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

Of desultory man, studious of change
And pleased with novelty, may be indulged."

FOURTH SERIES, VOLUME XXIV.

FROM THE BEGINNING, VOL. CXII.

JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH.

1872.

BOSTON:

LITTELL AND GAY.

TABLE OF THE PRINCIPAL CONTENTS

THE LIVING AGE, VOLUME CXII.

THE TWENTY-FOURTH QUARTERLY VOLUME OF THE FOURTH SERIES.