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thrown away."

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And pleased with Dovelty, may be indulged.”

SECOND SERIES, VOLUME XII.
FROM THE BEGINNING, VOLUME XLVIII.

JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH, 1858.

LITTELL, SON AND COMPANY:

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(AMERICAN STEREOTYPE COMPANY, 28 PHENIX BUILDING

TABLE OF THE PRINCIPAL CONTENTS

OF

THE LIVING AGE, VOLUME XLVIII.

THE TWELFTH QUARTERLY VOLUME OF THE SECOND SERIES.

JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH, 1856.

65

275

617

513 Pipes,

33

164

330

555

EDINBURGH REVIEW.

TAIT's MAGAZINE.

Henri Beyle,

641 Who are the Kings of the East ?

Mary Sutherland,

QUARTERLY REVIEW.

UNITED SERVICE MAGAZINE.

Table-Talk,

517

Henry Fielding,

705 Society at Pera,

The Zoological Gardens,

769

CHAMBERS' JOURNAL.

WESTMINSTER REVIEW.

Chess and War,

Russia and the Allies,

485 The Baby-Trooper,

German Wit: Heinrich Heine,

Lions and Lion-Hunting,

678 The Madonna Del Laghetto,

BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEW.

HOUSEHOLD WORDS.

War Policy of Great Britain,

38 The Railway Companion,

Prescott's History of Philip the Second, 449 Hospitals,

Scrooby,

NORTH BRITISH REVIEW.

Travellers' Contrivances,

Samuel Butler,

1

The Land-Shark,

A King who could do Wrong,

LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW.

BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY.

Liberia and Sierra Leone,

193

Arthur Helps,

BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE.

How I grew into an oid Maid,

Our First Lodgers,

49

Military Adventure in the Pyrenees, 541, 805

THE IDLER.

The Mad Painter,

156

325

337

365

606

785

.

257

597

735

Zaidee:- A Romance,

791

27

FRASER'S MAGAZINE.

Friends in Council Abroad,

New Metals,

Life and Works of Goethe,

Kate Coventry,

129, 232

ATHENÆUM.

144

148 Reign of Philip the Second,