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TO THE BINDER.-Title and Index of Vol. xxix, are in the middle of the last signature of this No.

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POETRY: To the Disunionists, 584; Indications, 585; An Evening Walk, 611; The Poor Man's Words to Jenny Lind, 618.

SHORT ARTICLES: Age and Wisdom, 384; Result of Kindness, 619; Miss Dix; New Books, 620.

POSTAGE.

It is our wish and intention, after the new Post Office Law shall come into operation on the first of July, to PREPAY THE POSTAGE to all our mail subscribers within 1500 miles, who have paid their subscriptions directly to the office of publication. And we mean to do this for new subscribers so paying.

Whether the Post Office Department will co-operate with us by waiving a literal compliance with the law, (which directs the subscribers themselves to prepay,) we have not been able to ascertain. But so far as we can, we shall carry out the plan of sending every man's copy to him free of postage; so as to place our distant subscribers on the same footing as those who are nearest to us—and make the whole country our neighborhood.

Such would be eminently the effect, as it would be the object, of a good law. That of which we speak is only comparatively so. Instead of being a simple, easily working plan, having only one price for letters, one price for newspapers, and one rate for other matter-it is so complicated and contradictory that it is impossible to carry it out according to its literal terms; and, as to its discrimination between distances, it is unsound in principle, (for we ought to rejoice in whatever draws more closely our distant regions,) and it will be worse than useless in practice, for it will cost more money to make the discrimination, than the discrimination will produce.

We shall have a better law before long; but may have to make it a question at the polls. In the next Presidential election it should be settled, if not by the next Congress.

11 June, 1851.

E. LITTELL & CO.

Extracts of letters from Judge Story, Chancellor Kent, and President Adams.

CAMBRIDGE, April 24, 1844. I HAVE read the prospectus with great pleasure; and entirely approve the plan. If it can only obtain the public patronage long enough, and large enough, and securely enough, to attain its true ends, it will contribute in an eminent degree to give a healthy tone, not only to our literature, but to public opinion. It will enable us to possess, in a moderate compass, a select library of the best productions of the age. It will do more: it will redeem our periodical literature from the reproach of being devoted to light and superficial reading, to transitory speculations, to sickly and ephemeral sentimentalities, and false and extravagant sketches of life and character.

JOSEPH STORY. NEW YORK, 7th May, 1844.

I APPROVE very much of the plan of the "Living Age ;" and if it be conducted with the intelligence, spirft and taste that the prospectus indicates, (of which I have no reason to doubt,) it will be one of the most instructive and popular periodicals of the day.

JAMES KENT. WASHINGTON, 27 Dec. 1845.

Or all the Periodical Journals devoted to literature and science which abound in Europe and in this country, this has appeared to me the most useful. It contains indeed the exposition only of the current literature of the English language, but this, by its immense extent and comprehension, includes a portraiture of the human mind in the utmost expansion of the present age. J. Q. ADAMS. PROSPECTUS. This work is conducted in the spirit of | now becomes every intelligent American to be inforined Littell's Museum of Foreign Literature, (which was favor- of the condition and changes of foreign countries. And ably received by the public for twenty years,) but as it is this not only because of their nearer connection with ourtwice as large, and appears so often, we not only give selves, but because the nations seem to be hastening, spirit and freshness to it by many things which were through a rapid process of change, to some new state of excluded by a month's delay, but while thus extending our things, which the merely political prophet cannot compute scope and gathering a greater and more attractive variety, or foresee. are able so to increase the solid and substantial part of our literary, historical, and political harvest, as fully to satisfy the wants of the American reader.

Geographical Discoveries, the progress of Colonization, (which is extending over the whole world,) and Voyages and Travels, will be favorite matter for our selections; and, in general, we shall systematically and very fully acquaint our readers with the great department of Foreign affairs, without entirely neglecting our own.

