The Atlantic Monthly Volume 02 No 12 October 1858 A Magazine Of

Half a dozen rivulets leap down the western declivity of the Rocky Mountains, and unite; four thousand miles away the mighty Missouri debouches into the Mexican Gulf as the resu...

Thus in these characteristics of Various Productiveness, Unity, and Openness or Publicity, the continent indicates the description of man who may be its fit habitant. It suggest...

And as nothing is so ridiculous, so, few things are so mischievous, as the sincere insincerity, the estrangement from fact, of those who have thus parted with themselves. It is...

The Literature of the New World is also worthy of the New Man. We are quite aware that a large portion of this literature is trash. So was a large part in Shakspeare's, in Cerva...

By-and-by, while he stood at the window, looking forth upon the strange scenes before him, this new heaven and new earth, the landscape became alive. The first human creature he...

"Pleasant! What do you mean by pleasant?" asked Pauline, inwardly vexed that her child had suggested the question,--and yet too just, too kindly disposed, to put the subject awa...

Adolphus took up the tray and hurried out of the room,--and forgot to fasten the door behind him until he had gone half way down the stairs. He came back in haste, and turned th...

The part played by Faustus was at first in some degree respectable, and that of a scholar. An old Erfurt Chronicle tells us that he had come to that city and obtained permission...

Mr. Hallam, in comparing Marlowe's production with Goethe's, remarks,--"The fair form of Margaret is wanting." As if this were all that was wanting! Margaret belonged, indeed, e...

In her father's lifetime, she had sought, on occasions of unwonted cheerfulness, to please him with certain charming tricks of attire; and sometimes, with only a white rose-bud...

"Stay, stay, Miss Wimple, I beseech you! I knew not what I said; forgive me, ah, forgive me!--for you are merciful, as you are pure and true. If you were aware of all, you would...

But while the Italian races were beginning their brief but brilliant career, there was in training a nobler and hardier race of seamen, from whose hands the helm would not so so...

When Carl at length became strong and commenced labor, he hoped speedily to claim his betrothed, and was waiting a favorable opportunity to obtain her father's consent to their...

The notes of the Song-Sparrow would not entitle him to be ranked among our principal singing-birds, were it not for the remarkable variations of his song, in which respect he is...

But what do we care about his power of learning artificial music? Even if he could be taught to perform like a _maestro_, this would not enhance his value as a minstrel of the w...

"You are a pretty fellow to talk about catching a dragon, Brad!" retorted Mark, a little nettled at the tone in which Bradford spoke of him,--"you can't even catch a shiner!"--a...

"_October_ 3.--Ah, why was I so foolish? Why did I not go when I saw the danger so clearly, instead of cheating myself into the belief that there was none? Would that I had neve...

I used very often, when coming home from my morning's work at one of the public institutions of Paris, to stop in at the dear old church of St. Etienne du Mont. The tomb of St....

Upset his alcohol lamp,--he said,--and spilt the alcohol on his legs. That was it.--But what had he been doing to get his head into such a state?--had he really committed an exc...

My laughing and winking young friend undertook to procure and arrange the flowers for the table, and did it with immense zeal. I never saw him look happier than when he came in,...

It is scarcely possible to repress a smile in reading this work and discovering the patient care with which M. Cousin avoids speaking of the "Provinciales." And it is strange to...