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THE

ATLANTIC MONTHLY.


A MAGAZINE OF

_Literature, Science, Art, and Politics_.


VOLUME XVII.

[Illustration]

BOSTON:

TICKNOR AND FIELDS,

124 TREMONT STREET.


LONDON: TRUeBNER AND COMPANY.

1866.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866,
by TICKNOR AND FIELDS,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of
Massachusetts.


UNIVERSITY PRESS:
ELECTROTYPED BY WELCH, BIGELOW, & CO.,
CAMBRIDGE.




CONTENTS.

                                                                     Page
Amazonian Picnic, An                _Mrs. Agassiz_                    313


Bad Symptoms                        _Edward Spenser_                  768

Beauty and the Beast                _Bayard Taylor_                    13

Booth, Edwin                        _E. C. Stedman_                   585


Chimney-Corner for 1866, The.
  I., II., III., IV., V., VI.       _Mrs. H. B. Stowe_      88, 214, 345,
                                                            490, 577, 737

Court-Cards                         _Charles J. Sprague_              178

Communication with the Pacific      _C. C. Coffin_                    333


Doctor Johns. XII., XIII., XIV., XV., XVI., XVII.
                                    _Donald G. Mitchell_         69, 204,
                                                      323, 466, 552, 707


English Opinion on the American War _W. M. Rossetti_                  129


Fenian "Idea," The                