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THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY.


A MAGAZINE OF

_Literature, Science, Art, and Politics._

VOLUME XX.

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BOSTON: TICKNOR AND FIELDS, 124 TREMONT STREET.

1867.


Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by

TICKNOR AND FIELDS,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of
Massachusetts.

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

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Transcriber's note: Minor typos have been corrected. Footnotes have been
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CONTENTS.


                                                        Page

Artist's Dream, An  _T. W. Higginson_               100

Autobiography of a Quack, The. I., II.              466, 586

Bornoo, A Native of                                 485

Bowery at Night, The  _Charles Dawson Shanly_       602

By-Ways of Europe. From Perpignan to Montserrat.
  _Bayard Taylor_                                   495

    "        "     A Visit to the Balearic Islands. I.
  _Bayard Taylor_                                   680

Busy Brains  _Austin Abbott_                        570

Canadian Woods and Waters  _Charles Dawson Shanly_  311

Cincinnati  _James Parton_                          229

Conspiracy at Washington, The                       633

Cretan Days  _Wm. J. Stillman_                      533

Dinner Speaking  _Edward Everett Hale_              507

Doctor Molke  _Dr. I. I. Hayes_                      43

Edisto, Up the  _T. W. Higginson_                   157

Foster, Stephen C., and <DW64> Minstrelsy
  _Robert P. Nevin_                                 608

Fugitives from Labor  _F. Sheldon_                  370

Grandmother's Story: The Great Snow                 716

Gray Goth, In the  _Miss E. Stuart Phelps_          559

Great Public Character, A  _James Russell Lowell_   618

Growth, Limitations, and Toleration of Shakespeare's Genius
  _E. P. Whipple_                                   178

Guardian Angel, The. VII., VIII., IX., X., XI., XII.
  _Oliver Wendell Holmes_    1, 129, 257, 385, 513, 641

Hospital Memories. I., II.
  _Miss Eudora Clark_                          144, 324

International Copyright  _James Parton_             430

Jesuits in North America, The  _George E. Ellis_    362

Jonson, Ben  _E. P. Whipple_                        403

Longfellow's Translation of Dante's Divina Commedia 188

Liliput Province, A  _W. Winwood Reade_             247

Literature as an Art  _T. W. Higginson_             745

Little Land of Appenzell, The  _Bayard Taylor_      213

Minor Elizabethan Dramatists  _E. P. Whipple_       692

Minor Italian Travels  _W. D. Howells_              337

Mysterious Personage, A  _John Neal_                658

Opinions of the late Dr. Nott, respecting Books, Studies and Orators
  _E. D. Sanborn_                                   527

Pacific Railroads, Our  _J. K. Medbery_             704

Padua, At  _W. D. Howells_                           25

Passage from Hawthorne's English Note-Books, A       15

Piano in the United States, The  _James Parton_      82

Poor Richard. II., III.  _Henry James, Jr._     32, 166

Prophetic Voices about America. A Monograph
  _Charles Sumner_                                  275

Religious Side of the Italian Question, The
  _Joseph Mazzini_                                  108

Rose Rollins, The. I., II.  _Alice Cary_       420, 545

Sunshine and Petrarch  _T. W. Higginson_            307

Struggle for Life, A  _T. B. Aldrich_                56

"The Lie"  _C. J. Sprague_                          598

Throne of the Golden Foot, The  _J. W. Palmer_      453

T. Adolphus Trollope, Writings of
  _H. T. Tuckerman_                                 476

Tour in the Dark, A                                 670

Uncharitableness                                    415

Visit to Sybaris, My  _Edward Everett Hale_          63

Week's Riding, A                                    200

What we Feel  _C. J. Sprague_                       740

Wife by Wager, A   _E. H. House_                    350

Workers in Silver, Among the  _James Parton_        729

Young Desperado, A  _T. B. Aldrich_                 755


POETRY.

Are the Children at Home?  _Mrs. M. E. M. Sangster_ 557

Autumn Song, An  _Edgar Fawcett_                    679

Blue and the Gray, The  _F. M. Finch_               369

Chanson without Music  _Oliver Wendell Holmes_      543

Dirge for a Sailor  _George H. Boker_               157

Ember-Picture, An  _James Russell Lowell_            99

Feast of Harvest, The  _E. C. Stedman_              616

Flight of the Goddess, The  _T. B. Aldrich_         452

Freedom in Brazil  _John G. Whittier_                62

Lost Genius, The  _J. J. Piatt_                     228

Mona's Mother  _Alice Cary_                          22

Mystery of Nature, The  _Theodore Tilton_           349

Nightingale in the Study, The
  _James Russell Lowell_                            323

Sonnet  _George H. Boker_                           744

Themistocles  _William Everett_                     398

The Old Story  _Alice Cary_                         199

Toujours Amour  _E. C. Stedman_                     728


REVIEWS AND LITERARY NOTICES.

Browne's Land of Thor                                    256

Charlevoix's History of New France                       125

Codman's Ten Months in Brazil                            383

Cozzens's Sayings of Doctor Bushwhacker
  and other Learned Men                                  512

Critical and Social Essays, from the New York "Nation"   384

Dall's (Mrs.) The College, the Market, and the Court     255

Du Chaill