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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. In 1844 Eliakim Littell started publishing "Littell's Living age", a weekly literary journal. Mostly it was excerpts from works - both magazine and books - published elsewhere. At times correspondents purported to share material, and sometimes there were bits and snatches of literary news. Trying to place this periodical in the scheme of things, I guess I would say it was a distant forerunner of periodicals like "The Reader's Digest", only with a higher literary pretension. TITLE : Littell's Living Age ISSUE : Vol. I, Fifth Series; From Beginning : Vol. CXVL, No. 1503 DATE : March 29, 1873 IMPRINT : Littell and Gay PLACE : No. 17 Bromfield St., Boston PROVENANCE : Once shelved in the personal collection of Reverend E. P. Powell (Edward Payson Powell, 1833 - 1915), graduate of Hamilton College and Union Theological Seminary. He was a Congregationalist minister, an author of books and an editorial journalist of prolific production. Powell worked in the service of Abolition and Civil Rights. He was a resident of Clinton N.Y. and Utica N.Y. Powell was a voracious subscriber to periodicals of intellectual nature. He has not signed this item, nor is a subscription mailing label affixed to the exterior. DETAILS : Weekly Periodical; pages [769] - 824 (56 pp), plus viii pp of Index for Vol. CXVI; approx. 6 1/4" x 9 1/2" ; pictorial wraps, sewn. Advertisement for "The Aldine" on rear exterior; various advertisements on insides of cover, including one for Mason and Hamlin Cabinet Organs. Just peruse the table of contents for this issue to understand the nature of this antique periodical :: ~ Oliver Cromwell - by Peter Bayne (from "Contemporary Review") ~ His Little Serene Highness (conclusion) Translated from the "Platt - Deutsch" of Fritz Reuter ~ Charles De Montalembert (From "Fraser's Magazine") -- Charles Forbes René de Montalembert (1810, in -1870) [He was a French publicist, historian, the Count of Montalembert, Deux-Sèvres, and a prominent representative of liberal Catholicism. (Thanks to Wikipedia for this) . This seems to be a review of Mrs. Oliphant's "Memoir of Count de Montalembert, published in 1872.] ~ The Parisians (Chapters 1 ? 3) - the start of a serialized novel by Lord Lytton (from "Blackwood's Magazine") ~ Sarah Martin the Dress-Maker -- (from "Chamber's Journal") ~ An Evening with Mrs. Somerville -- (from "People's Magazine") ~ Mrs. Browning's Dog Flush (from "Notes and Queries") ~ Party Colors (from "Chamber's Journal") -- About political parties ~ Kotow -- On Chinese bowing (From "Once a Week") ~ Preußen ~ "Mary's Dream" -- Poetry by S.L.P. ~ "Home Again" by W. Sawyer ~ My Study - (from "Chamber's Journal") CONDITION -- VERY GOOD -- This is a previously owned periodical that remains clean and presentable, with the following particulars noted : The bottom edge of the overlapping cover is ragged, with small tears and some loss (typical for such extended covers); there is a vertical , shallow crease running through the entire issue. On the interior are a few, various ink smudges and divers spots, none of which are especially egregious, the interior being on the whole clean and presentable. The binding is solid. A CLEAN, PRESENTABLE SPECIMEN.