 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It is proposedto publish aseries of articles, upon a scale not before attempted, giving the resulta of special study and work among the poor of the great cities. The plan will include an account of the conditions ot life in those cities (in znany lands) where the results of research will be helpful for purposes of comparison as frell as for their own intrinsic interest. Washington Allston. Unpublished Reminiscences and Letters of this foremoet among early American painters. A number of illustrations will lend additional interest to the articles. Important Momenta. The aim of this series of very short articles ia to describe the Bignal occasions when some decisive event took place, or when some great experiment was first shown to be successful- such moments as that of the first use of the Atlantic cable, the flrst use of the telegraph and telephone, the first successful experiment with either, the nigVt of the Chicago fire, the scène at the moment of the vote on the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, etc, etc. Out ol Door Papers. In tbe early spring will be begun a number of eeasonable articles, among them being: Small Country Places, how to lay out, and beautify them, by Samuel Parsons, jr. Fishing Lore from an Angler'a Note-Book, by Dr. Leroy M. Yale. Mountain Station Life in New Zealand, by Sidney Dickinson. Racing in Australia, by Sidney Dickinson, with illustrationa by Birge Harrison. a full prospectus appears in the Holiday number, now ready. Price, 25 cents. $3.00 a year. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Littell' e Living Age. As the Living Age approaches its jubilee, it is interesting to recall the prophecy made concerning it by Mr. Justice Story upon reading the prospectus in April, 1844. He then said: "I entirely approve the plan. Ifit eau obtain the public patronage long enough, it will contribute in an eminent degree to give a healthy tone, not only to our literature, but to public opinión. It will enable us to possess, in a moderate compase, a select library of the best productions of the age. A weekly magazine, it gives more tban three and a quarter thousand double-column octavo pages of matter yeerly, forming four Urge volumes. It presente in an inexpeneive form, considering its great amount of matter, with freshness, owing to its weekly issue, and with a completeness nowhere else attempted.the bestEssayf, Reviews, Criticisins, Tales, Sketches of Travel and Discovery, Poetry.Scientific, Biographical, Historical, and Politica! Information, from the entiie body of Foreign Periodical Literature. It is therefore invaluabla to every American reader, as the only satisfactorily fresh and cr.mplete compilation of an indispensable current literature, - indispensable because it embraces the productions of the ablest living writers in all branches of Literature, Science, Politics, and Art. "If a cnltured stranger froru another world were to find himeelf in this one, and were to make a study of our literary advantages, he wonld be imprecsed especially, we are confident, by the abundance.variety and high average quality of the contents of LittelPs Living Age" The Congregationaliet, Boston. "It contains nearly all the good lilerature of the time."- The Churchman, New York. "He who subscribes for a few years to it gathers a choice library even though he may have no other books." New York Observer. ' The flelds of liction, biographyj travel, science, poetry, criticism, and social and religious discussion all come within its domain." - Boston Journal. 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