PROF. MAX MULLER, PROF. TYNDALL, PROF. HUXLEY, LORD LYTTON, FRITZ REUTER, MRS. OLIPHANT, DR. W. B. CARPENTER, C. KINGSLEY, ERCKMAN-CHATRIAN, IVAN TURGUENIEFF, MATTHEW ARNOLD, W. E. H. LECKY, MISS THACKERAY, MISS MULOCH, RICHARD A. PROCTOR, KATHARINE C. MACQUOID, JEAN INGELOW, GEO. MACDONALD, FROUDE, AND GLADSTONE, are some of the eminent authors lately represented in the pages of LITTEL'S LIVING LIVING AGE. A weekly magazine of sixty-four pages, "The Living Age" gives more than THREE AND A QUARTER THOUSAND double-column octavo pages of reading matter yearly, forming four large volumes. It presents in an inexpensive form, considering its great amount of matter, with freshness, owing to its weekly issue, and with a satisfactory completeness attempted by no other publication, the best Essays, Reviews, Criticisms, Tales, Poetry, Scientific, Biographical, Historical, and Political Information, from the entire body of Foreign Periodical Literature. A NEW SERIES Was begun January 1st, 1873, with entirely new Tales, already embracing Serial and During the coming year, as heretofore, will be given an amount, unapproached by any other periodical in the world, of the best literary and scientific matter of the day, from the pens of the above-named and other FOREMOST ESSAYISTS, NOVELISTS, SCIENTISTS, DISCOVERERS, AND EDITORS, Representing every department of knowledge and progress. The importance of "The Living Age" to every American reader, as the only complete as well as fresh compilation of a generally inaccessible but indispensable current literature-indispensable because it embraces the productions of the ablest living writers in all branches of Literature, Science, Art and Politics-is sufficiently indicated by the following OPINIONS. Has no equal in any country.-Phila. Press. Reproduces the best thoughts of the best minds of the civilized world, upon all topies of living interest.-Phila. Inquirer. 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