This is the 4 November 1848 complete issue of the Boston weekly Littell's Living Age. A good copy neatly rescued by me the other day from an old and damaged bound volume of the magazine. A few harmless brown spots to the text.
See photo #2 for complete contents.
47 pages.
Some highlights I find include:
The issue opens with an extended essay (15 pages) by William King (the 1st Earl of Lovelace) in review of Adolphe Thiers' classic History of Napoleon's Empire, volumes 5, 6 & 7. It would eventually reach 20 volumes. Thiers, both a distinguished historian and politician, would much later be elected to the French Presidency, at age 74, in 1871. See photo #2 for the opening page of the essay.
The opening two chapters of the able Harriet Martineau's serial novel Feats of the Fiord: A Story of Norway. 10 pages.
Poet Charles Wooley's fine new poem, The Robin Redbreast's Chorus. See photo #3.
An article of some interest on the construction of the notable Conway Tube Bridge in England. It had just opened.
Some author identifications above are drawn from the Wellesley Index.