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THE

ATLANTIC MONTHLY

A MAGAZINE OF

_Literature, Science, Art, and Politics._


VOLUME XVI.

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BOSTON:
TICKNOR AND FIELDS,
124 TREMONT STREET.

LONDON: TRUeBNER AND COMPANY.

1865.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by TICKNOR AND
FIELDS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of
Massachusetts.

PRINTED BY
S. Chism,--Franklin Printing House,
112 Congress Street, Boston.

ELECTROTYPED BY WELCH, BIGELOW, & CO.,
CAMBRIDGE.




CONTENTS.

                                                                      Page
Assassination                           _C. C. Hazewell_                85

Bentham, Jeremy                         _John Neal_                    575
Blackwood, William                      _John Neal_                    660
Books for our Children                  _Samuel Osgood_                724
Bright, John, and the English Radicals  _G. W. Towle_                  177

Candle-Ends, A Paper of                 _Charles J. Sprague_            61
Chicago Conspiracy, The                                                108
Chimney-Corner, The                     _Mrs. H. B. Stowe_   100, 232, 347,
                                                             419, 567, 672
Clemency and Common Sense               _Charles Sumner_               745
Coupon Bonds                            _J. T. Trowbridge_        257, 399

Deep-Sea Damsels                        _G. W. Hosmer_                  77
Doctor Johns                            _Donald G. Mitchell_       66, 211,
                                                        300, 457, 546, 713
Down the River                          _Harriet E. Prescott_          468

Edgeworths, A Visit to the              _Mrs. John Farrar_             356
Electric Telegraph, The Progress of the _George B. Prescott_           605
Ellen                            _Author of "Life in the Iron-Mills"_   22

Forge, The                                                        586, 684

Gettysburg, The Field of                _J. T. Trowbridge_             616
Griffith Gaunt: or, Jealousy            _Charles Reade_                641

Hamilton, Alexander                     _C. C. Hazewell_               625
Honey-Makers, Among the                 _Harriet E. Prescott_          129

Jelly-Fishes, Mode of Catching          _A. Agassiz_                   736
Jordan, John                            _Edmund Kirke_                 434

King James the First                    _Gail Hamilton_                701

Libraries, The Visible and Invisible in _Mrs. R. C. Waterston_         525
Luck of Abel Steadman, The       _Author of "Life in the Iron-Mills"_  331

Militia System, Our Future              _T. W. Higginson_              371
Mull, Around                            _Maria S. Cummins_         11, 167

Needle and Garden                                        47, 185, 283, 419
New Art Critic, A                       _Eugene Benson_                325

Old Shoes, On a Pair of                 _Charles J. Sprague_           360

Procter, Adelaide Anne                  _Charles Dickens_              739

Reconstruction and <DW64> Suffrage       _E. P. Whipple_                238
"Running at the Heads"                                                 342

St. John's River, Up the                _T. W. Higginson_              311
St. Petersburg, Winter Life in          _Bayard Taylor_                 34
Saints who have had Bodies              _G. Reynolds_                  385
"Saul," The Author of                   _Bayard Taylor_                412
Scientific Farming                      _Gail Hamilton_                290
Second Capture, My                      _W. W. Wiltbank_               195
Silent Friend, Letter to a                                             221
Strategy at the Fireside                _Epes Sargent_                 151

Toepffer, Rodolphe                       _Mrs. H. M. Fletcher_          556

Why the Putkammer Castle was destroyed  _Robert Dale Owen_             513
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship        _D. A. Wasson_            273, 448

Young Housekeeper, Letter to a          _C. P. Hawes_                  535
Young Men in History                    _E.