"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."

FIFTH SERIES, VOLUME XXXIII.

FROM THE BEGINNING, VOL. CXLVIII.

JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH,
1881.

BOSTON:

LITTELL AND CO.

TABLE OF THE PRINCIPAL CONTENTS

OF

THE LIVING AGE, VOLUME CXLVIII.

THE THIRTY-THIRD QUARTERLY VOLUME OF THE FIFTH SERIES.

JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH, 1881.