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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117,?by Various

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Title: The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867.
Author: Various
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Language: English
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THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY.
A MAGAZINE OF
Literature, Science, Art, and Politics.
VOLUME XX.
[Illustration]
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 moved to the end of the article.
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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 Negro 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 Chaillu's Journey to Ashango-Land 122
Emerson's May-Day and Other Pieces 376
Half-Tints 256
Holland's Kathrina 762
Hoppin's Old England 127
Hymns by Harriet McEwen Kimball 128
Jean Ingelow's Story of Doom, and other Poems 383
Lea's Historical Sketch of Sacerdotal Celibacy in the Christian Church 378
Literary Life of James K. Paulding, The 124
Memoirs and Correspondence of Madame R��camier 127
Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty 120
Morris's Life and Death of Jason 640
Morse on the Poem "Rock me to Sleep, Mother" 252
Norton's Translation of The New Life of Dante 638
Parsons's Deus Homo 512
Parsons's Translation of the Inferno 759
Paulding's The Bulls and the Jonathans 639
Purnell's Literature and its