Littell's Living Age was a magazine comprising selections from various British and American magazines and newspapers. Generally, this magazine was published on a weekly basis, and was in print from 1844-1941.

Excerpt from Littell's Living Age, 1865 The 'result of the different conditions under which the colonies of the nations of Europe were planted and governed is sufficiently striking. The Spaniards and Portuguese of America, of pure blood, now hardly equal in number the people of the little kingdom 'of Portugal. The French colonists hardly amount to the poor fraction of a seventieth part of the population of France, and live under a foreign rule, while the English colonists equal in number the population of the parent land that sent them forth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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