The Continental Monthly

Continental Monthly

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CORNELL
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY
FROM
Charles William Wason

THE
CONTINENTAL MONTHLY.
DEVOTED TO
Literature and National Policy.
VOL. II.
JULY-DECEMBER, 1862.
New York: JOHN F. TROW, 50 GREENE STREET. (FOR THE
PROPRIETORS).
1862.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by

JOHN F. TROW,
For the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the
Southern District of New York.
JOHN F. TROW,
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ENTERED, according to an Act of Congress, in the year 1882 by
JAMES B. GILMORE, in the Clerk of the Office of the District Court
of the United States for the Southern District of New-York.
JOHN A. GRAY PRINTER

The Continental Monthly:
Devoted to Literature and National Policy.

CONTENTS.----No. VII
What shall be the end? 1 Bone Ornaments, 5 The Molly O'Molly
Papers. No. V., 6 Glances from the Senate-Gallery, 10 Maccaroni and
Canvas. No. V., 14 For the Hour of Triumph, 26 In Transitu, 27
Among the Pines, 28 Was He Successful? 48 Newbern as it was and is,
58 Our Brave Times, 62 The Crisis and the Parties, 65 I Wait, 69
Taking the Census, 70 The Peloponnesus in March, 74 Adonium, 82
Polytechnic Institutes, 83 Slavery and Nobility vs. Democracy, 89
Watching the Stag, 105 Literary Notices, 106 Editor's Table, 109
SLAVERY AND NOBILITY vs. DEMOCRACY.
This article, written by a gentleman who, for fifteen years, was one of
the most prominent citizens of Texas, will be found worthy of most
attentive perusal.

WATCHING THE STAG
An unfinished Poem by FITZ-JAMES O'BRIEN, we give as it came
wet from the pen of its lamented author.

INDEX TO VOLUME II.
PAGE Among the Pines. Edmund Kirke, 28, 127 An Englishman in
South Carolina, 689 Adorium, 82 A True Romance. Isabella McFarlane,
190 A Physician's Story, 667 Astor and the Capitalists of New York. W.
Frothingham, 207 A Merchant's Story. Edmund Kirke, 232, 328, 451,
560, 719 American Student Life, 266 Author Borrowing, 285 Anthony
Trollope on America, 302 A Military Nation. Charles G. Leland, 453 A
Southern Review. Charles G. Leland, 466 Aurora. Hon. Horace
Greeley, 622
Bone Ornaments. Charles G. Leland, 5
Cambridge and its Colleges, 662 Corn is King, 237
Editor's Table, 109, 241, 369, 481, 638, 750 Eighteen Hundred and
Sixty-Two, U.S. Johnson, 442
For the Hour of Triumph, 26 Flower Arranging, 444
Glances from the Senate Gallery. G.W. Towle, 10, 154 Gold. Hon. E.J.
Walker, 743
Helter-Skelter Papers, 175 Hopeful Tackett. Richard Wolcott, 262
Huguenots of New York City. Hon. G.P. Disosway, 193 Henry Thomas
Buckle, 253
In Transitu, 27 I Wait, 69
John McDonogh. Alexander Walker, 165 John Bull to Jonathan, 265
John Neil, 295

La Vie Poetique, 679 Literary Notices, 106, 238, 866, 478, 636, 747
London Fogs and London Poor, 404
Maccaroni and Canvas. Henry P. Leland, 14, 144, 290, 383, 591
Newbern as it Was and Is. F. Kidder, 58 National Unity. Hon. Horace
Greeley, 357
On Guard. John G. Nicolay, 706 Our Brave Times, 62 Our Wounded.
C.K. Tuckerman, 465 One of the Million. Caroline Chesebro', 541
Polytechnic Institutes. Charles G. Leland, 83
Railway Photographs. Isabella McFarlane, 708 Rewarding the Army.
Charles G. Leland, 161 Reminiscences of Andrew Jackson, 318 Red,
Yellow, and Blue, 535
Slavery and Nobility _vs._ Democracy. Lorenzo Sherwood, 89
Southern Rights, 143 Sketches of the Orient. Hon. J.P. Brown, 179
Shakspeare's Richard III. Rev. E.G. Holland, 320 Shoulder Straps.
Henry Morford, 342 Sir John Suckling, 397 Southern