The elaborate and stately Essays of the Edinburgh, Quarterly, and other Reviews; and Blackwood's noble criticisms on Poetry, his keen political Commentaries, highly wrought Tales, and vivid descriptions of rural and While we aspire to make the Living Age desirable to mountain Scenery; and the contributions to Literature, all who wish to keep themselves informed of the rapid History, and Common Life, by the sagacious Spectator, progress of the movement-to Statesmen, Divines, Lawthe sparkling Examiner, the judicious Athenæum, the yers, and Physicians-to men of business and men of busy and industrious Literary Gazette, the sensible and leisure-it is still a stronger object to make it attractive comprehensive Britannia, the sober and respectable Chris- and useful to their Wives and Children. We believe that tian Observer; these are intermixed with the Military we can thus do some good in our day and generation; and Naval reminiscences of the United Service, and with and hope to make the work indispensable in every wellthe best articles of the Dublin University, New Monthly, informed family. We say indispensable, because in this Fraser's, Tait's, Ainsworth's, Hood's, and Sporting Mag-day of cheap literature it is not possible to guard against azines, and of Chambers' admirable Journal. We do not the influx of what is bad in taste and vicious in morals, consider it beneath our dignity to borrow wit and wisdom in any other way than by furnishing a sufficient supply of from Punch; and, when we think it good enough, make a healthy character. The mental and moral appetite use of the thunder of The Times. We shall increase our must be gratified. variety by importations from the continent of Europe, and from the new growth of the Rish co.onies.

The steamship has brought Europe, Asia, and Africa, into our neighborhood; and will greatly multiply our consections, as Merchants, Travellers, and Politicians, with all parts of the world; so that much more than ever it

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Clubs, paying a year in advance, will be supplied as follows:

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Complete sets, in twenty-four volumes, to the end of March, 1850, handsomely bound, packed in neat boxes, and delivered in all the principal cities, free of expense of freight, are for sale at forty-eight dollars.

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Any number may be had for 12 cents; and it may be worth while for subscribers or purchasers to complete any broken volumes they may have, and thus greatly enhance their value.

Binding. We bind the work in a uniform, strong, and good style; and where customers bring their numbers in good order, can generally give them bound volumes in exchange without any delay. The price of the binding is 50 cents a volume. As they are always bound to one pattern, there will be no difficulty in matching the future volumes.

We hope that, by "winnowing the wheat from the chaff" by providing abundantly for the imagination, and by a large collection of Biography, Voyages, and Travels, History, and more solid matter, we may produce a work which shall be popular, while at the same time it will aspire to raise the standard of public taste.

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Postage. When sent with the cover on, the Living Age consists of three sheets, and is rated as a pamphlet, at 4 cents. But when sent without the cover, it comes within the definition of a newspaper given in the law, and cannot legally be charged with more than newspaper postage, (1 cts.) We add the definition alluded to:

A newspaper is "any printed publication, issued in numbers, consisting of not more than two sheets, and published at short, stated intervals of not more than one month, conveying intelligence of passing events."

Monthly parts.-For such as prefer it in that form, the Living Age is put up in monthly parts, containing. four or five weekly numbers. In this shape it shows to great advantage in comparison with other works, containing in each part double the matter of any of the quarterlies. But we recommend the weekly numbers as fresher and fuller of life. Postage on the monthly parts is about 14 cents. The volumes are published quarterly, each volume containing as much matter as a quarterly -eview gives in eighteen months.

E. LITTELL & CO., BOSTON.

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FOR WARMING PUBLIC AND PRIVATE BUILDINGS OF ALL KINDS.

THIS is a name given to a new and improved furnace, invented by L. B. Hanks, of Hartford, Conn., and exhibited at the late Mechanics' Fair in this city. It is very unlike any furnace in common use, and possesses many new and important advantages. One is, that it is only about 34 feet in height, and is therefore available in low cellars, at the same time affording opportunity for an unusual elevation of hot air conductors immediately after they leave the brick work. Another advantage is, that the radiating surface is unusually large-about eighty feet-there being between 30 and 40 feet of cast iron flues through which the fire is made to pass, and among which the fresh air rises on its passage to the conductors, the temperature of the pipe regularly increasing upwards as the air approaches the conductors into the rooms above; and all these flues are so arranged as to be easily accessible for cleansing and other purposes. Another important improvement is a very simple arrangement by which the gas is almost entirely consumed, and at the same time made to increase the heat in the cast iron pipes.

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This Furnace is made entirely of cast iron of unusual thickness, which renders it one of the most durable furnaces in use.

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All the coal it may contain can always be seen by looking in at the "feeding door;" thus it may at once be known if the quantity and quality of the coal is as it should be.

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DAVID PROUTY & CO, BOSTON, 19 and 20 North Market Street.

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